1. Presentation
AMO Group - Experiment
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2. AMO - Experiment Experimental AMO Quantum Optics Cavity QED
Correlated Photons
Francium Spectroscopy
Anapole moment measurement at Stony Brook
Quantum Information
Quantum interconnects
Rydberg atoms
Ultracold Plasmas
Dynamics
Plasma/Rydberg gas interplay
Quantum degenerate gases
Quantum transport in optical lattices
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3. Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
Faculty
William D. Phillips – Distinguished University Professor*
Luis A. Orozco – Professor
Steven L. Rolston – Professor
Visiting Faculty
Julio Gea-Banacloche – Professor (U. Arkansas)
Perry Rice – Professor (U. Miami, Ohio)
Trey Porto - Research Scientist (NIST)
Post-Docs
Daniel Freimund (Orozco)
Daniela Manoel (Orozco)
Chad Fertig (Rolston/NIST)
Kevin Teo (Rolston/recently moved to UCSF medical phys.)
4 UMD Postdocs working full time at NIST (Ryu, McCormick, Vaziri, Tian)
* “on leave”
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4. AMO Graduate Students Undergraduates Faculty History
2 Students (Cold Plasma)
4 Students (Quantum Optics)
3 Students (Optical Lattices)
2 Students (Fr)
1 Student (quantum info - NIST)
Undergraduates
2 Students (Rolston)
1 Student (Orozco)
2 Students from Mexico (summer-Orozco)
Faculty History
Phillips – Adjunct 1990, Full 2000, Distinguished 2003
Rolston – Adjunct 1995, Full 2003
Orozco – Full 2003
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5. AMO Physics - Research Program
Cavity QED (Orozco)
Dynamics of entanglement
Quantum Feedback
Anapole moment in Fr (Orozco)
Spectroscopy
PNC
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6. AMO Physics - Research Program
Ultracold Plasmas (Rolston)
Dynamics of UCPs
Coupled Rydberg/plasma
Rydbergs for Quantum Logic (Rolston)
Blockade phenomena
Conditional Logic gates
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7. AMO Physics - Research Program
Quantum Transport in Optical Lattices (Rolston)
Controllable disorder
Quantum-classical transition
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8. AMO Physics - Research Program
Research at NIST (Phillips)
Atom Optics/ BEC
Optical Tweezers
Photoassociation Spectroscopy
Correlated Photons
Quantum Info w/ Neutral Atoms
UMD graduate student (Huckans)
Collaboration with UMD (Rolston)
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9. AMO - Research Program Future Directions
(Orozco, Rolston, Porto (NIST), Hill (IPST))
Spin squeezing
Quantum control of entanglement
Quantum Interconnects
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10. AMO Support Funding (on campus) Orozco Rolston Rolston/Orozco
Cavity QED NSF ~ 154 k$/year
Fr Anapole NSF ~ 144 k$
Rolston
Cold Plasma NSF ~ 163 k$
Opt. Lattice NASA ~ 80 k$
Rolston/Orozco
Quantum interconnects (NSF-ITR) ~ 110 k$
Quant. info. w/ neutral atoms (NIST/ARDA) ~ 180 k$
(plus ~ 380 k$ for off-campus (NIST))
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11. AMO Collaborations Francium Collaboration
2 Physicists
UMD + SUNY Stony Brook
Quantum Information Collaboration - NSA/ARDA
12 Physicists
NIST + UMD + UNM + UA + Darmsadt + Inst. D’Optique
US/Italy collaboration
4 Physicists
Univ. of Pisa + UMD
UMD/ Univ. Innsbruck
IPST (Wendell Hill)
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12. AMO Awards and Recognition Phillips Nobel Prize APS Fellow OSA Fellow
Institute of Physics (UK) Fellow
Orozco
Guggenheim Fellow
Rolston
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13. AMO Limiting Issues Group is too small. We need junior faculty.
There is a negotiation for a senior theorist (target of opportunity).
Need to establish the Joint Quantum Institute with NIST.
Encourages Phillips’ involvement
Encourages interaction with Condensed Matter
NIST researchers can be a great LOCAL resource
Space for growth will be problematic.
Already lab and offices are in different buildings.
Need significant presence to compete for quality students.
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14. Encouraging AMO at UMD Started Graduate AMO course 2004
Hope to offer biannually (more frequent than normal)
NIST staff will teach in Fall 2005
Gave undergraduate AMO special topics course
Started AMO Seminar
Run occasional joint QCI/AMO seminars
Submitted NSF-CCLI proposal to revamp junior optics lab (PHYS375)
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