Quantum and Nonlinear Atom Optics

Michael G. Moore

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michigan State University

4230 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg

East Lansing, MI 48824

Tel. (517) 884-5657

e-mail: mmoore@pa.msu.edu

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Group Members:

Michael Moore (Assistant Professor/group leader)

Dr. Yuping Huang (Graduated, now a postdoc with Prem Kumar at Northwestern)

Martin Schuetz (Graduated with MS, continuing his studies in Germany.)

Jeff Kost (Graduated with BS, now a graduate student at the University of Arizona)

Tri Cao Doan [PhD Student]

Michael Kilgroe [PhD Student]

Collaborators:

        Carlo Piermarocchi [Michigan State University] and Monique Combescot [CNRS]: Overlap between AMO and CMP quantum optics

       Amichay Vardi [Ben Gurion University]: Double-well BEC/Bose-Josephson junction


Research Areas:

Matter-wave Amplification and Superradiance
Optical Quantum information Processing with Single-Atom Qubits
Quantum Interferometry with Double-Well Bose-Einstein Condensates
Nonlinear Optics with atomic vapors

Acknowledgements:

Support provided by:

NSF atomic theory grant PHY0653373
US-Israeli Binational Science Foundation grant 2008141

Recent Publications:

Optical traps for electron produced by Pauli blocking, M. Combescot, M. G. Moore and C. Piermarocchi, submitted to Euro. Phys. Lett. (2010).

Optimal Gaussian squeezed states for atom-interferometry in the presence of phase Diffusion, I. Tikhonenkov, M. G. Moore, and A. Vardi, to appear in Phys. Rev. A. arXiv:1008.4114v1 [cond-mat.quant-gas] (2010).

Trionic optical potential for electrons in semiconductors, M. J. A. Schuetz, M. G. Moore, and C. Piermarocchi, to appear in Nature Physics. DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS1775 (2010).

Nonlinear phase-dynamics in a driven Bose-Josephson junction, E. Boukobza, M. G. Moore, D. Cohen, and A. Vardi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240402 (2010).

Ultra-bright omni-directional collective emission of correlated photon pairs from atomic vapors, Y. P. Huang and M. G. Moore, Phys. Rev. A 81, 033807 (2010).

Two-Qubit Conditional Phase Gate in Laser-Excited Semiconductor Quantum Dots Using the Quantum Zeno Effect, K. J. Xu, Y. P. Huang, M. G. Moore, and C. Piermarocchi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037401 (2009).

Optimized Double-Well Quantum Interferometry with Gaussian Squeezed States, Y. P. Huang and M. G. Moore, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 250406 (2008).

Interaction- and Measurement-Free Quantum Zeno Gates for Universal Computation with Single-Atom and Single-Photon Qubits, Y. P. Huang and M. G. Moore, Phys. Rev. A 77, 062332 (2008).

On-Demand Generation of Entanglement of Atomic Qubits Via Optical Interferometry, Y. P. Huang and M. G. Moore, Phys. Rev. A 77, 032349 (2008).

Creation, Detection, and Decoherence of Macroscopic Quantum Superposition States in Double-Well Bose-Einstein Condenates, Y. P. Huang and M. G. Moore, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023606 (2006).

Pseudopotential Analog for Zero-Range Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonance, Phys. Rev. Lett.. 96, 100401 (2006).

Courses:

PHY851: Quantum Mechanics I
PHY852: Quantum Mechanics II

Links:
MSU Physics & Astronomy Main Page
MSU Main Page