Research field overview

This is an outline of the areas of interest within our group. For further information look into the AMO People page and the links found there.

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
• 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