MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA): a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center

Photons are inherently fast and do not readily couple to the environment, making them ideal carriers of quantum information. The usefulness of photons has been demonstrated in quantum computing, quantum communication, precision measurement, and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics, but it is still a challenge to create photonic quantum sources with just the right properties...

Between 2020 and 2021 a student-led CUA community service steering committee, Engage CUA, was formed. It was born out of efforts related to and following ShutdownSTEM, beginning as a regular meeting to discuss research on important topics around increasing diversity.  The primary goal is to organize and track outreach efforts. In the past year, CUA members...