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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Northwestern’s physics programs are integrated across departments for an interdisciplinary approach to exploiting technologies, including atomic interferometry for ultra-sensitive force detection (gravitational sensing and quantum optomechanics), entanglement-enhanced interferometry for quantum sensing, quantum memory applications, and dipolar coupling with solid-state qubits.

The Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP) is a first-of-its-kind research institute dedicated to small-scale particle physics. One example of their work is the ability to suspend a single electron for months at a time while measuring its magnetic moment to a precision of three parts in 10 trillion.

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