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 October 22, 2019 4:00 pm

CUA Triple Feature

Location:Harvard Jefferson 250

Richard Fletcher

Paul Jepsen

Ralf Riedinger, Harvard

Richard Fletcher, Zwierlein group Geometric squeezing into the lowest Landau level One consequence of life in a rotating frame is that translations along orthogonal spatial directions no longer commute, and time-evolution under a scalar potential corresponds to a geometric transformation of the original spatial distribution. We demonstrate geometric squeezing of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate down...

More Info »

Event type:

CUA Seminar Series

Recent Publications

J. Marino, N. Yao, M. Lukin, E. Demler, and B. Zhu. Dicke time crystals in driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems. New Journal of Physics July 2019.
T. Andersen, B. Dwyer, J. Sanchez-Yamagishi, J. Rodriguez-Nieva, K. Agarwal, E. Demler, H. Park, M. Lukin, K. Wantanbe, T. Taniguchi, and P. Kim. Electron-phonon instability in graphene revealed by global and local noise probes. Science, 364(6436), April 2019.
A. Omran, H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, G. Semeghini, S. Ebadi, H. Bernien, A. Zibrov, H. Pichler, S. Choi, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, T. T. Wang, J. Cui, M. Rossignolo, P. Rembold, S. Montangero, and T. Calarco. Generation and manipulation of Schrödinger cat states in Rydberg atom arrays. Science August 2019.
S. Yelin, E. Kuznetsova, S. Rittenhouse, I. I . Beterov, and M. O. Scully. Effective spin-spin interactions in bilayers of Rydberg atoms and polar molecules. Phys. Rev. Lett. October 2018.

View All Publications »

Outreach Events

Mon May 20, 2019 4:00 pm

The New Kilogram

Location:10-250

Wolfgang Ketterle

On May 20, the definitions for the units of mass, charge, temperature and mole will change. This is a major change in the international system of units, eliminating all man-made objects from these definitions. This talk will provide some historical background and motivation for defining fundamental base units. However, the main focus of the talk...

Event type: