A new study illuminates surprising choreography among spinning atoms. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, researchers from MIT and Harvard University reveal how magnetic forces at the…
Atomic clocks are the most precise timekeepers in the world. These exquisite instruments use lasers to measure the vibrations of atoms, which oscillate at a constant frequency, like many microscopic…
Significant efforts have been made to interface cold atoms with micro- and nano-photonic systems in recent years. Originally, it was envisioned that the migration to these systems from free-space atomic…
Understanding out-of-equilibrium phenomena in quantum many-body systems is one of the great challenges in physics. Cold atoms provide a promising experimental platform for exploring the dynamics away from equilibrium and…
Join CUA members to learn hands-on about some of the research that goes on in the CUA! Activities include a gum-drop model Ion Trap, a 6-foot Tornado Simulator, experiments with…
…change everyday objects, and a station to make your own holograms. The event will kick off with a short talk by Professor Martin Zwierlein, followed by interactive demonstrations. Free! Drop-In….
…of three-component fermions [3]. This latter study has uncovered qualitatively surprising dynamics and presents an open puzzle regarding the three-body recombination of three-component fermions [3]. If time permits, I will…
…tight-binding limit. Combined with strong qubit-photon interactions, these systems can be used to study dynamical phase tranisitions, many-body phenomena, and spin models in driven-dissipative systems. I will show that waveguide…
…particular, radioactive atoms and molecules – those containing nuclei with extreme proton-to-neutron ratios – can be artificially created to enhance and study specific nuclear phenomena. Laser spectroscopy experiments of atoms…