Experimental Research

• Trapped ions and cavity QED
• Ion trap quantum computing
  • Fabrication and design of ion trap architectures
  • Large scale ion trap arrays
  • Efficient shuttling protocols for trapped ion arrays
  • New entanglement schemes for ions
• Neutral atom trapping
• Electrons and atoms in quantum circuits
• Foundations of quantum mechanics
  • Coupled atomic-condensed matter systems in the quantum domain

Theoretical research

• Atom optics, BEC, and matter waves
  • Atom trapping and RF dressing
  • Raman scattering in BECs
  • BEC in one- and two-dimensional systems
  • Entanglement of atoms in a BEC using light
  • BECs as a source of squeezed light
• Theoretical quantum optics
  • Decohrence and entanglement
  • Quantum information processing (QIP)
• Quantum field theory applied to quantum optics
  • Cavity quantum electrodynamics
  • Electromagnetic forces in compressible dielectrics
  • Quantum vacuum effects
• Theory of molecular control, femtosecond processes, and wave packet dynamics
  • Molecular control
  • Light induced potentials and adiabatic passage