[Cnqo] Jun Ye: Visit and special colloquium

[Andrew Daley]

Dear Optics Division colleagues,

I just wanted to briefly remind you about the visit and special colloquium by Jun Ye tomorrow afternoon.

It’s a great pleasure to have Jun visiting us here at Strathclyde. As well has having made a number of major breakthroughs in our field in recent years (including producing Strontium clocks with an accuracy on a level of 10^-18, realising ultracold dipolar molecules in optical lattices, and investigating many-body physics with both systems), Jun is an excellent speaker. His colloquium will be aimed at a very broad audience, and will give an introduction to this field suitable for people from other disciplines, and students at all levels.

Please make sure that this is in your calendar, and encourage your friends to come along!

Very best regards,
Andrew

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Title: Making the World’s Best Clock
Time/Date: 2.30pm Thursday 13th March 2014
Venue: Colville 4.20

Abstract:
The relentless pursuit of spectroscopy resolution has been a key drive for many scientific and technological breakthroughs over the past century, including the invention of laser and the creation of ultracold matter.  State-of-the-art lasers now maintain optical phase coherence over many seconds and provide this piercing resolution across the entire visible spectrum. The new capability in control of light has enabled us to create and probe novel quantum matter via manipulation of dilute atomic and molecular gases at ultralow temperatures.

For the first time, we control the quantum states of more than 1000 atoms so precisely that we achieve a more accurate and more precise atomic clock than any existing atomic clocks. With the clock accuracy and stability both reaching the 10^-18 level, we now realize a single atomic clock with the best performance in both key ingredients necessary for a primary standard. We are also on the verge of integrating novel many-body quantum states into the frontiers of precision metrology, aiming to advance measurement beyond the standard quantum limit. Such advanced clocks will allow us to test the fundamental laws of nature and find applications among a wide range of technological frontiers.

http://www.strath.ac.uk/physics/research/colloquia/
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Professor Andrew Daley

Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
John Anderson Building
107 Rottenrow East
Glasgow G4 0NG, UK

http://qoqms.phys.strath.ac.uk
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