Update

- 4/2013: Chung-Yu paper submitted on arXiv "Characterizing single atom optical dipole traps"

- 3/2013: Congratulations to Benjamin Land for an award H. Fukuyo Outstanding Physics Undergraduate Awards.

- 3/2013: Congratulations to Dr. Corey S. Gerving for successfully defending his thesis.

- 2/2013: Congratulations to Dr. Chung-Yu Shih for successfully defending his thesis.

- 1/2012: Congratulations to Dr. Chris Hamley 2012 an Amelio Award for Excellence in Research in the School of Physics.

- 10/2011: Congratulations to Dr. Chris Hamley for successfully defending his thesis.

- 12/2010: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Gibbons for successfully defending his thesis.

- 11/2010: Congratulations to Dr. Eva M. Bookjans for successfully defending his thesis.

- 07/2010: Congratulations to Dr. Layne Churchill for successfully defending his thesis.

Greetings, welcome to the lab!

Welcome to the webpage of Prof. Michael Chapman's research group at the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia. Our research is focused on investigating the quantum behavior of atoms and photons, often at the single particle level. We employ lasers to confine and cool atoms to nano-Kelvin temperatures, which are used for studies including fundamental atom-photon interactions, atom optics and interferometry, and quantum computing and communication. Recent achievements include the first all-optical Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), the first storage ring for neutral atoms, and cavity QED with optically transported ultracold atoms.

Many-body physics

We have created and studied a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of 87Rb atoms directly in an optical trap.
Single Atom Experiment

Neutral atoms are one of the most promising systems for quantum information.
Ion Trapping

We propose to apply AMO technologies of ion trapping and cooling and high resolution spectroscopy to the manipulation of a nuclear excited state.