News — MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

Thu, August 10, 2017

Ultracold molecules hold promise for quantum computing

Researchers have taken an important step toward the long-sought goal of a quantum computer, which in theory should be capable of vastly faster computations than conventional computers, for certain kinds of problems. The new work shows that collections of ultracold molecules can retain the information stored in them, for hundreds of times longer than researchers have previously achieved in these materials.

Fri, April 21, 2017

Prof Kleppner wins APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research

News type: Awards Community News

Wed, February 15, 2017

High-res biomolecule imaging

Technique could provide unique views of single molecules that conventional methods can’t match.

News type: Research Highlights

Thu, May 26, 2016

DAMOP CUA Billiards

Thu, March 24, 2016

Two CUA faculty win prestigious NSSEFF Fellowships

Hongkun Park and Wolfgang Ketterle have been chosen as the 2016 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows,

News type: Awards

Wed, January 20, 2016

CUA researchers selected as 2015 Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters published their 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers. It includes 8 physicists at Harvard and MIT, three of which are CUA researchers (Misha Lukin, Martin Zwierlein, Wolfgang Ketterle).

News type: Awards Community News

Mon, August 31, 2015

School of Science announces 2015 Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education

Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, was awarded a prize for graduate education for his courses 8.421 (Atomic and Optical Physics) and 8.422 (Atomic and Optical Physics II).

News type: Awards Community News

Fri, July 31, 2015

Kang-Kuen Ni wins Beckman Young Investigator Award

The 19th ICOLS conference takes place June 8-12 in Hokkaido, Japan, with CUA representation. Vladan Vuletic will report on a joint MIT-Harvard CUA experiment with Mikhail Lukin on switching of light with light using pulses containing only a few hundred photons. For a readable explanation of how to make light interact with light see the...

News type: Awards Community News

Wed, January 21, 2015

Kang-Kuen Ni wins AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award

The 19th ICOLS conference takes place June 8-12 in Hokkaido, Japan, with CUA representation. Vladan Vuletic will report on a joint MIT-Harvard CUA experiment with Mikhail Lukin on switching of light with light using pulses containing only a few hundred photons. For a readable explanation of how to make light interact with light see the...

News type: Awards Community News

Sun, January 11, 2015

CUA Retreat

The first (ever!) CUA Retreat was a great success, with many scientific talks and poster presentations

News type: Community News