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

这项研究工作涉及格鲁吉亚南方大学（GSU）的Mark Edwards，马里兰州大学的Charles Clark，College Park和国家标准与技术研究所（UMCP/NIST）以及牛津大学的基思伯内特之间的合作。要研究的重要课题包括图案加载的光学晶格及其随后的演变，超流体和莫特绝缘体状态的量子气体限制在光学晶格在有限温度下的属性，模型的操作悬浮在各种设计的原子芯片上的凝聚体，并仔细研究这种设备的退相干特性。

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.