Physics Frontier Center at the Joint Quantum Institute

物理学家对量子力学现象的理解已经超越了简单的观察和测量阶段。原子、分子和光学物理学（AMO）和凝聚态物理学（CM）的进展使人们能够探索量子系统的控制，以实现量子工程的目标。通过这个物理前沿中心奖，联合量子研究所（PFC@JQI）的物理前沿中心将在上一个奖项期间进行的研究的基础上，通过系统地控制和监测量子复杂性来研究多体物理学。这将通过使用跨越AMO和CM的各种平台进行复杂的构建和材料检查来完成。 PFC@JQI将继续通过诸如暑期女孩方案等方案接触代表性不足的群体，这是一个为期两周的高中生密集、动手物理方案。该中心还将参与其他面向公众、K-12学生和研究生教育的推广和教育项目。PFC@JQI将在AMO和CM的接口上研究与量子多体物理相关的实验和理论领域。研究领域将包括：拓扑物质研究（其中能带决定物质的性质和行为），如马约拉纳费米子物理学和可编程拓扑物质的新平台;使用量子光学系统通过原子或光子介质中的光子之间的耦合或由光子介导来探索多体物理学;以及通过实验学家和理论家的密切合作，使用原子和凝聚态系统研究多体相互作用系统的非平衡量子动力学。

Physicists' understanding of quantum mechanical phenomena has surpassed the stage of simple observation and measurement. Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics (AMO) and condensed matter physics (CM) have enabled explorations into the control over quantum systems with a goal of achieving quantum engineering. Through this Physics Frontiers Centers award the Physics Frontiers Center at the Joint Quantum Institute (PFC@JQI) will build on research conducted during the previous award to study many-body physics by the controlling and monitoring of quantum complexity in a systematic way. This will be done by both the intricate building and examination of materials using a wide range of platforms spanning both AMO and CM. The PFC@JQI will continue to reach out to underrepresented groups through programs such as the Summer Girls Program which is a two-week intensive, hands-on physics program for high school students. The Center will also participate in other outreach and education programs geared to a range of audiences from the general public to K-12 students to graduate education.The PFC@JQI will investigate experimental and theoretical areas related to quantum many-body physics at the interface of AMO and CM. Research areas will include: studies of topological matter (where energy bands determine the nature and behavior of the matter) such as Majorana fermion physics and new platforms for programmable topological matter; the use of quantum optical systems to explore many-body physics through coupling between, or mediated by, photons in atomic or photonic media; and the study of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body interacting systems using atomic and condensed matter systems through a close collaboration of experimentalists and theorists.