"The Coolest Place in the Universe: Cooling and Trapping Atoms with Lasers"

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Title 00:00:00
Title 00:01:24
Laser cooling atoms 00:01:39
Quantum Tornadoes Near Absolute Zero 00:01:56
U-M Trapped Ion Quantum Computing 00:02:15
The world circa 1920 00:02:40
The world circa 1920 (2) 00:03:23
Fifth Solvay Conference 1927 00:04:06
Everyday waves: Sound waves 00:04:54
Waves can add 00:05:42
Interference - you can hear it! 00:06:12
You can see intereference too 00:07:29
double slit experiment for particles (1) 00:08:24
double slit experiment for particles (2) 00:09:04
double slit experiment for particles (3) 00:09:17
double slit experiment for particles (4) 00:09:22
double slit experiment for particles (5) 00:09:38
interference pattern 00:10:40
So what's interfering? 00:11:12
Schrödinger's Equation 00:13:11
Particle interferometry 00:14:00
Cold - the quantum frontier! 00:15:18
How cold is cold? 00:16:59
Lasers zap, burn, cut 00:20:09
Pushing atoms with light 00:20:39
It's a bit harder than that... 00:22:53
how to stop fast atoms? 00:23:52
Laser Molasses 00:25:36
I. Laser cooling atoms 00:29:18
JILA Mark III (1) 00:29:23
JILA Mark III (2) 00:30:07
Atom Interferometry (AI) 00:32:29
Light interferometers (1) 00:33:15
Light interferometers (2) 00:33:19
A really BIG light interferometer! 00:34:02
de Broglie Wave Interference 00:34:31
Atom Interferometer Force Sensors 00:35:46
Gravimetry 00:36:43
Example 00:39:59
Laboratory validation 00:40:55
Applications 00:42:03
II. Quantum Tornadoes Near Absolute Zero 00:43:24
thermometer for cold atoms 00:45:36