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/

CUA Equity Journal Club meets every-other Wednesday.

https://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/news/black-lives-matter-4/

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

Black Lives Matter

How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

2022 Norman Ramsey Prize

CUA Seminars

Tue April 26, 2022 4:00 pm

CUA Seminar – Virginia Lorenz: Engineering photonic quantum states for quantum applications

Location:MIT 34-101 (via Zoom)

Virginia Lorenz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Ten Minute Talk:"Engage CUA" by Rodrigo A Bravo, Harvard

Photons are inherently fast and do not readily couple to the environment, making them ideal carriers of quantum information. The usefulness of photons has been demonstrated in quantum computing, quantum communication, precision measurement, and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics, but it is still a challenge to create photonic quantum sources with just the right properties...

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Recent Publications

R. A. Bravo, K. Najafi, X. Gao, S. Yelin, Quantum reservoir computing using arrays of Rydberg atoms. ArXiv 2021.
S. Yelin and Caleb Heuvel-Horwitz. Superradiance-assisted two-color Doppler cooling of molecules. ArXiv 2021.
T. Patti, K. Najafi, S. Yelin, and Omar Shehab. Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Enhanced Variational Quantum Algorithms. ArXiv 2021.
A. McClain, S. Yelin, K. Najafi, Born Machines for Periodic and Open XY Quantum Spin Chains. ArXiv 2021.

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Outreach Events

Wed April 14, 2021 12:00 am

CUA @ the virtual Cambridge Science Festival

Location:Cambridge Science Festival

Richard Fletcher

Jared Rivera, MIT

Scott Alsid

Pai Peng

Benjamin L. Augenbraun

Loic Anderegg

Event Website

Follow the link (directly above) to see the CUA’s video entries for the 2021 Cambridge Science Festival, focusing on explaining some of the CUA’s research to a K-12 audience. Special thanks to our volunteers for creating these wonderful videos!

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

CUA Seminars

CUA Seminar – Virginia Lorenz: Engineering photonic quantum states for quantum applications

Recent Publications

Outreach Events

CUA @ the virtual Cambridge Science Festival

Upcoming Events