New Windows on Fundamental Physics: from tabletop devices to large scale detectors

Session

Tuesday Afternoon I

20 Jan 2026, 14:00

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre (University of Manchester)

Conveners

Tuesday Afternoon I

• Lucien Heurtier (King's College London)

28. QI (Quantum-enhanced Interferometry for new physics)

Hartmut Grote

20/01/2026, 14:00

35. Dark energy and modified gravity with levitated sensors

Sofia Qvarfort

20/01/2026, 14:30

Testing modified gravity is essential for probing physics beyond general relativity and for constraining light scalar fields motivated by dark energy. In this talk, I will outline theory calculations which show how levitated cavity optomechanical systems operated in high vacuum can function as sensitive quantum probes of short-range deviations from Newtonian gravity. Focusing on Yukawa-type...