MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA)

Publications

H. Son, J. Park, Y. Lu, A. Jamison, W. Ketterle, and Tijs Karman. Control of reactive collisions by quantum interference. Science, 375(6584), March 2022.
W. Ketterle, A. Jamison, An atomic physics perspective on the kilogram’s new definition. Physics Today73, (5):32, May 2020.
H. Son, J. Park, W. Ketterle, A. Jamison, Collisional Cooling of Ultracold Atoms. Nature, 580(197), April 2020.
W. Lunden, L. Du, M. Cantara, P. Barral, A. Jamison, W. Ketterle, Enhancing the capture velocity of a Dy magneto-optical trap with two-stage slowing. Physical Review A, 101(063403), June 2020.
B. Shteynas, J. Lee, F. Top, J. Li, A. Jamison, W. Ketterle, and G. Juzeliūnas. How to dress radio-frequency photons with tunable momentum. Physical Review Letters, 123(033203), July 2019.
J. Li, J. Lee, W. Huang, B. Shteynas, F. Top, A. Jamison, W. Ketterle, and S. Burchesky. A stripe phase with supersolid properties in spin–orbit-coupled Bose–Einstein condensates. Nature, 543(91), March 2017.
T. Rvachov, H. Son, A. Sommer, J. Park, M. Zwierlein, W. Ketterle, A. Jamison, and S. Ebadi. Long-Lived Ultracold Molecules with Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments. Phys. Rev. Lett. October 2017.
J. Li, W. Huang, B. Shteynas, F. Top, E. Su, J. Lee, A. Jamison, W. Ketterle, Spin-Orbit Coupling and Spin Textures in Optical Superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 117(185301), October 2016.

News

Wed February 1, 2023

Physicists observe rare resonance in molecules for the first time

If she hits just the right pitch, a singer can shatter a wine glass. The reason is resonance. While the glass may vibrate slightly in response to most acoustic tones, a pitch that resonates with the material’s own natural frequency can send its vibrations into overdrive, causing the glass to shatter. Resonance also occurs at...

Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference

Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, or more recently with external fields (electric or magnetic fields, or laser beams). MIT CUA physicists have now added a new twist to this: They...

Triple Feature

Location:Harvard Jefferson 250

Hannes Bernien

Alan Jamison

Fabian Grusdt

Triple feature presented by three CUA members. Each will speak for 20 minutes and then there will be a question and answer period for 5 minutes. Topics will include the following:

“Long-lived Ultracold Triplet Molecules,” presented by Alan Jamison

“Meson theory of magnetic polarons in hole-doped anti-ferromagnets” presented by Fabian Grusdt

“Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator,” presented by Hannes Bernien.

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CUA Seminar Series

Fri April 20, 2018 2:00 pm

CUA Cambridge Science Festival, 2018

Location:MIT 26-214 and 26-210

Martin W. Zwierlein

Alan Jamison

Louis Baum

Benjamin L. Augenbraun

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At extremely low temperatures, the fundamental building blocks of the universe behave unexpectedly. Discover this hidden world at The Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA).

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Tue September 1, 2020 12:00 am

CUA Tutors at Christo Rey Boston High School

Julius de Hond, MIT

Hanzhen Lin, MIT

Since 2016, members of the CUA have spoken to classes at Christo Rey Boston High School, as well as tutored students. Tutoring is primarily in science subjects, but also covers organizational skills. The Christo Rey student body is comprised of nearly all students of color, all from families of limited economic means, and 60% of...

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Outreach Events

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

People: Alan Jamison

Physicists observe rare resonance in molecules for the first time

Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference

Triple Feature

CUA Cambridge Science Festival, 2018

CUA Tutors at Christo Rey Boston High School