Collaborative Research: Applications of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates in Quantum-Computational Devices

这项研究工作包括佐治亚南方大学（GSU）的马克·爱德华兹、马里兰大学、学院公园和国家标准与技术研究所（UMCP/NIST）的查尔斯·克拉克以及牛津大学的基思·伯内特的合作。重要的研究课题包括光学晶格的图案加载及其随后的演化，有限温度下光学晶格中量子气体的超流体和莫特绝缘体状态特性，悬浮在各种设计的原子芯片上的凝聚体的运行建模，以及对这些器件的退相干特性的仔细研究。

This research effort involves a collaboration among Mark Edwards of Georgia Southern University (GSU), Charles Clark of the University of Maryland, College Park and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (UMCP/NIST), and Keith Burnett of Oxford University. Important topics to be investigated include patterned loading of optical lattices and their subsequent evolution, Superfluid and Mott-insulator state properties of quantum gases confined in optical lattices at finite temperature, modeling of the operation of condensates suspended above atom chips of various designs, and careful study of the decoherence properties of such devices.