Atomic Quantum Engineering for Fundamental Physics

How can we harness progress in quantum control to advance understanding of fundamental physics? I will describe experiments motivated by two complementary paradigms: quantum simulation and precision measurement. Inspired by toy models for information scrambling in black holes, we have engineered a cold-atom quantum simulator wherein photons mediate non-local interactions conducive to efficiently spreading quantum information across many degrees of freedom. These same interactions can enable massively parallel generation of correlated atom pairs, a resource for approaching fundamental quantum limits in precision sensing.