Propagation and properties of solitonic matterwaves in atomic metamaterials

该项目旨在开发和研究与光晶体（称为光学晶格）相互作用的孤子物质波。该项目计划使用一种独特的设备来研究孤子物质波如何在基态和激发态传播，这些物质波如何相互作用，以及我们如何制造新的光学材料以获得不同的，可能有用的新行为。虽然拟议的研究在本质上是纯粹的基础，但该项目有可能影响量子传感器领域，预计孤子物质波将提供超过传统原子源的收益。

This project aims to develop and investigate solitonic matter waves interacting with crystals of light, known as optical lattices. Using a unique apparatus, the project plans to investigate how solitonic matter waves propagate in their ground and excited states, how those matter waves interact with each other, and how we can manufacture new optical materials to obtain different, and potentially useful, new behaviour. Although the proposed studies are purely fundamental in nature, the project has the potential to affect the field of quantum sensors, where solitonic matter waves are predicted to offer gains over traditional atom sources.