Self-assembling structures atom by atom has been one of the greatest promises of nanotechology. Periodic optical lattices, atom-light interactions, and atom-atom interactions have produced a wide range of self-assembled structures…
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…
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…
…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….
The Quantum Gas Microscope enables high fidelity detection of single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice, bringing ultracold atom research to a new, microscopic level. We investigate the Bose-Hubbard model…
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…
…an atomic Fermi gas, a highly controllable form of quantum degenerate matter. We reveal the spin-orbit gap via spin-injection spectroscopy, which characterizes the energy-momentum dispersion and spin composition of the…
We report on the formation of ultracold fermionic Feshbach molecules of $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K, the first fermionic molecule that is chemically stable in its ground state. The lifetime of the nearly degenerate…
In this talk, I will present a pedagogical introduction to quantum chemistry and summarize some important open questions in the field. I will also make connections between quantum chemistry and…