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, continuuing his studies in Germany.)
Jeff Kost (Undergraduate Student)
Tri Cao Doan [Graduate Student]
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:
Ultra-bright omni-directional collective emission of correlated photon pairs from atomic vapors, Y. P. Huang and M. G. Moore, submitted to Phys. Rev. A (2009).
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