Ultra-cold atoms, ions, molecules and quantum technologies

✍ Scribed by Hélène Perrin; Robin Kaiser; Michèle Leduc

Publisher: EDP Sciences
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 192
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Physicists know how to produce gases at a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. The cooling methods apply not only to atoms but also to ions and molecules. This field of research has three times been awarded the Nobel Prize. The field experienced remarkable growth when experimentalists learned how to vary at will the interactions between particles, trapping them with optical tweezers or in optical gratings with adjustable geometry. Artificial crystals made of atoms or molecules can be built to simulate the structure of matter and elucidate some of its magnetic properties, hopefully contributing to the understanding of high-temperature superconductivity. The phenomenon of quantum entanglement is the basis for new devices for the storage and transmission of quantum information. Spectacular progress is constantly being made in metrology. For example, ultra-cold atom or ion clocks measure time to better than one second over the lifetime of the Universe. New types of industrial gravimeters and gyroscopes are improving the sensitivity of seismology and navigation in space. In addition, the extreme precision of the measurements allows tests of the fundamental laws of physics, such as quantum electrodynamics, Lorentz invariance or possible variations of the fundamental constants. The field of ultra-cold particles has now reached the stage where it provides insights in the fields of condensed matter, chemistry and even cosmology.

✦ Table of Contents

Preamble
Coordinators, Contributors, Sponsors and Acknowledgments
Preface: Fifteen miraculous years: bypassing impossibility theorems
Contents
Chapter 1 Cooling and Trapping Atoms
Chapter 2 Cold Atom Instruments and Metrology
Chapter 3 Single Atoms and Single Photons: Quantum Information Exchange
Chapter 4 Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms
Chapter 5 Waves and Disorder
Chapter 6 Trapping and Cooling Ions
Chapter 7 Cold and Ultracold Molecules
Chapter 8 Conclusion and Everything Else This Book Could also Have Been About…
Index

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