Morgan Mitchell

Morgan Mitchell is ICREA Professor at ICFO (Institute of Photonic Sciences) in Castelldefels (Barcelona). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Physics with a minor in Philosophy from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has done postdoctoral stays with Serge Haroche’s group (Nobel in Physics 2012) at the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel in Paris, and in the group of Aephraim Steinberg at the University of Toronto. He has made foundational contributions to quantum sensing, including the first uses of squeezed light and squeezed atomic spins in magnetometry, and the first magnetic sensor to demonstrate an energy resolution per bandwidth beyond the quantum of action ℏ. His contributions to quantum metrology include the first use of multi-photon entangled states for a super-resolving measurement, and protocols enabling optical atomic clocks to operate beyond the shot-noise limit.