Kjetil Børkje

Professor
Department of Science and Industry systems
Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences
Campus Kongsberg

Responsibilities

I am a member of the Quantum Technology research group.

Research interests:

  • Quantum effects at meso- and macroscopic scales 
  • Entanglement witnesses and other measures of nonclassicality
  • Quantum optomechanics
  • Superconducting quantum circuits
  • Many-particle systems and quantum field theory

CV

Experience

  • 2018-              Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway
  • 2017-2018       Professor, University College of Southeast Norway
  • 2017-2017       Associate professor, University College of Southeast Norway
  • 2015-2016       Associate professor, Royal Norwegian Naval Academy
  • 2014-2015       Postdoc, University of Oslo
  • 2012-2014       Postdoc, Niels Bohr Institute
  • 2009-2012      Postdoc, Yale University

Education

  • 2008     PhD, physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • 2003     Siv.ing. (MSc), physics and mathematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Publications

Selected publications

  • Single-photon optomechanics,
    A. Nunnenkamp, K. Børkje, S. M. Girvin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 063602 (2011)
  • Proposal for entangling remote micromechanical oscillators via optical measurements,
    K. Børkje, A. Nunnenkamp, S. M. Girvin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 123601 (2011)
  • Cooling and squeezing via quadratic optomechanical coupling,
    A. Nunnenkamp, K. Børkje, J. G. E. Harris, S. M. Girvin, Phys. Rev. A 82, 021806 (2010)
  • Signatures of nonlinear cavity optomechanics in the weak coupling regime,
    K. Børkje, A. Nunnenkamp, J. D. Teufel, S. M. Girvin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 053603 (2013)
  • Ground state cooling of mechanical motion in the unresolved sideband regime by use of optomechanically induced transparency,
    T. Ojanen, K. Børkje, Phys. Rev. A 90, 013824 (2014) 
  • Heterodyne photodetection measurements on cavity optomechanical systems: Interpretation of sideband asymmetry and limits to a classical explanation,
    K. Børkje, Phys. Rev. A 94, 043816 (2016)

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