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Ian Spielman (Fed)
Spielman's current experiments lie at the intersection of condensed matter and atomic physics, realizing many-body systems with systems of ultra-cold atoms.
Current projects: (1) creating magnetic/optical configurations leading to synthetic gauge fields, for example, making the charge neutral bosons or fermions move like charged particles in a magnetic field, or act as if they experience the classic Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings; (2) using Feshbach resonances in 40K to control interactions Hamiltonians; (3) studying ultracold 87Rb in a optical lattices, thus realizing the 2D Bose-Hubbard model; and (4) realizing artificial gauge fields using the RF fields produced by an atom chip.
Awards
- 2015 APS Rabi Award
- 2014 Selected as a NIST Fellow
- 2014 NIST Stratton Award
- 2012 Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- 2012 Kavli Fellow.
- 2011 Junior BEC Award: For the first experimental realization of synthetic magnetic fields and spin-orbit couplings in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates.
- 2011 IUPAP prize: the IUPAP Prize rewards a young researcher who has a leading personal role in the achievement of original and outstanding contributions to the field of AMO physics.
- 2011 Arthur S. Flemming Award, recognizing distinguished service in the federal government. Citation: “For pioneering research in quantum physics, particularly the novel use of controlled quantum systems, specifically ultracold atomic gases, to model quantum phenomena that are difficult to observe in other settings.”
- 2010 PECASE Award: Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
- 2010 Maryland Academy of Sciences: Young scientist of the year award.
- 2010 Popular Science Brilliant 10. Citation: “his manipulation of atoms chilled to near-absolute zero could help create high-temperature superconductors.”
- 2009 NIST Bronze Metal. Citation: “For the development of methods to simulate condensed matter models by creating simple experimental realizations using ultra-cold atomic gases”
- 2009 NIST Sigma Xi Young Scientist Award. Citation: “In recognition for your highly innovative studies of Bose-Einstein condensates in two-dimensional lattices.”