Harnessing quantum optical phenomena in cold atomic ensembles

光可以介导冷原子和致密原子系综之间的强烈相互作用，使得原子合作地对光做出响应。这些系统的实验室和数值模拟的一些最新研究结果与教科书中关于电介质中标准光学的知识是不相容的。在这个项目中，我们希望解释其中的一些缺陷，并开发一个新的平台，利用这些强相互作用来操纵光。单个量子粒子在实验中已经被精确控制了很长一段时间。然而，技术上重要的多粒子系统迄今为止还超出了这种控制。该计划的目标是改善对原子系综的控制和操纵，并指导实验人员开发基于量子物理学的更好的下一代光学设备和技术。

Light can mediate strong interactions between cold and dense atomic ensembles, such that the atoms respond to light cooperatively. Some of the recent findings in experimental laboratories and numerical simulations for these systems have been incompatible with the textbook wisdom of standard optics in a dielectric medium. In this programme we want to explain some of these failings and also to develop a novel platform for utilizing these strong interactions in the manipulation of light. Individual quantum particles have now been accurately controlled in experiments already for quite some time. However, technologically important many-particle systems have so far been beyond such control. The goal of the programme is to improve the control and manipulation of atomic ensembles and to guide experimentalists to develop better next generation optical devices and technologies based on quantum physics.