SCHRÖDINGER LECTURE SERIES 2007
Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer
TU-Wien, Atominstitut Österreichischer Universitäten
"Atom Chips: Integrated circuits for matter waves"
Monday, 3 December 2007, 4 pm, University College Cork, Kane Building, Room G7
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 4 pm, University of Limerick
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 8 pm, Trinity College Dublin, Schrödinger Lecture Theater
The Schrödinger Lecture Series was inaugurated on 6 December 1995 in commemoration of a series of three lectures delivered by Professor Erwin Schrödinger in February 1943 in the Physical Laboratory Lecture Theatre at Trinity College Dublin. Since then, Schrödinger Lectures - at Trinity College Dublin, University of Limerick and University College Cork - have been organized on a yearly basis in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy Dublin and with the kind support of the Austrian National Bank.
Jörg Schmiedmayer was born in Vienna on 13th August 1960 and graduated from the Technical University in Vienna in 1987. He held several (guest and full professor) teaching and research positions in Vienna, Innsbruck, Heidelberg, Beijing as well as at MIT and Harvard University. Since 2006 he is Full Professor and Chair for Experimental Physics at the Atominstitut Österreichischer Universitäten in Vienna.
He received many fellowships and prizes, among them the CERN summer research fellowship, the APART fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Science, the Viktor Hess prize from the Austrian Physical Society, the European Optics Prize from the European Optical Society (together with Anton Zeilinger and colleagues) and the Wittgenstein Prize. He has published widely and his research interests are Atom Chips and Matter Wave Optics.
“Atom Chips: Integrated circuits for matter waves”
Atom Chips aim at the miniaturization and integration of quantum optics and atomic physics on to a single chip, analogous to electronic circuits. It combines the best of both worlds: The perfected manipulation techniques from atomic physics with the capability of nanofabrication. Atom Chips promise to allow coherent manipulation of matter waves on the quantum level by using high spatial resolution electro magnetic potentials from structures on the atom chip or by employing adiabatic radio frequency (RF) or micro wave (MW) potentials.
The talk will give an overview of the recent advances in the concepts, fabrication and experimental realization of Atom Chips by illustrating the many different tasks that can be performed using ultra cold or Bose-Einstein condensed (BECs) atoms manipulated on the chip. These range from measuring magnetic and electric fields with unprecedented sensitivity by observing the density modulations in trapped highly elongated 1d BECs, to fundamental studies of the universal properties in low dimensional systems like non equilibrium dynamics and coherence decay in one dimensional super fluids. The talk will give an overview of the recent advances and experiments.
This work was supported by the European Union MC network Atom Chips, integrated project SCALA, the DIP the FWF and the Wittgenstein Prize.
For further information on the Schrödinger Lecture 2007 please visit the website at TCD (http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Schrodinger/) and/or contact the respective venues:
University College Cork - Síle Nic Chormaic, S.NicChormaic@ucc.ie
Limerick University - Vincent Casey, vincent.casey@ul.ie
Trinity College Dublin - Colm Stephens, stephec@tcd.ie
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