MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) | a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center

The CUA is welcoming suggestions for collaborative research with minority-serving institutions.

https://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/collaborations-with-minority-serving-institutions/

The Alejandro Angel Escobar National Awards in Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences are the oldest and most prestigious awards in Colombia

https://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/edwin-eduardo-pedrozo-penafiel-is-the-winner-of-the-2022-alejandro-angel-escobar-national-award-in-exact-physical-and-natural-sciences/

As atoms are chilled and squeezed to extremes, their ability to scatter light is suppressed.

https://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/how-ultracold-superdense-atoms-become-invisible/

Professor Lukin wins 2022 Norman Ramsey Prize

https://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/prof-mikhail-lukin-wins-2022-norman-ramsey-prize/

New NSF PREP Program

Edwin Pedrozo wins 2022 Escobar National Award

How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

2022 Norman Ramsey Prize

CUA Seminars

Tue October 11, 2022 4:00 pm

CUNY Triple Feature

Location:Harvard Jefferson 250

Carlos Meriles, CUNY

Vinod Menon, CUNY

Johannes Flick, CUNY

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CUA Seminar Series

Recent Publications

S. Colombo, E. Pedrozo-Peñafiel, A. Adiyatullin, Z. Li, E. Mendez, C. Shu, V. Vuletic, Time-reversal-based quantum metrology with many-body entangled states. Nature Physics, 1817(181), July 2022.
P. Peng, P. Cappellaro, X. Huang, C. Yin, L. Joseph, and C. Ramanathan . Deep reinforcement learning for quantum Hamiltonian engineering. ArXiv 2021.
P. Patel Quantum transport in strongly interacting, ultracold Fermi gases in box potentials. MIT, 2022.
Z. Yan Quasi-particle Breakdown and Heat Transport in a Homogeneous Strongly-interacting Fermi Gas. MIT, 2022.

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Outreach Events

Mon October 3, 2022 4:00 pm

CUA Kids Day 2022

Location:MIT 26-214, 26-210, and 26-204

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The Cambridge Science Festival returns in-person, and CUA is pleased to be participating again! Our workshop will kick off with a brief talk by Professor Zwierlein on the nature of cold. CUA members from MIT and Harvard will present an ion trap, tornado machine, make-your-own-hologram station, and a demonstration with liquid nitrogen. Cambridge Science Festival...

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Upcoming Events

Tue October 18, 2022 4:00 pm

CUA Seminar – Shimon Kolkowitz: Harnessing classical correlations and the multi-level nature of decoherence in quantum systems

Location:MIT 4-370

Shimon Kolkowitz, University of Wisconsin Madison

In quantum science we often simplify our analyses by treating quantum systems as two-level qubits, and by assuming that the decoherence events of two or more unentangled qubits are uncorrelated from each other. For example, both of these assumptions are central tenets of circuit-based quantum error correction protocols. However, in experiments these assumptions regularly break...

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CUA Seminar Series

Tue October 25, 2022 4:00 pm