October 2-5 In Vilnius, Nobel laureate in public physics, distinguished researcher of the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States of America, Professor William Daniel Phillips. The world-renowned physicist is coming to Vilnius University, where he will meet with the rector, Prof. Rimvydus Petrauskas, students and scientists of the Faculty of Physics, and on October 4. 18.00:XNUMX p.m. will give a public lecture open to all "Time, Einstein and the Coldest Things in the Universe" ("Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe").
WD Phillips studies the phenomena caused by the interaction of atoms with light and the control of quantum information by single atomic qubits. The professor developed methods of freezing and storing atoms with laser beams, created a method of capturing atoms at low temperatures. in 1988 it cooled atoms to a temperature that was six times lower than the previously predicted theoretical limit. in 1997 W. Phillips, together with colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Steven Chu, received the Nobel Prize for the development of methods for freezing and storing atoms using laser light.
The aforementioned achievements of the physicists later led to the creation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate, a new exotic state of matter whose existence was predicted by Albert Einstein and the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose 70 years ago. At very low temperatures, a giant (collective) wave of atoms is formed - the Bose-Einstein condensate, in which all atoms are in the same quantum state. Atoms in this state are so cooled and so slow that they actually coalesce and behave as a single quantum object that is much larger than any individual atom.
William Daniel Phillips - American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. W. Phillips completed his doctoral and postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. in 1978 he joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he conducted award-winning research. W. Phillips is a NIST Distinguished Investigator. NIST Fellow) and Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland.
