{"id":3832,"date":"2013-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2013\/10\/08\/one-year-ago-tomorrow-and-what-physics-students-should-know-about-it\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:00:00","slug":"one-year-ago-tomorrow-and-what-physics-students-should-know-about-it","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/one-year-ago-tomorrow-and-what-physics-students-should-know-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Ago Tomorrow (and What Physics Students Should Know About It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-545.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-545.png\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-545.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Wes Campbell<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics is announced today, but for a series of practical reasons, today\u2019s discussion will focus on the work that led to the prize that was awarded to David Wineland and Serge Haroche one year ago\u00a0tomorrow. \u00a0That story begins with the demonstration of laser cooling in 1978, which ushered in a new era for atomic physics where the full quantum states (internal and external) of atoms would be precisely controlled in the following decades.\u00a0 This control has essentially given today\u2019s atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physicist the power to realize experiments in the laboratory that were always considered \u201cgedanken-\u201d or thought- experiments. \u00a0The simplistic nature of these experiments means they can be understood with undergraduate-level concepts, and the field of AMO physics will be introduced through a case study of work by Wineland and Haroche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3832","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}