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

Kang-Kuen Ni Wins 2019 I.I. Rabi Prize in AMO Physics

http://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/kang-kuen-ni-wins-2019-i-i-rabi-prize-in-amo-physics/

New approach yields long-lasting configurations that could provide long-sought “qubit” material. – MIT News

http://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/ultracold-molecules-hold-promise-for-quantum-computing/

CUA researchers and MIT lab Li-7 (BEC 5) are featured on Mashable.com. The video details how recent technology allows us to finally test Albert Einstein’s theories.

http://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/cua-researchers-featured-on-mashable-video-these-scientists-are-proving-einstein-wrong/

MIT researchers have come up with an approach to create BECs in a fraction of the time

http://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/bose-einstein-condensation-in-the-blink-of-an-eye/

Kang-Kuen Ni Wins I.I. Rabi Prize

Ultracold molecules in quantum computing

These scientists are proving Einstein wrong

New Atomic Laser Cooling Technique

CUA Seminars

Tue February 5, 2019 4:00 pm

Manuel Endres

Location:MIT 4-270

Manuel Endres, Caltech

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CUA Seminar Series

Recent Publications

R. Schmidt, E. Demler, O. Cotlet, F. Pientka, G. Zarand, and A. Imamoglu. Transport of neutral optical excitations using electric fields. ArXiv March 2018.
E. Demler, Y. Ashida, T. Shi, M. Carmen Bañuls,, and J. I. Cirac. Variational principle for quantum impurity systems in and out of equilibrium: application to Kondo problems. Phys Rev B, 98(024103), July 2018.
E. Demler, Y. Ashida, T. Shi, M. Carmen Bañuls, J. I. Cirac, and . Solving quantum impurity problems in and out of equilibrium with variational approach. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 121(026805), July 2018.
M. Kanasz-Nagy, S. Foelling, E. Demler, Y. Ashida, T. Shi, C. Pascu Moca, T. N. Ikeda, J. I. Cirac, and G. Zaránd. Exploring the Kondo model in and out of equilibrium with alkaline-earth atoms. Phys Rev B, 97(155156), April 2018.

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Outreach Events

Fri April 20, 2018 2:00 pm

CUA Cambridge Science Festival, 2018

Location:MIT 26-214 and 26-210

At extremely low temperatures, the fundamental building blocks of the universe behave unexpectedly. Discover this hidden world at The Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA).

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Upcoming Events

Tue February 19, 2019 4:00 pm

Christophe Salomon: Dual Bose-Fermi Superfluids

Location:MIT 4-370 (Note the different room!)

Christophe Salomon, Ecole Normale Supérieure

Ten Minute Talk:"Energy and Short-Range Correlations of Bose Polarons" by Zoe Ziyue Yan

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CUA Seminar Series

Tue February 26, 2019 4:00 pm

Benjamin Lev: Many-body cavity QED with multimode resonators

Location:Harvard Jefferson 250

Ben Lev, Stanford

Ten Minute Talk:"TBD" by Akira Sone

We will present our first experiments involving multimode cavity QED, wherein the cavity-mediated atom-atom interaction is dramatically modified compared to that in a single-mode cavity. We demonstrate the engineering of strong, tunable-range, and sign-changing photon-mediated interactions between atoms and between atomic spins. A mechanism for photon-mediated interactions based on the Gouy phases of the cavity...

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CUA Seminar Series

Tue March 5, 2019 4:00 pm