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Tue January 1, 2013

Single-photon Nonlinearities in Two-mode Optomechanics

We presented a detailed theoretical analysis of a weakly driven, multimode optomechanical system, in which two optical modes were strongly and near-resonantly coupled to a single mechanical mode via a three-wave mixing interaction. We calculated one- and two-time intensity correlations of the two optical fields and compared them to analogous correlations in atom-cavity systems. Nonclassical...
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Tue January 1, 2013

Stretchable Photonic Crystal Cavity with Wide Frequency Tunability

We reported a new approach for the realization of a flexible photonic crystal (PC) cavity that enabled wide-range tuning of its resonance frequency. Our PC cavity consisted of a regular array of silicon nanowires embedded in a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix and exhibited a cavity resonance in the telecommunication band that could be reversibly tuned over...
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Tue January 1, 2013

Non-Equilibrium Fractional Quantum Hall State of Light

We investigated the quantum dynamics of systems, which involved small numbers of strongly interacting photons. Specifically, we developed an efficient method to investigate such systems when they were externally driven with a coherent field. Furthermore, we showed how to quantify the many-body quantum state of light via correlation functions. Finally, we applied that method to...
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Tue September 4, 2012

Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi gas

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).
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CUA in the News
Sat September 1, 2012

Vinay Ramasesh received the 2012 Malcolm Cotton Brown Award from the MIT Physics Department

Hongkun Park and Wolfgang Ketterle have been chosen as the 2016 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows,
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Awards
Mon June 11, 2012

Observation of Topological Bound States in Photonic Quantum Walks published in Nature Communications

A research collaboration including CUA investigators at Harvard.
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Fri June 8, 2012

2012 DAMOP thesis award to Waseem Bakr

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Awards
Wed February 15, 2012

Paola Cappellaro wins AFOSR Young Investigator Award

A research collaboration including CUA investigators at Harvard.
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Awards
Wed February 15, 2012

Microscopy of the Superfluid to Mott transition wins the 2011 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize

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.
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Fri January 27, 2012

Monika Schleier-Smith wins the Hertz Thesis Prize and is selected as Finalist for the DAMOP Thesis Award

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...
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Awards