La lettre du Collège de France
“Ultracold Quantum Matter” Project (UQUAM)
Jean Dalibard
Abstract
In 2012, the European Research Council (ERC) launched a call for proposals, named Synergy, with the aim of promoting collaborative research between European research groups. Our team, which is currently working on Bose-Einstein condensates at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory, is part of the fortunate eleven winning consortiums, with a theme that may seem a little mysterious: ultra-cold quantum matter.The starting point of this project is the interaction between light and matter. This interacti...