Entries by mmartin
Nanotrappy: An open-source versatile package for cold-atom trapping
The LKB Quantum Network team, DAALI researchers at Sorbonne University, have developed Nanotrappy, a python package made for calculating optical trapping potentials for alkali atoms around nanostructures. Trapping cold neutral atoms in close proximity to nanostructures has raised a large interest in recent years, pushing the frontiers of cavity-QED and boosting the emergence of the […]
Why are optical refractive indices so small?
An international team of scientists reports in Physical Review X on a new theory that can explain why the refractive index of a disordered atomic medium only reaches a maximum value of 1.7.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 899275 under the funding call FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020 – FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking.