Engineers interactions among laser-cooled atoms to study quantum many-body behavior and create entanglement that can improve the precision of atomic measurements and clocks.
MacArthur FoundationStanford UniversitySchleier-Smith makes collective quantum behavior experimentally controllable. Her work uses light to mediate interactions between atoms, allowing researchers to tune how information and correlations spread through an atomic ensemble. The same ability to engineer entanglement supports both quantum simulation and improved measurement. She belongs in this directory for research that links those purposes: learning how complex quantum systems behave while developing methods to extract more precise information from them.
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Entanglement for more precise measurement
Schleier-Smith has developed experiments that generate and measure entanglement in atomic ensembles. By preparing spin-squeezed states, this work reduces measurement noise and supports atomic timekeeping beyond the standard limit for independent particles.
Experimental researcher credited by MacArthur for entanglement and spin-squeezing work.
Source-supported recordMacArthur Foundation - Year not documented
Tunable interactions in atomic ensembles
Her group uses photons to control long-range interactions among trapped atoms. These experiments provide ways to investigate many-body dynamics, including the scrambling of quantum information, in systems whose interactions can be deliberately adjusted.
Leader of the Stanford group conducting the atomic-interaction experiments.
Source-supported recordStanford UniversityMacArthur Foundation
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Entanglement for more precise measurement
Monika Schleier-Smith
Supports: Institutional account of spin squeezing, light-mediated atomic interactions and quantum-information scrambling.
Published 6 Oct 2020 · Checked 19 Sept 2026Credit & limits: Experimental researcher credited by MacArthur for entanglement and spin-squeezing work.
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| Entanglement for more precise measurementDate not documented | Institutional recordMonika Schleier-Smith Institutional account of spin squeezing, light-mediated atomic interactions and quantum-information scrambling. Published 6 Oct 2020 · Checked 19 Sept 2026 | Experimental researcher credited by MacArthur for entanglement and spin-squeezing work. |
| Tunable interactions in atomic ensemblesDate not documented | Institutional recordMonika Schleier-Smith Current associate professorship and optical control of atomic interactions for simulation and metrology. Checked 19 Sept 2026Institutional recordMonika Schleier-Smith Institutional account of spin squeezing, light-mediated atomic interactions and quantum-information scrambling. Published 6 Oct 2020 · Checked 19 Sept 2026 | Leader of the Stanford group conducting the atomic-interaction experiments. |
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Monika Schleier-Smith
Current associate professorship and optical control of atomic interactions for simulation and metrology.
Checked 19 Sept 2026 - MacArthur FoundationInstitutional record
Monika Schleier-Smith
Institutional account of spin squeezing, light-mediated atomic interactions and quantum-information scrambling.
Published 6 Oct 2020 · Checked 19 Sept 2026