State-of-the-art optical atomic clocks enable frequency metrology at the 19th decimal place. Beyond keeping time, they find applications in low-energy tests of fundamental symmetries, and quantum engineering their clockwork opens…
…open questions on its phase diagram. In this work we realize the Hubbard Hamiltonian and search for specific patterns within many individual images of realizations of strongly correlated ultracold fermions…
I will review some recent directions in the study of cold quantum gases formed by neutral atoms, showing how some seemingly disparate topics might be brought together in the laboratory…
…optical nanofibers can open new perspectives for manipulating atoms and photons, such as modification of spontaneous emission, super-radiance, etc. We explore the nanofiber/atom interaction using laser-cooled Cs-atoms. We demonstrate that…
Produced by MIT alumnus Todd Rider, and sponsored by the MIT Museum and the Akamai Foundation, Science on Saturday is a free, 60-minute presentation with fun demonstrations in which students…
…few- and many-body physics, and open new research avenues. We will explore particular phenomena, notably exotic molecules and new binding mechanism, and the effect of strongly interacting atoms leading to…
We have produced NaLi Feshbach molecules from an ultracold mixture of bosonic 23Na and fermionic 6Li [1]. Precise magnetic field sweeps across a narrow Feshbach resonance convert 5% of free…
See the video: How modern science is proving Einstein wrong (and right)…
Atoms trapped in optical lattices have been used successfully to study many-body phenomena. However, the shape that bosonic ground-state wavefunctions can take is limited, compromising the usefulness of this approach….
Recently, new experimental techniques in ultracold atoms made it possible to study the real-time response of Fermi systems on, compared to the Fermi time, ultrafast time scales [1], which are…