Entitled “Dipolar Shielding and Sub-wavelength Bilayers in a Quantum Gas of Dysprosium”, Michael Cantara‘s thesis details the building of a new atomic physics laboratory in the group of Professor Wolfgang Ketterle. Dr. Cantara’s research included confining dipolar atoms in ultra-tight optical lattices to suppress spin-relaxation, as well as the creation of a novel confinement scheme to achieve 60 nm separations of dipolar-coupled atomic layers. With applications to quantum computing and sensing, future results from the group will expand upon his work to study novel dipolar quantum gates.
Michael Cantara defends his PhD in physics at MIT
