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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Quantum Optics |
| Keywords | Bose-Einstein condensation, ultracold quantum gases, condensed matter physics, quantum simulation |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Cambridge |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Theodor W. Hänsch | Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2010 |
Programme(s)
| 2008 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Wolfgang Ketterle has shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates". As John D. MacArthur Professor of physics at MIT and Director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, he is a world leader in the exploration of the many-body quantum physics of ultracold atoms. His research in Germany will explore quantum simulators for condensed matter phenomena with ultracold atomic fermions and bosons in optical or magnetic lattice potentials. |