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Tue, October 15, 2013

Cambridge-Connecticut AMO Open House

Open House talks

News type: Community News

Wed, September 25, 2013

Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter

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: CUA in the News

Fri, September 13, 2013

Professor Markus Greiner receives the junior BEC Award 2013

A research collaboration including CUA investigators at Harvard.

News type: Awards

Thu, July 4, 2013

MIT researchers build an all-optical transistor

To recognize and encourage outstanding research in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics by investigators who have held a Ph. D. for 10 years or less. The prize consists of $7,500 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. An allowance will be provided for travel expenses of the recipient to the Society meeting...

News type: CUA in the News

Mon, April 1, 2013

Matthew Nichols wins NDSEG Fellowship

The Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) has named Martin Zwierlein, an MIT assistant professor of physics, as one of its 17 new Young Investigators.

News type: Awards

Tue, January 15, 2013

The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics awarded to Susanne Yelin

This meeting will celebrate Professor Daniel Kleppner’s career of fundamental contributions in physics. An outstanding list of invited speakers will present the most recent and interesting topics in atomic physics.

News type: Awards

Tue, January 1, 2013

Keldysh Approach for Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions in Quantum Optics: Beyond the Dicke Model in Optical Cavities

We investigated nonequilibrium phase transitions for driven atomic ensembles interacting with a cavity mode and coupled to a Markovian dissipative bath. In the thermodynamic limit and at low frequencies, we showed that the distribution function of the photonic mode was thermal, with an effective temperature set by the atom-photon interaction strength. That behavior characterized the...

News type: Research Highlights

Tue, January 1, 2013

Dissipative Preparation of Spin Squeezed Atomic Ensembles in a Steady State

We presented and analyzed an approach for the generation of atomic spin-squeezed states. Our method involved the collective coupling of an atomic ensemble to a decaying mode of an open optical cavity. We demonstrated the existence of a collective atomic dark state, decoupled from the radiation field. Through the explicit construction of that state we...

News type: Research Highlights

Tue, January 1, 2013

Nanometer-scale Thermometry in a Living Cell

Sensitive probing of temperature variations on nanometre scales is an outstanding challenge in many areas of modern science and technology. In particular, a thermometer capable of subdegree temperature resolution over a large range of temperatures as well as integration within a living system could provide a powerful new tool in many areas of biological, physical...

News type: Research Highlights

Tue, January 1, 2013

Timekeeping with Electronic Spin States in Diamond

Frequency standards based on atomic states, such as Rb or Cs vapors, or single-trapped ions, are the most precise measures of time. We proposed and analyzed a precision oscillator approach based upon spins in a solid-state system, in particular, the nitrogen-vacancy defect in single-crystal diamond. We showed that that system could have stability that approached...

News type: Research Highlights