June 21-25, 2010

La Fonda Hotel
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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Speakers

Cristian Batista
Los Alamos National Lab

Jim Babb
ITAMP-Harvard

Carl Caves
University of New Mexico

John Chiaverini
Lincoln Labs

Cheng Chin
University of Chicago

Bogdan Damski
Los Alamos National Lab

Ivan Deutsch
University of New Mexico

Jose D'Incao
University of Colorado, Boulder - JILA

Randy Hulet
Rice University

Robin Kaiser
Institut Nonlinear de Nice

Eugene Kolomeisky
University of Virginia

Roman Krems
University of British Columbia

Heather Lewandowski
University of Colorado

Nicholas Bigelow
Rochester University

Peter Milonni
Los Alamos National Lab

Dima Mozyrsky
Los Alamos National Lab

Mark Saffman
University of Wisconsin

Jörg Schmiedmayer
Vienna University of Technology

Jonathan Simon
Harvard University

Jake Taylor
University of Maryland

Shan-Wen Tsai
University of California, Riverside

Dajun Wang
Jun Ye's Group
JILA, U. Colorado

Wojiech Zurek
Los Alamos National Lab

Bernard Zygelman
University of Nevada

Controls in ion-trap, cold-atom, cold-molecule and nano-technologies manipulate many-body quantum and quantum-field physics to the extent of designing disorder, steering non-linear dynamics and exploiting the quantum nature of matter.

New tools promise sensors of unparalleled accuracy, novel mesoscopic quantum control and unprecedented emulation of many-body quantum physics of fundamental interest.  Access to novel regimes (quantum degenerate molecule gas, Terra-Hertz frequencies, nano-Kelvin temperatures, nano-scale devices and micron scale quantum mechanics), to the exquisite sensitivity of ultra-cold atom, molecule and ion matter and to the microscopic system parameters promise to harvest the inherent power of quantum mechanics, control chemistry, realize scalable entanglement or yield Heisenberg limited measurement.  New control knobs suggest efficient implementation of quantum entanglement and single qu-bit transport, near-surface atom wave optics, and control of vacuum fluctuations. The emulation of quantum phase transitions, superfluids in disordered potentials, macroscopic quantum tunneling and Schrodinger cats can address questions that remain unanswered in traditional low temperature physics.

This conference targets the prospects, context and implementation of the new tools.  The simultaneous opening up of diverse avenues and the simulation of systems from different fields of physics create an ideal environment for cross-pollination.  Questions such as "what are the central issues, what is the scientific backdrop and what are the techniques that have been developed?" need to be addressed on time scales that are shorter than ever.  This conference mixes a core of the cold atom, ion trapping and Casimir-related nano-technology communities with representatives from optical, condensed matter, nuclear and field theory.  The meeting will promote cross-disciplinary interactions with condensed matter and strongly correlated electron studies, with optics and laser-theory, random matrix theory, chaos, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and non-linear physics.