Intense Laser Matter Interactions
The interaction of extremely intense laser pulses with solids, liquids and gases has many technological applications and is rich in physics. Our experiments involve elements of atomic physics, nonlinear optics, plasma physics, condensed matter physics and quantum electronics.
Schine Lab
Cavity-enhanced coupling between light and individually controlled atoms for quantum information processing.
Losert Lab - Understanding and Quantifying Biophysical Dynamics in Cellular Systems
The Losert lab focuses on quantifying in vitro intracellular and population scale dynamics from image sequences captured on various microscopes to understand cellular biophysical properties.
Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms
In recent years ultracold atomic gases have proven to be a powerful and versatile tool for studying a wide variety of physics.
Our group currently has two experiments, the Sodium atom circuits experiment and the ultracold Strontium experiment. Both experiments are located at the Joint Quantum Institute located on the UMD campus and use ultracold atomic gases to study many-body physics. The atom circuits experiment is currently focused on studying superfluidity and analogs of both superconducting electronics and cosmological physics, whereas the strontium experiment is focused on engineering and studying novel condensed matter systems.