CUA research focuses on research at the frontiers of ultracold science including the nature of high-temperature superconductors, the origin of quantum magnetism, and the nature of entanglement and correlations in few-particles systems. The research exploits the growing power of controlling bosonic and fermionic fluids of ultracold atoms, and single atoms and photons. These techniques are applied to problems of central interest in condensed matter physics, and quantum information science. The research program is organized about three major themes:

1. Quantum gases of atoms and molecules
2. Atoms and Photons
3. Atom-like and Hybrid Systems