Researchers in AMO physics at Yale are studying the fundamental interactions of light and matter from the scale of single atoms and molecules to massive (nano-gram to milli-gram scale) optomechanical systems. These experiments are pushing new frontiers in controlling and characterizing the properties of these systems, with applications to studying quantum many-body systems, manipulating and cooling single molecules, studying the mechanical properties of massive objects in the quantum regime, and precision sensing for tests of fundamental physics.
For further information, see Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics @ Yale web site
