Manipulating Quantum Systems: An Assessment of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics in the United States
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States). Board on Physics and Astronomy
The AMO2020 decadal report took a forward-looking perspective on how the different elements that constitute AMO science provide a broad interdisciplinary driver for capitalizing on future opportunities in the scientific community. Goals for this project were to produce a report that (1) displays AMO science as a vital field that relates and unifies broad scientific endeavors; (2) discusses how AMO is supplying these and other fields with emerging technologies and fulfilling national needs; (3) identifies new opportunities, compelling scientific questions, and themes that have arisen from recent advances and accomplishments in the AMO field; (4) explains how AMO science meets workforce, educational, and other societal needs; and (5)makes recommendations for a strategy to fully realize the potential at the frontiers of AMO science. The study also compared the trajectory of AMO science in the US in the context of the international community of AMO science, in terms of cooperation, collaboration, and competition. The study resulted in a report composed in a style accessible to the non-scientist reader in order to understand how AMO science will lead the way in these fields and what AMO researchers want to learn in the coming decades and why.
- Research Organization:
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0018414
- OSTI ID:
- 1838681
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-0018414; TRN: US2302665
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Reuse permission granted by the National Academies
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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