OIST Mini Symposium "Spatial Adiabatic Passage"

Summary
The ability to coherently control the spatial degrees of freedom of matter waves is important for the emerging field of quantum engineering with applications in matter wave interferometry, quantum metrology, and quantum computation. For many purposes, quantum transport of trapped matter waves is performed via direct tunneling through the manipulation of the potential barriers that separate the different traps. This direct transport, however, is strongly dependent on the parameter values and gives rise to very sensitive Rabi-type oscillations of the populations of the localised states of the traps.

A solution to this problem, allowing efficient transfer of population between distant traps, can be achieved using spatial adiabatic passage (SAP) processes. It consist of the adiabatic following of an energy eigenstate of the system that is spatially modified either in time or space. For these, transfer occurs with high fidelity regardless of the selected specific parameter values used to drive the system and their fluctuations. 

This symposium brings together the currently leading contributors from the theoretical and experimental side in the area of SAP and it will stimulate fruitful discussions, not only across system boundaries (atoms, light and electrons), but also between different areas of application.

Speakers (in no particular order)
Veronica Ahufinger, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Nikolay Vitanov, Sofia University, Bulgaria 
Valentin Nesterenko, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Andrew Greentree, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Bing Chen, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Xi Chen, Shanghai University, China 
Adolfo del Campo, University of Massachusetts Boston, US
Gloria Platero, Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Yoshiro Takahashi, Kyoto University : Japan 
Germano Montemezzani, University of Metz, France
Thomas Busch, OIST
(Speaker list is subject to change. Thank you in advance for your understanding)

Thomas Busch (Quantum Systems Unit)

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