Bio: Prof. Cheng Chin earned his B.S. in Science from National Taiwan University and his PhD in Physics from Stanford University in 2001. He joined the University of Chicago in 2005 as a professor in the Physics Department. Prof. Cheng Chin's research interests include bosonic and fermionic quantum gases, few-body physics, quantum simulation, and quantum information control. He was recently elected as a 2024 Academician.
Abstract: Laser cooling and control of atoms embarks an exploration into novel quantum phenomena and information processing. New tools to precisely manipulate atoms have led to emulating complex systems in nature and revealing exotic quantum phenomena. I will outline in this talk the basics of quantum control, as well as quantum simulation relevant to cosmology and quantum chemistry. Finally, I will introduce our new experiments to gain full control of individual atoms toward a scalable quantum simulation platform.