Cold Atoms Research: Overview & Developments

[Cygni]

Hello PF readers,

Could anyone enlighten me on this specific field of research in physics? I am particularly interested how new/old this field is, current developments, major theories/models/predictions motivating the research, obstacles if any, the saturation of the field?

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,

Cygni

 

[jf22901]

Hello PF readers,

Could anyone enlighten me on this specific field of research in physics? I am particularly interested how new/old this field is, current developments, major theories/models/predictions motivating the research, obstacles if any, the saturation of the field?

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,

Cygni

Hi Cygni.

I'm afraid don't know much about this area myself, but I notice you're from the UK, so thought I'd mention that I'm a student at the Open University, and I know they are involved in cold atoms research here. You might find some useful stuff at this link: http://physics.open.ac.uk/~sbergamini/index.html"

 

[Quark_Chowder]

What do you mean by "cold atoms?"

 

[flemmyd]

low temp physics?

 

[Cygni]

What do you mean by "cold atoms?"

For example trapping and cooling atoms very close to the surface of microfabricated devices, so called Atom Chips.

The physics of low dimensional bosonic and fermionic quantum gases, gases with dipolar interactions, and non-equilibrium quantum dynamics and in applications like sensors, atom-surface and atom-light interfaces.

The above vaguely describes the definition of cold or ultracold atom field of research.

 

[atyy]

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