A Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to an optical cavity shows the Dicke quantum phase transition in an open system. The superradiant phase emerges from a broken symmetry and has the character…
…strong interactions has been obtained by mapping out the superfluid phases versus temperature, density imbalance and interaction strength. I will discuss the phase diagram and several open questions about the…
Simple molecules at ultracold temperatures, combined with high-resolution optical spectroscopy, open the door to molecular and fundamental science that is hard to access with other physical systems. In this talk,…
The ability to control atoms’ translational degrees of freedom with lasers has revolutionized atomic physics. In the past few years there has been dramatic progress towards achieving similar control over…
Understanding strongly correlated quantum many-body states is one of the most difficult challenges in modern physics. For example, there remain fundamental open questions on the phase diagram of the Hubbard…
Simple molecules at ultracold temperatures, combined with high-resolution optical spectroscopy, open the door to molecular and fundamental science that is hard to access with other physical systems. In this talk,…
The CUA regularly both runs and participates in outside events aimed at a K-12 audience. The majority of these events are open to all students, and aimed at local, Boston-area…
…previously hosting the Virtual Journal, and currently most visibly through MIT’s Open Course Ware. The CUA has also run the TOPS program for many years, which served to invigorate physics…
…cascade driven by the evaporative heating of vortices, leading to steady-state configurations characterized by negative absolute temperatures. Our results open a pathway for quantitative studies of emergent structures in interacting…
…lower than the reservoir temperature. This is also a novel realization of an open quantum optical system, where known tools are combined with new ideas involving cooling via a reservoir….