REU Topic: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Control and read-out of quantum information stored in single ions

Prof. Hartmut Haeffner

Quantum computers promise to tackle problems impossible to solve with classical computing resources. For this, quantum computers control quantum information encoded in quantum systems. This project aims at improving quantum […]

Atom interferometry in a cavity-controlling residual amplitude modulation (RAM)

Prof. Holger Mueller

Atom interferometry presents a way to leverage quantum mechanics to test gravity and fundamental physics. We have recently shown that the light bound by a pair of mirrors can be used to levitate an atom in a quantum superposition of two places at once [...]

Building laser optical systems for atomic spectroscopy

Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn

Laser light can be used to extract kinetic energy from neutral atoms in a vapor, and thereby to cool them down to temperatures in the micro-Kelvin range and below.  At […]