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测和测量阶段。原子、分子和光学物理(AMO)和凝聚态物理(CM)的进展使得人们能够探索对量子系统的控制，以实现量子工程的目标。通过这个物理前沿中心奖，联合量子研究所的物理前沿中心(PFC@JQI)将在前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。这将通过使用跨越AMO和CM的各种平台的复杂建造和材料检查来完成。PFC@JQI将继续通过暑期女孩计划等项目接触到代表不足的群体，这是一个为高中生提供的为期两周的强化动手物理项目。该中心还将参与其他扩展和教育项目，面向从普通公众到K-12学生的研究生教育。PFC@JQI将在AMO和CM的界面上调查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(其中能带决定物质的性质和行为)的研究，如Majorana费米子物理和可编程拓扑物质的新平台；利用量子光学系统，通过原子或光子介质中的光子之间的耦合或由其中介的方式，探索多体物理；以及通过与实验者和理论家密切合作，利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.