Speaker
Joseph Takach
(UC Berkeley)
Description
Despite the possibility of the axion field being in a non-classical state, observing its intrinsically quantum features in a realistic detector is prohibitively difficult. I will discuss the necessary formalism to calculate potentially non-classical statistics of a quantum continuous measurement record, and I will demonstrate the two leading effects that wash out the non-classical statistics: a realistic detector's coarse graining over many axion field modes, and severe suppression of these statistics by increasing powers of the detection efficiency.
Author
Joseph Takach
(UC Berkeley)