Biography:

Dr Sanjukta Roy is a Scientist (Principal Investigator) at Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. Her research is focused on Quantum Technologies using ultra-cold Rydberg atoms, Quantum Simulation with ultra-cold Quantum Mixtures in optical potentials, Spin correlation spectroscopy and Few-body physics. She obtained her PhD from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, where she realised India's first Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). She did her Post-doctoral work at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, in the Lab of Claude Cohen- Tannoudji (Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1997) where she worked on metastable He BEC experiment. She did her subsequent Post-Doctoral research at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy, where she worked on experiments on Efimov physics with ultra-cold atoms and 3D Anderson localisation of matter waves in disordered potentials. She has won several awards and honours: the DST award for attending the Lindau Nobel laureates meeting, a Letter of appreciation from the Prime Minister of India for indigenously realising the first Bose-Einstein condensate in India and Outstanding Reviewer awards (2016 and 2019) from IOP Publishing, UK.

Lecture: "Ultracold atoms and Quantum Gases"

In this lecture, I will give an introduction to the physics of ultra-cold atoms and Quantum gases and experimental methods for their realisation in the Laboratory. Ultra-cold Rydberg atoms and Quantum gases in optical traps are highly controllable systems which offer a versatile platform for Quantum Technology applications such as Quantum computing and Quantum sensing. I will give an overview of Quantum Technologies with cold Rydberg atoms and Quantum gas mixtures in the final part of this lecture.