Center for Ultracold Atoms

超冷原子中心

• 批准号: 0071311
• 负责人: Daniel Kleppner
• 金额: $ 891.69万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0071311&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Ultracold; Atoms

This award provides infrastructure and research funding for the Center for Ultracold Atoms, a joint effort between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University designed to take advantage of the recent dramatic progress in atom optics on the one hand and in methods for creating coherent atoms on the other to explore opportunities for scientific advances and new technologies that would be difficult to implement within the context of individual investigators working in isolation. The goals of the Center include developing coherent atom sources of unprecedented intensity, devising techniques for manipulating the atoms for scientific and technological applications, developing methods for trapping and cooling new species of atoms, studying surface interactions with coherent atoms, loading atoms into surface waveguide structures, and developing methods for new types of spectroscopy. The Center will reach out to the scientific community with a substantial visitors program that will encourage senior and junior scientists to participate in the research and carry the Center's expertise elsewhere. A companion educational project is also being undertaken with the Museum of Science in Boston and Wellesley College. This project is jointly supported by the Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Plasma Physics Program, the Condensed Matter Physics Program, and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.

该奖项为超速原子中心提供了基础设施和研究资金，这是马萨诸塞州技术研究所与哈佛大学之间的共同努力，旨在利用一方面的原子光学方面的最新进步，以及在对其他研究中探索新技术的机会，以探索与其他研究人员在互动中的竞争者，从而在其他方面创造了连贯的原子。 该中心的目标包括开发前所未有的强度的相干原子来源，设计用于操纵科学和技术应用原子的技术，开发用于捕获和冷却新原子种类的方法，研究表面与相干原子的表面相互作用，将原子负载，将原子负载到表面电波结构中，并开发了新型类型的光谱。 该中心将通过一项实质性的访问者计划与科学界联系，该计划将鼓励高级和初级科学家参与研究，并将中心的专业知识带到其他地方。 波士顿和韦尔斯利学院的科学博物馆也正在进行一个伴侣教育项目。 该项目由原子，分子，光学和等离子体物理计划，冷凝物理学计划以及数学和物理科学局的多学科活动办公室共同支持。