Sun, June 28, 2009

Gordon Conference with strong CUA representation

The biannual Gordon Conference on Atomic Physics will take place from June 28-July 3, 2009 in Tilton, NH. Invited talks on CUA research will be given by Ike Chuang, Wolfgang Ketterle, Markus Greiner and Ron Walsworth (collaborator of Misha Lukin). Further invited talks are given by CUA alumni Roman Krems, Jack Harris, and Jake Taylor.

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Mon, June 8, 2009

A Viewpoint on: Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms

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Fri, June 5, 2009

International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy in Japan

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...

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Wed, June 3, 2009

Joel Matthew Orloff Award for Hyun Kim

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...

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Mon, May 18, 2009

Physics Viewpoint Article on “Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber”

A research collaboration including CUA investigators at Harvard.

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Thu, January 1, 2009

Intense Atomic and Molecular Beams via Neon Buffer gas Cooling

D. Patterson, J. Rasmussen and J.M. Doyle, New Journal of Physics submitted (2009)

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Thu, January 1, 2009

Buffer-gas Cooled Bose-Einstein Condensate

Now well into its second decade, the experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in dilute gases has led to revolutionary advances in physics. Since this achievement the field has moved quickly, with innumerable new developments in coherent atom and molecular optics and nonlinear atom optics, the observation of superfluidity in atomic gases, the study of novel quantum systems, and most recently the study of the BEC-BCS crossover. Despite the breadth of new research, however, the basic recipe for BEC is unchanged from its first realization in alkali atoms: pre-cool a hot sample utilizing laser cooling to permit trapping and provide high densities, followed by evaporative cooling to reach quantum degeneracy.

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Thu, January 1, 2009

Cold Trapped Molecules: Collisional Limitations and Mechanisms

Wesley Campbell, Timur Rscherbul, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Roman Krems, John Doyle, Physical Review Letters 102 013003 (2009)

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Thu, January 1, 2009

Mechanism of Collisional Spin Relaxation in 3S Molecules

Wesley Campbell, Timur Rscherbul, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Roman Krems, John Doyle, Physical Review Letters 102 013003 (2009)

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Thu, January 1, 2009

Collision-induced spin depolarization of alkali metal atoms in cold He gas

T.V. Tscherbul, P. Zhang, H.R. Sadeghpour, A. Dalgarno, N. Brahms, Y.S. Au, and J.M. Doyle, Physical Review accepted (2009).

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