Institute for Theoretical, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

原子、分子和光学（AMO）物理学是一门基础科学，它为上个世纪一些最重要的科学和技术进步做出了贡献，包括激光、原子钟的发明和理解，以及新型物质的创造。与AMO物理核心相关的应用在导航（GPS和原子钟）、医学（激光、核磁共振成像、成像）和全球互联网通信（光纤）中随处可见。AMO物理学也是一门与凝聚态物理、化学、天体物理学、等离子体和核物理以及生物学等几个科学领域相联系的学科。随着一场新的量子革命正在进行，在原子物种之间相互作用的精确控制和光与物质的相干特性的操纵和研究方面取得了显着进步，AMO理论的卓越中心将作为帮助领导这场量子技术革命的活动的集大成者。这个新成立的理论中心（ITAMP）将为美国的物理学家提供广泛的服务。ITAMP位于马萨诸塞州剑桥的哈佛-史密森天体物理中心（CfA），将成为新颖和创新思想的聚会场所，在这里，高度活跃的理论物理学家与实验家、访问学者和从事AMO物理学广泛定义主题的教职员工密切互动，并在剑桥更大的AMO物理生态系统中蓬勃发展。ITAMP将努力成为理论AMO物理的孵化器，通过提供资源和访问剑桥丰富的AMO相关卓越生态系统（如哈佛大学和麻省理工学院的NSF PFC-超冷原子中心），为访问学者和初级研究员的培训和指导创造一个协作环境，广泛倡导该领域，并引领AMO物理的前沿研究和向社区的推广工作。ITAMP将举行并主办有针对性的专题小组会议，在会议上，大批实践者将聚集在一起，对AMO物理学中的专题挑战发起协调攻击，并找到解决这些问题的新方法。博士后研究员和学生将受益于接近这些公认的人物在理论和实验AMO科学。访问学者住在一个相邻的办公环境中，他们将以其他不可能的方式与博士后和科学研究员互动。冬季研究生院将安排培养学生热衷于学习AMO物理学的基础和高级主题。

Atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics is a fundamental science that has contributed to some of the most significant scientific and technical advances of the last century, including the invention and understanding of the laser, atomic clocks, and the creation of new types of matter. Applications connected to the core of AMO physics are found in abundance in navigation (GPS and atomic clocks), medicine (lasers, MRI, imaging), and global internet communication (optical fibers). AMO Physics is also an enabling discipline connecting with several areas of science in condensed matter physics, chemistry, astrophysics, plasma and nuclear physics, and biology. With a new quantum revolution underway, spurred by remarkable advances in exquisite precision and control of interactions between atomic species and manipulation and study of the coherent properties of light and matter, a center of excellence in AMO theory will serve as the integrator of activities in helping lead this revolution in quantum technologies. This newly-established theoretical center (ITAMP) will serve a broad community of physicists in the United States.ITAMP at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, MA will serve as the meeting place for novel and innovative ideas, and in which highly motivated theoretical physicists interact in close proximity to experimentalists, visiting fellows and faculty working on broadly defined topics in AMO physics, and flourish in the larger AMO physics ecosystem in Cambridge. ITAMP will strive to be an incubator facility for theoretical AMO physics by providing resources and access to the rich AMO-related ecosystem of excellence in Cambridge, such as the NSF PFC- Center for Ultracold Atoms at Harvard and MIT- to create a collaborative environment for the visiting fellows and for the training and mentoring of junior fellows, to broadly advocate for the field, and to lead in forefront research in AMO physics and outreach efforts to the community. ITAMP will hold and host targeted topical group meetings in which large groups of practitioners will gather in critical mass to mount coordinated attacks on topical challenges in AMO physics and find novel solutions to these problems. Postdoctoral fellows and students will benefit from proximity to these recognized figures in theoretical and experimental AMO science. Visiting fellows, housed in a contiguous office environment, will interact with the postdoctoral and scientific fellows in ways not otherwise possible. Winter Graduate Schools will be scheduled to train students keen in learning fundamental and advanced topics in AMO physics.