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Tue November 13, 2007 4:00 pm

Bose-Einstein condensation meets Cavity QED

Location:26-214

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED) has proven to be exceedingly successful in illuminating matter-light interaction and in providing a platform to test ideas for quantum information processing. In this talk I will report on the strong coupling of a Bose-Einstein condensate to the quantized field of an ultrahigh-finesse optical cavity. The experiment brings us into a conceptually new regime of cavity QED where all atoms occupy a single mode of a matter-wave field and couple identically to the light, sharing a single excitation.

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