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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 January 1, 2013

Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Strongly Interacting Photons

Quantum-optics researchers have been trying to achieve strong inter­actions between individual photons for decades. These interactions constitute a fundamental tool toward the ultimate control of light fields “quantum by quantum.” They can be used to realize deterministic two-qubit optical gates for scalable quantum computing and to produce highly correlated states for high-precision measurements. Also, they...
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Tue January 1, 2013

Coupling of a Single Trapped Atom to a Nanoscale Optical Cavity

In this paper in collaboration with the Lukin group, we demonstrate for the first time deterministic coupling of a trapped atom to a nanophotonic resonator. For details see Lukin’s report.
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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...
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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

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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Awards