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 April 23, 2019 4:00 pm

Boris Svistunov: When Charge Quantization Leads to the Halon Effect

Location:Harvard Jefferson 250

Boris Svistunov, UMass Amherst

Ten Minute Talk:"TBD" by Parth Patel

Under certain circumstances, a quasiparticle (or a static impurity) with a sharply defined integer particle charge becomes the so-called halon: It features a bimodal spatial charge distribution, with a small core and a halo of an arbitrarily large—critically divergent—size. I will discuss two distinctively different types of halons. The first type takes place at the...

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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 19, 2019 2:00 pm

CUA Cambridge Science Festival Workshop, 2019

Location:MIT 26-210 and 26-214

Ben Augenbaum

Simone Colombo

Joyce Kwan

Şukru Furkan Öztürk, Harvard

Martin W. Zwierlein

Edwin Pedrozo

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Join CUA members to learn hands-on about some of the research that goes on in the CUA! Activities include a gum-drop model Ion Trap, a 6-foot Tornado Simulator, experiments with Liquid Nitrogen to see how ultracold temperatures change everyday objects, and a station to make your own holograms. The event will kick off with a...

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Upcoming Events

Tue April 30, 2019 4:00 pm

Lorenza Viola – Qubit sensors in correlated noise environments: from noisy quantum metrology suto quantum noise spectroscopy

Location:MIT 4-270

Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth

Ten Minute Talk:"TBD" by Florentin Reiter

Qubit systems offer unique opportunities for sensing and estimation. On the one hand, the use of entangled qubit states can yield measurement precision that exceeds the optimal bounds achievable classically. On the other hand, the exquisite sensitivity of qubits to their surrounding environment makes them natural spectrometers of their own noise. In this talk, I will present recent results on...

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CUA Seminar Series

Tue May 7, 2019 4:00 pm