These techniques are used to explore new physics, as well as to facilitate implementation of potential applications in emerging areas such as quantum information science and in more traditional fields such as nonlinear optics. In the course of this work we are also exploring the emerging interfaces between quantum optics and atomic physics on the one hand, and condensed matter and mesoscopic physics on the other.| www.physics.harvard.edu
Markus Greiner's research is focused on experiments with ultracold atoms, in which strongly correlated many-body quantum systems can be experimentally realized in a well-controlled way. This opens the door for studying fundamental questions of modern condensed matter and quantum information physics with atomic physics experiments. By loading ultracold atoms into an optical lattice potential, he and his colleagues in Munich were able to observe a quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a...| www.physics.harvard.edu
