Erich J. Mueller

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Erich Mueller is an associate professor in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~emueller/. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ohio State University. He conducts theoretical research on ultracold gases. In 2009 he was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.


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Strong Staggered Flux Lattices for Cold Atoms

Extremely high magnetic fields have been simulated by laser manipulation of atoms trapped in an optical lattice. Read More »

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Spin-Orbit Coupling Comes in From the Cold

Experimentalists simulate the effects of spin-orbit coupling in ultracold Fermi gases, paving the way for the creation of new exotic phases of matter. Read More »

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Looking for Hofstadter’s Butterfly in Cold Atoms

Two research groups have engineered an optical lattice of atoms that mimic the behavior of electrons moving in a crystal and a strong magnetic field. Read More »