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Observing Quantum Particles in Perfect Order

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeed in recording single-atom resolved images of a highly correlated quantum gas.

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have evolved in the last years into an interdisciplinary tool for many-body solid state and quantum physics. But so far only limited possibilities were available to manipulate and to image the quantum gas on a microscopic scale. For the first time a team around Stefan Kuhr and Immanuel Bloch at MPQ has now succeeded in observing – atom by atom, lattice site by lattice site – such a strongly correlated system (Nature, 18 August 2010, DOI 10.1038/nature09378). The physicists saw that under certain conditions the atoms in the optical lattice arrange in a very regular distribution, with a fixed number of atom per lattice site. This is an important precondition for using these systems as quantum registers with individually addressable quantum bits in future quantum computers.

Meetings and Training Committee

Q-ESSENCE is committed to support (also in terms of a financial contribution) to training activities, such as summer/winter schools, conferences, and short-term visits of junior researchers.
The Meetings and Training Committee (MTC) coordinates, monitors, and recommends support for scientific meetings and training activities of the Q-Essence Consortium. The MTC members are:
 
  • Mario Ziman, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences,

Sites of interest

  • QIFT

FP7: FET Proactive Intiative: Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies(QI-FT)

cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/qift_en.html

  • Quantiki

Quantum information wiki and portal.

  • AlphaGalileo: research news

www.alphagalileo.org/

Greenhorn Meeting 2010, May 30 - June 2, 2010, Physikalisches Institut der ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Fri, 2010-06-18 14:02 - Donatella Rosetti

S. Brakhane (P6 Universität Bonn), talk, Spin dynamics of one and two atoms strongly couples to an optical resonator.

XIII International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, May 28 - June 1, 2010, Kiev, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Fri, 2010-06-18 13:58 - Donatella Rosetti

W. Alt (P6 Universität Bonn), invited talk, Coherent stepping, rocking and blinding of single atoms in an optical lattice.

SQuInT Twelfth Annual Meeting, Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Network, February 18 - 21, 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Fri, 2010-06-18 12:41 - Donatella Rosetti

D. Meschede (P6 Universität Bonn), invited talk, Quantum Interference Experiments with One and More Neutral Atoms.

Quantum information with Atoms, photons and solid state systems, June 17 - 19, 2010, Grenoble, France

Fri, 2010-06-18 12:40 - Donatella Rosetti

J.-M. Raimond (P2a CNRS), invited talk, Quantum state measurement and control in cavity QED.

 

DAMOP (Division of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics) 2010, May 25 - 29, 2010, Houston, Texas, USA

Fri, 2010-06-18 12:38 - Donatella Rosetti

J. Schmiedmayer (P12 TU Wien), talk, integrated Single Atom Detector.

J. Schmiedmayer (P12 TU Wien), talk, Coupling Spin Ensembles to Micro Wave photons.

I. Mazets (P12 TU Wien), talk, Thermalization in 1d many body systems.

R. Bücher (P12 TU Wien), talk, Probing Atom-Atom correlations by Single Atom Detection.

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