Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms

We use laser-cooling and trapping of neutral atoms as the basis for a wide variety of applications to fundamental and practical problems. Our laboratory pioneered many of the key techniques used to create cold atomic gases, like deceleration of atomic beams, atom trapping, sub-Doppler cooling, optical lattices, etc. Today we use cold atomic gases, often quantum degenerate systems, to study a variety of applications and phenomena including quantum information processing, quantum simulation, and quantum metrology. Our group is part...