Graduate student Brian Murphy and Professor Lene Vestergaard Hau published the January 20, 2009 cover story of Physical Review Letters. The article, "Electro-optical nanotraps for neutral atoms," is also featured in the APS publication Physics - spotlighting exceptional research. The work represents the first merging of cold atom and nanoscale technologies, and shows that atoms can be trapped and cooled to extremely low temperatures with chip integrated nanostructures at room temperature. This has major importance for the field of quantum physics and technology, allowing for the creation of novel nano-optic devices and for fundamental investigations of quantum physics at the nanoscale. Please click here for full article.

Professor Lene Vestergaard Hau has published a Commentary in Nature Photonics' Focus Issue on slow light (August, 2008). Read Professor Lene Vestergaard Hau's article in Nature Photonics.





Our work from 2007 was picked as the Nature Editors'
Favourite of 2007 in Quantum Physics
and
was selected for the American Institute of Physics'
Top Ten Physics News Stories of 2007

Click on the cover image at right to learn more about the paper,
featured on the cover of Nature, Feb. 8, 2007.