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Tue October 15, 2013

Cambridge-Connecticut AMO Open House

Open House talks
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Tue October 15, 2013

Symposium Honoring Professor Daniel Kleppner

This meeting will celebrate Professor Daniel Kleppner’s career of fundamental contributions in physics. An outstanding list of invited speakers will present the most recent and interesting topics in atomic physics.
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Wed September 25, 2013

Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter

Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, was awarded a prize for graduate education for his courses 8.421 (Atomic and Optical Physics) and 8.422 (Atomic and Optical Physics II).
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CUA in the News
Fri September 13, 2013

Professor Markus Greiner receives the junior BEC Award 2013

A research collaboration including CUA investigators at Harvard.
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Awards
Thu July 4, 2013

MIT researchers build an all-optical transistor

To recognize and encourage outstanding research in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics by investigators who have held a Ph. D. for 10 years or less. The prize consists of $7,500 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. An allowance will be provided for travel expenses of the recipient to the Society meeting...
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Mon April 1, 2013

Matthew Nichols wins NDSEG Fellowship

The Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) has named Martin Zwierlein, an MIT assistant professor of physics, as one of its 17 new Young Investigators.
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Awards
Tue January 15, 2013

The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics awarded to Susanne Yelin

This meeting will celebrate Professor Daniel Kleppner’s career of fundamental contributions in physics. An outstanding list of invited speakers will present the most recent and interesting topics in atomic physics.
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Awards
Tue January 1, 2013

Experimentally efficient methods for estimating the performance of quantum measurements

In this work we proposed metrics to characterize the performance of quantum measurements and provided experimentally accessible and efficient protocols to estimate these metrics. This work thus fills a gap in the characterization of quantum operations, which has until now focused on just the system evolution (via techniques such as quantum process tomography) providing a...
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Research Highlights
Tue January 1, 2013

Topologically Protected Quantum State Transfer in a Chiral Spin Liquid

Topology plays a central role in ensuring the robustness of a wide variety of physical phenomena. Notable examples range from the current-carrying edge states associated with the quantum Hall and the quantum spin Hall effects to topologically protected quantum memory and quantum logic operations. We proposed and analysed a topologically protected channel for the transfer...
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Tue January 1, 2013

Polaronic Model of Two-level Systems in Amorphous Solids

While two-level systems (TLSs) are ubiqitous in solid state systems, microscopic understanding of their nature remains an outstanding problem. Conflicting phenomenological models are used to describe TLSs in seemingly similar materials when probed with different experimental techniques. Specifically, bulk measurements in amorphous solids have been interpreted using the model of a tunneling atom or group...
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Research Highlights