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

这项研究工作涉及南乔治亚大学(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·伯内特之间的合作。要研究的重要课题包括光学晶格的图案化加载及其随后的演化，有限温度下限制在光学晶格中的量子气体的超流和Mott绝缘态性质，悬浮在各种设计的原子芯片上方的凝聚体操作的模拟，以及对这种器件的消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.