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ABOUT THE GROUP
The RLE Experimental Atomic Physics Group is currently working on two experiments, and preparing a third one: The first is concerned with a new laser cooling method that can be applied to particles with an arbitrary internal level structure and may provide a way to cool certain molecules with large polarizability in the optical domain. The second experiment uses currents flowing through conductors on a microfabricated chip to create and trap Bose-Einstein condensates. They are also building an ion trap experiment using Ytterbium ions for quantum computation and communication. The long term goal of all three experiments is to develop new methods to manipulate particles in a regime where the quantum mechanical aspects dominate their behavior and their properties. On the one hand, this should lead to new tools that allow one to probe physical laws and to measure fundamental constants with increasing precision. On the other hand, the progress of experimental methods also drives the advances in understanding of the ever mysterious, beautiful, accurate, yet deeply dissatisfying structure of quantum mechanics. This interplay between theoretical concepts and experimental realizations promises to be very fertile in fields such as quantum control, quantum feedback and its limits, many-particle quantum systems, and many-particle entanglement (quantum computing).
CURRENT PROGRESS REPORT CHAPTERS
2007 | No. 149
Quantum Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms and Photons
2006 | No. 148
Quantum Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms
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