Cold Atom Physics
'How Do Lasers Help Create Both the Coldest and Hottest Spots on Earth?' LaserFest 2010
'Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe.' W.D. Phillips, ONR talk 2010 (video)
Popular Papers (written for a general audience) from Ketterle's group.
'Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms.' W. D. Phillips. Rev. Mod. Phys. 70, 721–741 (1998)
'Laser Trapping of Neutral Particles.' Steven Chu. Scientific American, December 2008
'When atoms behave as waves: Bose-Einstein condensation and the atom laser.' W. Ketterle. Nobel Lecture, 2001
'Why condensed matter physicists should pay attention to atomic physics.' W.D. Phillips. Physics 6, 44 2013 (video)
'Experimental methods of ultracold atomic physics.' D.M. Stamper-Kurn, J.H. Thywissen. arXiv:1111.6196 (2011)
'Making an ultracold gas.' D. Jervis and J.H. Thywissen. arxiv:1401.7659 (2014)
Laser cooling and trapping. Van der Straaten and Metcalf. Springer-Verlag, 2001.
'Laser cooling and trapping.' W.D. Phillips. ITAMP/B2 Institute Winter Graduate School on AMO Physics (2012). (video)
Cold atoms: A field enabled by light, L. Fallani, A. Kastberg. EPL 110 53001 (2015)
Introduction to ultracold physics, L.J. LeBlanc (Alberta)
'Quantum optics and frontiers of physics: The third quantum revolution.' A. Celi, A. Sanpera, V. Ahufinger, M. Lewenstein. arXiv:1601.04616 (2016)
Ultracold Atom News, created by A. Danilova and J.H. Thywissen at the University of Toronto. Includes a list of upcoming conferences.
Bose-Einstein condensates (spinors, vortices, etc.)
Review Articles
'Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates.' Ketterle, Durfee and Stamper-Kurn. arxiv:cond-mat/9904034 (1999)
'Spinor condensates and light scattering from Bose-Einstein condensates.' Stamper-Kurn and Ketterle. arxiv:cond-mat/0005001 (2000)
'Vortices in multicomponent BECs.' Kasamatsu, Tsubota, Ueda. International Journal of Modern Physics B, 19, 1835 (2005)
'Symmetry Classification of Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates.' Kawaguchi and Ueda. arxiv:1109.0400 (2011)
'Spinor Bose gases: Explorations of symmetries, magnetism and quantum dynamics.' Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, Masahito Ueda. arXiv:1205.1888v1 (2012)
'Bose Gases with Nonzero Spin.' Ueda. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 3, 263 (2012)
'Nobel lecture: Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute gas; the first 70 years and some recent experiments.' E.A. Cornell and C.E. Wieman. Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 875-93 (2002).
'The topological theory of defects in ordered media.' Mermin. Rev. Mod. Phys. 51, 591 (1979)
'Coherent manipulations of atoms using laser light.' B. Shore. Acta Physica Slovaca 58, 243–486 (2010)
BEC Introduction site, Dallin Durfree & Wolfgang Ketterle.
'Simplified system to create a Bose-Einstein condensate.' H. J. Lewandowski, D. L. Whitaker, and E. A. Cornell, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 132, 309 (2003).
BEC special issue from NIST
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases. Christopher Pethick, Henrik Smith. Cambridge University Press, 2002
Twisted Photons. Juan P. Torres, Lluis Torner, editors. John Wiley & Sons, 2011
Fundamentals and New Frontiers of Bose-Einstein Condensation. Masahito Ueda. World Scientific, 2010
Bose-Einstein condensation. Pitaevskii and Stringari. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Atom optics. Pierre Meystre. Springer, 2001.
'Many-body physics with ultracold gases.' Bloch, Dalibard, Zwerger. Rev. Mod. Phys 80, 885 (2008)
The BEC Vortex BibTex Project. Brian Anderson group, University of Arizona.
"Satyendra Nath Bose and Bose-Einstein Statistics," Optics & Photonics News, April 2013
"Atomic physics: Polar exploration," Lindsay J. LeBlanc. Nature 505, 627 (2014)
"Synthetic Fields for Neutral Atoms," William D. Phillips, CCQO Colloquium March 2015 (video)
Ultracold polar molecules
Review Articles
'Cold and Ultracold Molecules: Science, Technology, and Applications.' L.D. Carr, D. DeMille, R.V. Krems and J. Ye. NJP 11, 055029 (2009) or arXiv:0904.3175
'Ultracold Molecules Under Control.' G. Quemener and P.S. Julienne. Chem. Rev. (2012)
'Ultracold Molecules Formed by Photoassociation: Heteronuclear Dimers, Inelastic Collisions, and Interactions with Ultrashort Laser Pulses.' J. Ulmanis, J. Deiglmayr, M. Repp, R. Wester , M. Weidemüller.Chemical Reviews 112, 4890 (2012)
"Ultracold Molecules: Their Formation and Application to Quantum Computing," R Côté. Advances in Chemical Physics, Quantum Information and Computation for Chemistry. Sabre Kais, ed. Wiley, 2014.
'Hot Prospects for Ultracold Molecules.' Barbara Goss Levi. Physics Today, September 2000.
'Ultracold Molecules as Quantum Simulators.' John Doyle. Serious Science 2014 (video).
'Physicists Hot for Ultracold.' Laura Sanders. Science News, December 2008.
'Ultracold Molecules.' Phil Schewe. AIP Physics News Update 875, 1 (2008).
Press release about the Bigelow group's Thin WIre electroStatic Trap
'Lumino-Refrigeration: Deep Cooling Polar Molecules by Optical Pumping.' Optics in 2012, Optics and Photonics News, December 2012 [pdf]
Cold Molecules. Roman Krems, Bretislav Friedrich, William C Stwalley. CRC Press, 2010.
Technical
Labscript Suite. "A scripted control system for autonomous hardware-timed experiments." P. T. Starkey, C. J. Billington, S. P. Johnstone, M. Jasperse, K. Helmerson, L. D. Turner and R. P. Anderson. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 84, 085111 (2013).
'Laser shutter using a hard disk drive voice-coil actuator' -- R.E. Scholten, University of Melbourne
Boat Anchor Manual Archive -- manuals for older equipment
RPC Photonics -- vendor of vortex spiral phase plate
AOM alignment -- D.J. McCarren, Durham University. See also Isomet application notes
Hudson Lab Wiki -- AMO vendors, how-to's, etc. from Eric Hudson's group (UCLA)
Thywissen Lab Wiki -- AMO vendors, how-to's, etc. from Joseph Thywissen's group (Toronto)
Photonics Buyers' Guide -- optics vendors
NASA Workmanship Standards -- visual guide to electronics
Laser safety -- from Univ. Victoria
Introductory resources
Daniel Steck (Oregon) course notes on optics, quantum optics, atomic physics
Schrodinger's Killer App (quantum computing). J. Dowling. CRC Press, 2013.
Nobel Prizes in Optics from OSA
Feynman Lectures on Physics, free online
Landau & Lifshitz, free online
Exploring Quantum Physics Coursera Lectures (Charles Clark & Victor Galitski)
Education, Outreach, and Diversity
Magneto-Optical Trap for Undergraduate Teaching Lab in the Department of Physics. Run in part by the Bigelow group.
Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Lab Course for undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Run by S. Lukishova in the Institute of Optics.
NSF-REU at UR -- summer undergraduate research internships sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
McNair Summer Fellowship -- summer undergraduate research internships & post-baccalaureate achievement program.
Undergraduate research projects in our group.
Symposium on Undergraduate Research at Frontiers in Optics -- sponsored by APS-DLS, OSA, and various companies.
Rochester Symposium for Physics Students (RSPS) -- regional undergraduate conference at UR.
Pre-College Experience in Physics (PREP) -- summer enrichment program for local high school girls at UR.
Rochester Scholars -- multidisciplinary summer enrichment program for area high school students at UR.
Laboratory for Laser Energetics High School Summer Research Fellowship -- full-time research experience program for rising high school seniors.
Photon Camp -- optics outreach program for high school students from the Institute of Optics.
OSA/FiO Educator's Day-- middle & high school science teacher workshop at Frontiers in Optics annual meeting. Includes Optics Suitcase.
The Institute of Optics Summer School -- One-week or 2.5-day optics lectures & lab courses.
Photographic Preservation and Collections Management Masters at UR
Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM)
National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals
CAT Group & UR
Undergraduate research projects in our group
Nanoscience of daguerreotype research in collaboration with the George Eastman House.
Photos of the CAT group's research and lab
Talks: UR Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, The Institute of Optics Colloquium, UR Center for Coherence & Quantum Science (CCQS) Seminar, Photons After Dark Colloquium at RIT, UR Live Events
URNano -- Integrated Nanosystems Center, a nanofabrication and imaging facility at UR
National Science Foundation -- Division of Experimental Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
American Physical Society Division of Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP) and Division of Laser Science (DLS)
NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and International Space Station (ISS) Cold Atom Laboratory, Consortium for Ultracold Atoms in Space, and The ISS Research Program.
Cicero Word Generator (control software available on GitHub)