Book Review: Cents and sensibility: What economics can learn from the humanities, by Morson, G. S., & Morton, S.

Alkaline-Earth Atoms in Optical Tweezers

“…Here, combing single-atom control with such high spectral resolution could be employed to explore systematic shifts introduced by dipole-dipole interactions [62] or to implement single-experiment interleaved clock operation [63]. Further, the combination of long-range interactions mediated by Rydberg states [64,65] or cavity-modes [66] with OTs could be used to controllably introduce and detect entanglement in the clock transition -a possible pathway to quantumenhanced clock operation.…”

Healthcare Management and the Humanities: An Invitation to Dialogue

“…Empathy, for example, which lies at root of truly compassionate care, requires that one actually embody the feeling of another [ 48 ], a skill difficult to measure short of obfuscation through Likert-type assessments, yet something the complexity of characters portrayed in literature may help to foster. As Michaelson, notes, “only a novel, with its omniscient access to characters’ actions and inner states, could recondition our ethical encounters with fictional worlds to lead us empathetically to rethink those real-world phenomena that we encounter only from outside” [ 15 ] (p. 2).…”

“…However, in the midst of such approaches, healthcare managers must continue to channel their intuition and exercise judgment, demonstrate critical and creative thinking, and cultivate a tolerance for ambiguity [ 10 , 11 , 12 ]—all skills best honed, this paper argues, through a sustained engagement with the humanities. Building on efforts to incorporate the humanities into the fields of organization studies [ 13 , 14 , 15 ], medicine [ 16 , 17 ], and other allied health professions [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ], this paper seeks to demonstrate how the humanities might begin to play a role in healthcare management by focusing on three broad areas: (1) understanding the lived experiences of management, (2) offsetting the “tyranny of metrics” [ 22 ], and (3) confronting rather than avoiding anxiety. Hardly exhaustive, these areas are intended to foster recognition that both the humanities and healthcare management share a basic desire to understand a complex human world.…”

Dressed dense atomic gases

“…In this work we develop a theory for dressed dense atomic gases, a scenario in which excited atomic states are weakly coupled to the atomic ground state via an off-resonant laser. Laser-dressing has become popular in recent years, in particular in the context of Rydberg atoms [19,20], where it is used to tailor interaction potentials for the purpose of simulating exotic types of matter [21,22] or the generation of entangled many-body states [23][24][25] for quantum enhanced measurements. We show here that dressing of dense atomic gases may produce strong effective interactions already at the level of second order in the strength of the dressing laser (in contrast to (Rabi fre-quency Ω, detuning ∆) weakly drives the transition |1 → |2 that has a decay rate γ.…”