CAREER: Exploring exotic matter through the quantum manipulation of dipolar atoms

该职业奖支持一项实验计划，通过开发偶极原子量子操纵的使能技术来创建和研究奇异形式的物质。 高磁性原子的超冷气体，如镝，提供了在长程相互作用下探索强相关物质的机会，这在其他实验环境中很难实现。 将开发技术来进行第一次激光冷却和捕获-和随后的限制在光学晶格-镝。 这一成就将导致对奇异物质状态的研究，在某些情况下，这些奇异物质状态构成了对不符合标准费米液体理论的、尽管与技术相关但知之甚少的凝聚态材料的描述。 具体来说，通过将Dy冷却至简并，使用费米子Dy研究量子液晶的基态，以及探索由扩展的玻色-哈伯德（EBH）模型预测的非均匀相将成为可能。 超越量子液晶和EBH物理学，发展超冷Dy技术将导致利用Dy的电信量子比特跃迁和Dy的巨大磁矩实现电信波段量子信息处理，并开发超高灵敏度，高分辨率的原子芯片显微镜奇异凝聚态系统。补充研究计划是一个计划，通过日常技术教授物理学：将GPS技术的主题与本研究计划的技术专长相结合，通过开发原子钟实验室模块，向本科物理专业和高中“教师领导”教授核心物理学原理。 该模块将服务于三个教育任务：通过伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的EnLiST NSF数学和科学合作伙伴关系（MSP）计划培训高中教师领导，为提高K-12学生的科学成绩做出贡献;增强PHYS 403现代实验物理实验室，介绍高层次的本科物理专业的技能和切割所需的主题-在科学和技术的边缘职业生涯;并提供动手实验室经验的参与者在硕士科学教学计划，即将到来的认证计划由物理系提供伊利诺伊州的教师。

This CAREER award supports an experimental program to create and study exotic forms of matter by developing the enabling technology for the quantum manipulation of dipolar atoms. Ultracold gases of highly magnetic atoms, such as dysprosium, offer opportunities to explore strongly correlated matter in the presence of long-range interactions in a manner difficult to achieve in other experimental settings. Techniques will be developed to perform the first laser cooling and trapping---and subsequent confinement in optical lattices---of dysprosium. This achievement will lead to the investigation of exotic states of matter that, in several cases, underlie proposed descriptions of poorly understood, though technologically relevant, condensed matter materials that do not obey standard Fermi liquid theory. Specifically, investigation of the ground states of quantum liquid crystals using fermionic Dy, as well as explorations of the inhomogeneous phases predicted by the extended Bose-Hubbard (EBH) model, will be possible through the cooling of Dy to degeneracy. Looking beyond quantum liquid crystal and EBH physics, developing ultracold Dy technology will lead to the exploitation of both Dy's telecom qubit transition and Dy's colossal magnetic moment for the realization of telecom-band quantum information processing and the development of ultra-high sensitivity, high-resolution atom chip microscopy of exotic condensed matter systems.Complementing the research program is a plan to teach physics through everyday technology: Combining the theme of GPS technology with the technical expertise drawn from this research program, core physics principles will be taught to undergraduate physics majors and high school "teacher leaders" through the development of a laboratory module on atomic clocks. This module will serve three educational missions: contributing to the improvement of K-12 student achievement in science by training high school teacher leaders via the EnLiST NSF Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; augmenting the PHYS 403 Modern Experimental Physics lab that introduces upper-level undergraduate physics majors to skills and topics required for cutting-edge careers in science and technology; and providing hands-on laboratory experience for participants in a Master's Science Teaching Program, an upcoming accreditation program for Illinois teachers provided by the Department of Physics.