Ultra-Cold Atoms, Ions, Molecules and Quantum Technologies.

Intro -- Ultra-Cold Atoms, Ions, Molecules and QuantumTe chnologies -- Preamble -- Coordinators, Contributors, Sponsors and Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Cooling and Trapping Atoms -- When an Atom Meets a Photon -- The Atom Slows Down... -- ... The Gas Temperature Drops -- Atomic Traps of All Kinds -- With Lasers and a Magnetic Field: The All-Purpose Trap -- Optical Tweezers to Catch and Immobilize Atoms -- With Magnetic Fields: From Large Volume Traps to Atomic Chips -- Even Colder: The Gas Changes State -- Last Step Towards the Absolute Zero: We Evaporate -- Finally, the Grail, the Bose-Einstein Condensation: The Atoms All as One! -- Atom Boxes Made of Light -- Atoms can Attract or Repel -- And the Whole Jungle of Particles on a Microscopic Scale -- What is Matter Made of? Bosons and Fermions -- Fermions can also Get Ultra-Cold -- Conclusion -- Cold Atom Instruments and Metrology -- What is Metrology? -- Concepts of Statistical and Systematic Uncertainty -- Atoms as References -- Metrology with Quantum Systems -- Atomic Clocks -- Principle of an Atomic Clock -- Why Use Cold Atoms? -- Cold Cesium Atom Clocks -- Trapping Atoms to Improve Accuracy -- Optical Clocks and the Future Definition of the Second -- Links between Clocks and Time Scales -- Atom Interferometers -- Principle of an Atom Interferometer, Similarities and Differences with a Cesium Atomic Clock -- Inertial Sensors Based on Atom Interferometry -- Maturity of the Sensors and Industrial Transfer -- Novel Architectures -- Probing the Fundamental Laws of Physics with Cold Atom Sensors -- Gravimetry and Chrono-Geodesy -- General Relativity and Gravitational Waves -- Standard Model and Dark Matter -- Single Atoms and Single Photons: Quantum Information Exchange -- How to See a Single Atom -- The Benefit of Cavities.

Strong Coupling Between a Photon and an Atom: The Rabi Doublet -- The Atom Becomes a Qubit -- Microcavities -- Detecting the State of a Qubit -- Storing Quantum Information in Cold Atoms: Quantum Memories -- Improving Clocks with Entanglement: Spin-Squeezed States -- Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms -- What is Quantum Simulation? -- From Classical Matter to Quantum Particles -- Challenges in Understanding Complex Quantum Systems -- Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Simulation -- Ultracold Gases: Dilute Systems with Complex Collective Behavior -- Why are Cold Atoms Good Quantum Simulators? -- Observing a Quantum System Atom by Atom -- Visualizing Atoms in an Optical Lattice -- Assembling Artificial Crystals Atom by Atom -- What can We Simulate with Cold Atoms? -- Quantum Magnetism -- Origin of Superconductivity -- Improving our Understanding of Strongly Correlated Materials -- Other Prospects -- Waves and Disorder -- Waves and Disorder, very Rich Physical Systems! -- Diffusion in Disorder: an Intuitive Approach... -- ... Which Hides a Much More Complex Physics! -- A Physics also Source of Innovation -- Cold Atoms: Disorder Under Control! -- How to Immerse Atoms in Disorder? -- Random Walk of Cold Atoms in Disorder: Observation of Diffusion -- Anderson Localization: Halted by Disorder -- 60 Years of Investigations and Still Open Questions -- An Intuitive Understanding of Anderson Localization -- Anderson Localization of Cold Atoms: First Observations -- Towards the Study of the Anderson Transition in 3D -- Coherent Backscattering: Visualizing Interferences -- Localization in the Space of Velocities -- Coherent Backscattering of Cold Atoms -- Anderson Localization in the Space of Velocities -- Cold Atoms and Disorder: Other Configurations -- Universality of Localization Phenomena -- Light Scattering by Cold Atoms -- ``Kicking'' Atoms to Localize Them.

Interactions and Disorder: When Atoms Talk to Each Other -- Quantum Phases of Disordered Gases at Low Temperatures -- Many-Body Localization: When Disorder Makes Thermal Equilibrium Impossible -- Conclusion -- Trapping and Cooling Ions -- How to Confine a Charged Particle? -- Penning Trap -- Paul Trap or Radiofrequency Trap -- Trap Zoology -- How to Cool Trapped Ions? -- Let Us Put Several Ions in the Trap! -- What can We do with Trapped Ions? -- Precision Measurements: Masses, Atomic Properties, ... -- Strong Confinement Regime and Ion Clocks -- Quantum Information and Quantum Simulations -- Cold Collisions and Cold Chemical Reactions -- Antimatter Confinement -- Conclusion -- Cold and Ultracold Molecules -- How to Characterize a Molecule? -- The Electronic, Vibrational, Rotational Energy Levels -- Can We Laser Cool Molecules? -- Associating Cold Atoms -- With a Photon: Photoassociation -- With a Magnetic Field: Magnetoassociation -- How to Control Association? -- Direct Cooling of Molecules -- Formation and Preliminary Cooling -- Deceleration of Molecular Beams -- Sub-Kelvin Cooling -- Cold Molecules: For Which Applications? -- Quantum Simulation -- Quantum Information -- Ultracold and Controlled Molecular Chemistry -- Precision Measurements -- Conclusion -- Conclusion and Everything Else This Book Could also Have Been About... -- Index.

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