It gets cold outside in the winter, but the coldest spot around is Prof. Wright's lab in the basement of Wilder where an array of lasers trap and cool lithium atoms almost to absolute zero temperature. The Fermi degenerate atom cloud is then used to study superfluidity and other exotic properties of quantum phases of matter.
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Inviting postdoctoral applicants to submit applications to Neukom Fellows program hosted by the Physics and Astronomy department. Apply at neukom.dartmouth.edu.
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Congratulation to Professor Lorenza Viola on her appointment as a Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters.
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Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar recently gave a TEDx Talk entitled Analog Supercomputers: From Quantum Atom to Living Body.
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Physicists and philosophers from Austria, Canada, Holland, and the United States came together for The Gravity in the Quantum Regime conference to tackle issues at the intersection of quantum theory and gravitational physics. Topics discussed included tensor networks on curved spacetimes, gravitational decoherence, semiclassical gravity, and the role of ‘time’ in a quantum theory of gravity.
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