Edwin Eduardo Pedrozo Peñafiel obtains this award among other reasons because the evaluating jurors considered that his research: The search for new Physics with Entanglement-Enhanced Optical Atomic Clocks is “a…
…uncertainty of 5 x 10-17, making this ratio the best known constant of nature. By looking for changes of the ratio, we can search for changes of the fine-structure constant….
I will describe the JILA search for the electron’s electric dipole moment using molecular ions. In particular, I will highlight the use of rotating electric fields and magnetic fields for…
…with nearly unit quantum efficiency. While atomic physics is obviously at the core of trapped ion quantum computers, recent strides in this field have come from the systems engineering of…
The normal state of an unpolarized two-component Fermi gas in the strong coupling region of the BCS-BEC crossover has a single particle spectrum with a distinct suppression of the spectral…
Manipulating light-matter interactions at the nanoscale has broad implications for many research areas, ranging from spectroscopy and sensing to communications and quantum information processing. In this presentation, I will discuss…
…resonance. This resonance results from three free atoms coupling to an Efimov trimer state. At a positive two-body scattering length, we observe a scattering resonance in atom-dimer collisions, which we…
…is set to behave as a free relativistic quantum particle. This experiment demonstrates that a system acting as a quantum simulator may have completely different physical properties than the quantum…
Thomson Reuters published their 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers. It includes 8 physicists at Harvard and MIT, three of which are CUA researchers (Misha Lukin, Martin Zwierlein, Wolfgang Ketterle)….
…we have performed with a new kind of spatially multiplexed strontium optical lattice clock. The second example will be a detailed experimental study of spin-phonon relaxation in nitrogen vacancy (NV)…