In scientific studies, researchers often experience financial difficulties. He received financial support for the "Ultra Cold Atoms ...
In scientific studies, researchers often experience financial difficulties. He received financial support for the "Ultra Cold Atoms Center", as it is known in Turkish. The MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) has been awarded a grant by the US National Science Foundation's Centers for the Frontiers in Physics program to continue investigating, understanding, and exploiting enigmatic phenomena at the frontiers of physics.
CUA, quantum gases consisting of atoms and molecules; exotic arrays of atoms in Rydberg states containing a single highly excited electron; atom-like impurities in semiconductors; and is conducting experiments with an “unusual” connection of light and matter known as “strong coupling,” which has potential for new applications in measurement, sensing, and networking. The purpose of CUA is to enable better control and programming of quantum entangled systems consisting of atoms and molecules at low temperatures.
“We are excited to continue funding the Center for UltraCold Atoms at MIT and Harvard, which is making a huge difference to our community of researchers,” says Professor Wolfgang Ketterle. Ketterle also notes that it is important to ensure adequate funding for new projects and young researchers joining CUA.
“CUA is a cornerstone of MIT's strength in quantum science and measurement, and the renewal of the CUA fellowship is great news,” adds Department of Physics Chair Deepto Chakrabarty.
CUA is one of four US research centers supported by a total of $76 million; the other three recipients are the University of Chicago, Caltech and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Large research teams are brought together under the NSF Centers for Physics Frontiers program to work on projects that require new types of equipment, years of focused effort, and a variety of scientific and technical skills. NSF currently actively funds eight centers in physics.
To educate future physics leaders and support the scientific workforce in the United States, these centers offer comprehensive training and mentoring programs for graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral students. The centers also aim to increase middle and high school students' interest in STEM-related professions through outreach programs, workshops, summer schools, and educational games and films.
“NSF Physics Frontiers Center research teams have produced remarkable new states of matter and the first evidence of the gravitational wave background of the universe, among many other groundbreaking discoveries,” said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. “The centers recently funded by NSF are all bold collaborative attempts to break into fascinating new landscapes of scientific research, despite differences in various areas of expertise. To seize revolutionary opportunities, we must look around us, explore new horizons made possible by technological developments, and use new technologies.
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