[Institut] Seminar Fizickog fakulteta

[Mirzeta Savic]

"Matter Wave Optics with Atoms and Molecules"

Professor Christopher P. Search
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hobokone, New Jersey, USA

Abstract: In recent years two of the most important trends in experiments 
with ultracold atomic gases has been the production of quantum degenerate 
gases of fermionic atoms and the coherent production of molecular dimers 
using a Feshbach resonance or photoassociation. While the realization of 
atomic Bose-Einstein condensates have exploited close analogies with 
conventional optics to extend the field of atom optics to the nonlinear and 
quantum regime, it has not been clear whether similar ideas can be usefully 
extended to fermionic atoms. We will address this point by discussing 
recent results in fermionic atom optics, including the quantum noise limits 
in atom interferometry and a study of purely fermionic four-wave mixing. We 
will also examine the coherent production molecules starting from a gas of 
fermionic atoms and show how it is possible to create molecules exhibiting 
novel quantum statistics.

Seminar Ce se odrzati u sredu 15. juna 2005. godine
u 13:30 casova,  fizicki amfiteatar (661), III sprat.