Regal Group News
Cindy Regal was elected a 2016 APS Fellow "For observation of quantum radiation pressure noise on a macroscopic object, and establishing quantum control over individual neutral atoms."
Adam Kaufman has been awarded the 2016 DAMOP Thesis Prize for his outstanding thesis research on assembling neutral atoms in optical tweezers, work conducted in the Regal group at JILA. As part of this work, Kaufman and his coworkers developed an experiment that allowed the team to use laser cooling to assemble arrays of ground-state neutral atoms in optical tweezers.
Graduate student Adam Kaufman received one of the poster prizes awarded at this year's International Conference on Atomic Physics in Washington DC. His poster was entitled: "Atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel effect in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers".
Our work in collaboration with the Garrett Cole and the Aspelmeyer group in Vienna has been published in APL. We have demonstrated single-crystal high-stress membranes with a mechanical Q similar to SiN membranes.