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Associate Professor
Vivishek Sudhir
- Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professorship
- Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Interests
- Quantum measurements and control
- Quantum optics
- Gravitational physics
Professor Sudhir News + Media
With a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose
Clocks, lasers, and other oscillators could be tuned to super-quantum precision, allowing researchers to track infinitesimally small differences in time, according to a new study by Assistant Professor Vivishek Sudhir and graduate student Hudson Loughlin.
Physicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
A new approach by co-author Vivishek Sudhircould make it possible to detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions of years.
Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to a near standstill, using LIGO’s precise measurements of its 40-kilogram mirrors. Shown here are LIGO optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors.
Faculty Details
Education
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2011
Imperial College London
MRes -
2016
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
PhD
MIT Service
- Graduate admissions committee (2019 - present)
- Department UROP coordinator (2021 - present)
- Undergraduate committee (2021 - present)
- Faculty advisor of MIT Technique (2023 - present)
Teaching
- 2.004 Dynamics and Control (2020 - present)
- 2.S982 Quantum Machines in a Classical World (2022 - present)
Publications
Selected publications:
- Active laser cooling of a centimeter-scale torsional oscillator, Optica (2025)
- Distinguishable Consequence of Classical Gravity on Quantum Matter, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2025)
- Exceptional-Point Sensors Offer No Fundamental Signal-to-Noise Ratio Enhancement, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2024)
- Quantum noise and its evasion in feedback oscillators, Nature Comm. (2023)
- Unification of Thermal and Quantum Noises in Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2023)
- Thermorefringent noise in crystalline optical materials, Phys. Rev. D (2023)
- Limits and prospects for long-baseline optical fiber interferometry, Optica (2022)
- Acceleration-Induced Effects in Stimulated Light-Matter Interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2022)
- Approaching the motional ground state of a 10-kg object, Science (2021)
- Bell correlations between light and vibration at ambient conditions, Science Adv. (2020)
- Preparation and Decay of a Single Quantum of Vibration at Ambient Conditions, Phys. Rev. X (2019)
- Sub-hertz optomechanically induced transparency with a kilogram-scale mechanical oscillator, Phys. Rev. A (2019)
- Quantum Limits on Measurement and Control of a Mechanical Oscillator, Springer (2018)
- Quantum Correlations of Light from a Room-Temperature Mechanical Oscillator, Phys. Rev. X (2017)
- Appearance and Disappearance of Quantum Correlations in Measurement-Based Feedback Control of a Mechanical Oscillator, Phys. Rev. X (2017)
- Measurement-based control of a mechanical oscillator at its thermal decoherence rate, Nature (2015)
(see Google Scholar for full list)