Randall G. Hulet

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Randall Gardner Hulet (born April 27, 1956 in Walnut Creek , California ) is an American physicist .

Hulet graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and received his PhD in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Daniel Kleppner . He then worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder with David Wineland . In 1987 he became Assistant Professor, 1992 Associate Professor and 1996 Professor of Physics at Rice University , where he was appointed Fayez Sarofim Professor in 2000.

He is a pioneer of experiments with ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). He is known for the first realization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an atomic gas with an attractive interaction (gas from lithium atoms), whereby the formation of the BEC competes with the usual condensation due to the attractive interaction. If there are enough gas atoms, the gas collapses (condenses) and Hulet also succeeded in making the first observation of the formation and collapse of a BEC. He also succeeded in the first observation of polarized degenerate Fermigas (and mixtures of Bose and Fermigases, corresponding to bosonic and fermionic isotopes of lithium) and matter wave solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates. He and his group are investigating optical lattices of ultra-cold atoms as a model of systems in solid-state physics, including high-temperature superconductors (HTS) using a Hubbard model of ultra-cold atoms with two spin components (where they were able to demonstrate antiferromagnetic properties as in HTS) and p-wave superfluids as possible topological superfluids (with Vincent Liu). In addition, his group investigates the few-particle systems of bosons with resonant interactions with ultra-cold atoms.

For 2017 he received the Herbert Walther Prize . He received the American Physical Society's II Rabi Prize in 1995 and the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989. In 1988 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society . Hulet is an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht.

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  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Russell A. Hart, Hulet et al. a., Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms, Nature, Volume 519, 2015, pp. 211-214, abstract
  3. ↑ Bo Liu, Xiapeng Li, RG Hulet, Vincent Liu, Detecting -phase superfluids with p-wave symmetry in a quasi-one-dimensional optical lattice, Physical Review A, Volume 94, 2016, p. 031602
  4. ↑ DPG prices 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hulet, Randall G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hulet, Randall Gardner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Walnut Creek (Location, California)