Sunday, February 17, 2013
Room 308 (Hynes Convention Center)
With the discovery of quantum mechanics came the possibility of using
atoms as building blocks of ultra-precise clocks. With our emerging
capability of manipulating cold atoms with exquisite control we are
not only pushing time-frequency standards, but also demonstrating
that an atomic clock can be used as one of the most precise probes of
the quantum world and of complex many-body phenomena.
atoms as building blocks of ultra-precise clocks. With our emerging
capability of manipulating cold atoms with exquisite control we are
not only pushing time-frequency standards, but also demonstrating
that an atomic clock can be used as one of the most precise probes of
the quantum world and of complex many-body phenomena.
Reference:
Science 331, 1043 (2011)