Manipulating a Spinor BEC

罗切斯特大学的一个研究小组将利用超冷原子蒸气模拟和仿真一系列物理学子领域的问题。 该团队使用精心准备的激光脉冲来塑造原子云，使其随后的行为模拟对材料科学和核自旋共振（MRI等技术的核心现象）等其他领域的问题至关重要的物理现象。一个关键的影响是创造了对量子技术和新材料开发有用的知识。 同样重要的是，这项研究将成为培养下一代科学家的核心。 超冷原子的稀释样品已经被用来实现高性能的原子钟和陀螺仪。作为AMO物理的一个项目，该研究技术为科学家和工程师提供了理想的培训基地。在这些领域受过培训的学生在学术，政府和工业工作中备受追捧，并在美国科学劳动力中发挥着关键作用。该项目是高度跨学科的，将光学、原子和分子物理学技术与固态和凝聚态物理学技术相结合。

Using ultracold atomic vapors a research team at the University of Rochester will simulate and emulate problems from a range of subfields of physics. The team uses carefully prepared laser pulses to shape the atomic cloud in such a way that its subsequent behavior models physical phenomena important to problems in other areas such as material science and nuclear spin resonance (the phenomena at the heart of technologies such as MRI).A key impact is the creation of knowledge useful for the development of quantum technologies and novel materials. Of equal importance is that the research will be central to the training of the next generations of scientists. Dilute samples of ultracold atoms have already been used to realize high-performance atomic clocks and gyroscopes. As a project in AMO physics, the research techniques provide an ideal training ground for scientists and engineers. Students trained in these fields are highly sought after in academic, government and industrial jobs and play a key role in the US scientific workforce. The project is highly interdisciplinary, combining techniques of optics, atomic and molecular physics, with those of solid-state and condensed matter physics.