It gets cold outside in the winter, but the coldest spot around is in Prof. Wright's lab in the basement of Wilder where an array of lasers traps these small clouds of lithium atoms and cools them almost to absolute zero temperature. The pictures show how the temperature of a cloud is measured: by releasing it and allowing it to expand for a fraction of a second. Colder clouds expand less, because the atoms are moving more slowly. The smallest cloud has a temperature of less than one...
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The Neukom Fellows program is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program at Dartmouth that may provide another means of working with or being mentored by faculty in our department. Please see the position announcement at ...
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Congratulation to Professor Lorenza Viola on her appointment as a Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters starting September 1st.
Read more at https://journals.aps.org/prl/staff#edboard.
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Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar recently gave a TEDx Talk entitled Analog Supercomputers: From Quantum Atom to Living Body. The video can be seen here.
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The Gravity in the Quantum Regime workshop took place in Wilder Laboratory, Dartmouth College on June 28th-29th, 2018. This workshop brought together researchers tackling theoretical issues at the intersection of quantum theory and gravitational physics. Read more at https://news.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=51966.
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Great turn out for the Department of Physics and Astronomy. We had 14 senior honor theses this year. Congratuations Class of 2018.
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Nobel Laureate Jerome Friedman visited Dartmouth on May 9th 2018 and gave a lecture titled “Are We Really Made of Quarks?.” Read more at https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/05/nobel-laureate-physics-visit-dar...
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"I have worked on a lot of different and interesting problems, changing my research focus when something new grabbed my attention. I wish someone had told me early on that doing this was okay." says Karen Daniels '94 in a recent Physics News highlight: "Looking for Failure" : ...
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Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
A recently proposed experiment would confirm that gravity is a quantum force and Dartmouth Professor Miles Blencowe is quoted throughout the article published by Quanta Magazine.
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Chandrasekhar Ramanathan’s group was well represented at the APS March Meeting in Los Angeles. Below are highlights from the Ramathan group.
Undergraduate Kent Ueno presented his research on Entanglement Spectral Statistics.
Graduate student Lihuang Zhu receiving one...
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