Atomtronics: A Very Short Introduction

Friday, February 17, 2017: 11:00 AM-11:15 AM
Room 308 (Hynes Convention Center)
Pick up a smart phone, and you engage a dense network of atomic clocks, the most distant maybe
20,000 km away in Earth orbit. Atomtronics seeks to shift even more work to atomic media, using ultracold atoms from Bose-Einstein condensates as the carriers of mass, spin and information in circuit architectures – like the roles that electrons play in conventional electronics. We’ll look at a sample of recent applications in quantum memory and magnets, superfluid circuits and superaccurate
clocks, and introduce the audience to contemporary researchers and literature in the field.
Organizer:
Anice Anderson, Private Engineering Consulting
Moderator:
Jeannette M. Wing, Microsoft Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Speakers:
Charles W. Clark, Joint Quantum Institute
Atomtronics: A Very Short Introduction