Quantum Initiative: Quantum Lunch

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.

The organizing committee includes Malcolm Boshier (P-21), Lukasz Cincio (T-4), Diego Dalvit (T-4), Changhyun Ryu (P-21) , Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4), Rolando Somma (T-4), Yigit Subasi (T-4), Christopher Ticknor (T-1), and Wojciech Zurek (T-4).

For more information, or to nominate a speaker, contact Yigit Subasi or Lukasz Cincio.

To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Kacy Hopwood.

Thursday, January 18, 2018
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker: Barry Garraway (University of Sussex)

Technical Host: Malcolm Boshier

TOPIC: Adiabatic dressed potentials for cold atoms with quantum technology applications

Abstract
Dressing atoms with radio-frequency and microwave radiation opens up new possibilities for cold atoms, and condensates, in new types of trap and in new topologies involving waveguides [1,2]. This is because of the flexibility inherent in the vector coupling of a magnetic dipole moment to electromagnetic fields which can be varied in time, frequency, orientation and space. This talk will introduce the adiabatic potentials and adiabatic trapping of atoms and give examples of the different types of atom trap together with applications to quantum technology. [1] Topical Review: Recent developments in trapping and manipulation of atoms with adiabatic potentials, B.M. Garraway and H. Perrin, J. Phys. B 49, 172001 (2016). [2] Trapping atoms with radio-frequency adiabatic potentials, H. Perrin and B.M. Garraway, in Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 66, (2017) pp. 181-262. (arXiv:1706.08063.)