http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1138 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/lukin-illuminates-quantum-science <!--paging_filter--><p>Mikhail Lukin thinks that devices based on quantum science are at the same stage as radios were about 100 years ago. To catch up, the recently tenured professor of physics is stopping and storing light, making artificial atoms behave in new ways, and doing engineering with superconductivity. When quantum does overtake kilowatts, you can expect novel products like quantum transmitters and quantum computers that will change the world the way that radios and electronic computers have.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/lukin-illuminates-quantum-science">read more</a></p> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:07:54 -0400 50443248 4522 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/ultracold-trap-unveils-secrets-matter-universe <!--paging_filter--><p>Physics Professor John Doyle traps the tiny particles that make up the universe and then studies them, looking for what they can tell him about the most basic rules of nature. Specifically, Doyle is looking for evidence of discrepancies in the theory known as the Standard Model, the major theory of how the basic particles of nature interact. The Model, Doyle said, was constructed using certain assumptions about how particles behave. As measurements of those particles become more and more precise, scientists like Doyle are better able to test those assumptions. From their work comes a better understanding of how the universe operates. Doyle is one of the world's foremost experts in trapping cold particles.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/ultracold-trap-unveils-secrets-matter-universe">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:10:29 -0400 70652986 2908 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu