Center: JILA-PFC: Comprehension and Control of Emerging Complexity at the Quantum Frontier

中心：JILA-PFC：量子前沿新兴复杂性的理解和控制

• 批准号: 2317149
• 负责人: Ana Rey
• 金额: $ 2520万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2029-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317149&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; JILA; PFC; Comprehension; Control

The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) award to the JILA-PFC will develop and enhance control over light-matter interactions to advance investigations of an array of quantum systems of increasing size and complexity, ranging from assemblies of ultracold atoms and molecules to real materials and biological systems. In pursuit of these advances, the center will develop and apply a broad range of state-of-the-art light sources, including sources of highly non-classical light, vacuum ultraviolet lasers and single-photon sources, while simultaneously striving to improve cooling and measurement techniques. These new tools will permit researchers to shed light on open questions in many-body physics relevant to disciplines ranging from atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, to condensed matter physics, chemistry, and biology, and to advance frontier precision measurements targeting issues in fundamental physics. The center program will also provide graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with cutting-edge expertise in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) related physics, and it will develop tools and techniques to enhance the Nation's technological infrastructure. The JILA-PFC will contribute to connecting scientific communities by hosting workshops and schools and through the JILA visitor program and will continue its highly successful education and outreach efforts to attract the next generation of all students into science. The JILA-PFC research is organized around four interconnected major activities that are in turn built upon closely intertwined aspects of AMO physics. The first will focus on the understanding and manipulation of interactions between quantum particles, from pristine arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules manipulated at the level of individual constituent particles, to complex materials studied via ultrafast probes. The second will broadly advance the frontier of light-science and light-matter interactions via the development of novel light sources. The third will seek to control quantum states of increasingly complex molecules for practical and fundamental applications including searches for new physics beyond the standard model. The fourth area seeks opportunities to exchange ideas and technologies that could lead to projects outside of the central focus of the JILA-PFC, but which would benefit either the core work of the PFC or other areas of science.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

物理前沿中心 (PFC) 授予 JILA-PFC 的奖项将开发和增强对光与物质相互作用的控制，以推进对一系列尺寸和复杂性不断增加的量子系统的研究，范围从超冷原子和分子的组装到真实材料和生物系统。为了实现这些进步，该中心将开发和应用各种最先进的光源，包括高度非经典光源、真空紫外激光器和单光子源，同时努力改善冷却和测量技术。这些新工具将使研究人员能够阐明多体物理学中与原子、分子和光学（AMO）物理学、凝聚态物理学、化学和生物学等学科相关的悬而未决的问题，并推进针对目标的前沿精确测量基础物理学问题。该中心项目还将为研究生和博士后学者提供原子、分子和光学（AMO）相关物理学的尖端专业知识，并将开发工具和技术来增强国家的技术基础设施。 JILA-PFC 将通过举办研讨会和学校以及 JILA 访客计划，为连接科学界做出贡献，并将继续其非常成功的教育和推广工作，以吸引下一代所有学生进入科学领域。 JILA-PFC 研究围绕四项相互关联的主要活动进行组织，而这些活动又建立在 AMO 物理学紧密交织的方面之上。第一个将侧重于理解和操纵量子粒子之间的相互作用，从在单个组成粒子水平上操纵的原始超冷原子和分子阵列，到通过超快探针研究的复杂材料。第二个将通过新型光源的开发广泛推进光科学和光与物质相互作用的前沿。第三个目标将寻求控制日益复杂的分子的量子态，以实现实际和基础应用，包括寻找标准模型之外的新物理学。第四个领域寻求交流想法和技术的机会，这些想法和技术可能会导致 JILA-PFC 中心重点之外的项目，但有利于 PFC 的核心工作或其他科学领域。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命和通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，该项目被认为值得支持。