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Inside the 20-year quest to unravel the bizarre realm of 'quantum superchemistry'

April 2024 - LiveScience

 
La chimie devient quantique

October 2023 - Epsiloon

 
‘Quantum Superchemistry’ Observed for the First Time Ever

August 2023 - Scientific American

 
Study demonstrates many-body chemical reactions in a quantum degenerate gas

August 2023 - physics.org

 
Chicago scientists observe first evidence of ‘quantum superchemistry’ in the laboratory

August 2023 - UChicago News

 
Scientists use lasers to recreate 'twisted' superconducting material

March 2023 - UChicago News

 

The future remembers its past: Largest gift of art to PSD features career retrospective of Hyde Park painter (Former student Francisco Fonta's grand mother)

August 2022 - UChicago Physical Sciences Division

 

UChicago scientists create strange quantum ‘domain walls’ in laboratory

February 2022 - UChicago News

 

Cheng Chin receives ’21–’22 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award

 

January 2022 - UChicago Physical Sciences Division

 

Bose fireworks and Shooting quantum particles resembles pattern like a turtle

 

September 2021 - National Science Foundation

 

Frozen cloud of molecules acts as a single quantum object

 

April 2021 - New Scientist

 

In long-awaited breakthrough, UChicago scientists harness molecules into single quantum state

 

April 2021 - UChicago News

 

Scientists use atoms to simulate quantum physics in curved spacetimes

 

June 2019 - UChicago News

 

Viewpoint: A quantum simulation of Unruh radiation

 

June 2019 - Phys.org

 

Viewpoint: Zooming in on ultracold atoms

 

April 2019 - American Physical Society Physics

 

Cold atoms act as messengers at a distance

 

April 2019 - UChicago PSD News

 

New interactions seen in an ultracold gas

 

April 2019 - Nature News and Views

 

Machine learning reveals hidden turtle pattern in quantum fireworks

 

February 2019 - UChicago News

 

$22 million for quantum research at UChicago and national labs

 

September 2018 - UChicago News

 

Quantum systems work together for change, UChicago scientists find

 

January 2018 - UChicago News

 

Bosonenfalle für Fermionen

 

December 2017 - Pro-physik.de

 

Fermions trapped in Bose gas

 

December 2017 - Physics Synopsis, American Physical Society

 

UChicago scientists see fireworks from atoms at ultra-low temperatures

 

November 2017 - UChicago News

 

UChicago physicists settle debate over how exotic quantum particles form

 

June 2017 - UChicago News

 

Undergrads achieve levitation breakthrough

 

Apr 2017 - UChicago News

 

Physics Undergraduates Help Discover New Levitation Method

 

Mar 2017 - The Chicago Maroon

 

New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects

 

Feb 2017 - UChicago News

 

Researchers confirm decades-old theory decribing principle of phase transitions

 

Nov 2016 - UChicago News

 

Laser-wielding physicists seize control of atoms’ behavior

 

Oct 2015 - UChicago News

 

Making And Shaking New Materials With Ultracold Atoms

 

Jun 2015 - Forbes Magazine

 

Cesium atoms shaken, not stirred, to create elusive excitation in superfluid

 

Feb 2015 - UChicago News

 

Exotic, gigantic molecules fit inside each other like Russian nesting dolls

 

Jan 2015 - UChicago News

 

Physicists Find a Surprising Rule of Threes

 

May 2014 - Quanta Magazine

 

Cold Atom Cosmology

 

Sep 2013 - Science Magazine

 

Ultracold Big Bang experiment successfully simulates evolution of early universe

 

Aug 2013 - UChicago News

 

Ultracold experiments heat up quantum research

 

Mar 2012 - UChicago News

 

Physicist Cheng Chin receives 2011 I.I. Rabi Prize

 

Feb 2011 - UChicago News

 

Same rules apply to some experimental systems regardless of scale

 

Feb 2011 - UChicago News

 

"Wedding Cake" Images Display Transitions between Exotic Quantum States

 

August 2009 - NSF news

 

Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

 

June 2009 - physorg.com

 

Physicists warm up to ultracold experiments

 

June 2009 - UC research

 

Chicago’s Odyssey initiative is designed to ease the burden of undergraduate debt—and let students pursue their dreams.

 

September/October 2007 - The University of Chicago Magazine

 

Atoms rely on teamwork to achieve what theory predicted decades ago

 

March 2006 - UC Chronicle

 

Feat of experimental acrobatics leads to first synthesis of ultracold molecules

 

April 2005 - UC press on ultracold complex molecules