Optical amplifier for trapped-atom imaging

用于捕获原子成像的光学放大器

• 批准号: 405884-2011
• 负责人: Thywissen, Joseph
• 金额: $ 3.72万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=472329
• 关键词: Optical; amplifier; trapped; atom; imaging

Exotic materials, such as high-temperature superconductors, pose some of the most important open questions in physics. Theorists have proposed models to explain their properties, but this is a difficult problem: even reduced models have proven impossible to solve. Ultra-cold atoms offer a new hope in our quest to understand exotic materials. By testing the basic theoretical models of superconductivity in a simpler system, we might be able to make progress on the connection between high-Tc materials and the models which may explain them.

奇特的材料，如高温超导体，提出了物理学中一些最重要的悬而未决的问题。理论家已经提出了模型来解释它们的性质，但这是一个困难的问题：即使是简化的模型也被证明是不可能解决的。超冷原子为我们理解奇异物质提供了新的希望。通过在一个更简单的系统中测试超导性的基本理论模型，我们可能能够在高温材料和解释它们的模型之间的联系方面取得进展。