Positions are available for Postdocs, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Students interested in working in an upstart AMO research lab. Please contact Prof. Leanhardt for more information.
Dr. Aaron Leanhardt joined Michigan's experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics effort in the Fall of 2007 as an Assistant Professor. Professor Leanhardt's research focuses on tabletop experiments with quantum gases at the lowest achievable temperatures in the universe, where particles lose their individuality and acquire wave-like properties.
Ultracold gases have a broad range of applications, including atom interferometry, metrology, and quantum information science. Moreover, these gases form a quantum many-body system with tunable interactions that can emulate various condensed matter phenomena. In addition to exploring these topics, Professor Leanhardt plans to use ultracold gases to probe fundamental questions of nature, such as the strength of gravity at short length scales and the possibility of symmetry violation in the form of permanent electric dipole moments. These low energy, laboratory-based experiments test elementary particle theories (such as Supersymmetry) at the TeV energy scale and provide complementary data to high energy, collider-based experiments at the LHC.
Nov. 20, 2007: Professor Leanhardt doing his best bowling ball impersonation, right down to the length of his hair.
November 2007: Lab renovations are now complete (see photos below). Many thanks to the Physics Department and LS&A facilities crew that made it happen! Please stop by SB233 & SB237 in the basement of the new Randall Laboratory to see how everything looks.
