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Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar: Mikael Backlund (UIUC Chemistry) "Quantum-inspired super-resolution for various tasks in single-molecule fluorescence microscopy"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Physics Department
Location
3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Date
Oct 16, 2023   1:30 pm  
Speaker
Mikael Backlund
Contact
Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail
bkoebbe@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Physics - Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar

Photons are precious in single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. As such, over the past couple decades the single-molecule community has embraced concepts from classical estimation and detection theory to optimize information recovered from each detected photon. Recent work in our group and others have shown that a quantum theoretic framework for estimation and detection provides even more fundamental insights by facilitating additional optimization over all possible measurements allowed by quantum mechanics. In this talk I will present my group’s recent experimental and theoretical progress in this area.

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