Lundblad lab is an experimental atomic physics research facility at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, USA. We focus on the physics of matter cooled to just barely above absolute zero, specifically the phenomena associated with Bose-Einstein condensation in shell-like traps and in optical lattices.
OPEN: postdoc position, now hiring in ultracold atomic physics, working with NASA Cold Atom Laboratory experiment as well as with local BEC lab. Please contact Nathan Lundblad (nlundbla@bates.edu) to discuss. 2-year position, salary $70k+
If you are a Bates College student interested in summer research or senior thesis work, please contact Professor Lundblad to discuss possible projects.
Recent News
April 2024
Welcome to new postdoctoral research associate Dr. Jean-Baptiste Gérent, who joins us from Cold Atoms Bordeaux !
February 2024
Welcome to lab research students Eva Wu and Henry Yang who are working on a new python user interface for visualizing our BEC data!
January 2024
Welcome to lab research student Rahaa Jeagar Nikzat who is working on imaging fringe removal via principal component analysis!
September 2023
Welcome to senior thesis researchers Claudia Mabley, John Crossen, and Will Conway!
August 2023
Nathan traveling to Germany to speak at Bad Honnef "Cold Atoms and Molecules" summer school.
June 1, 2023
Welcome to summer research student Paloma Rodriguez '26!
March 2023
Nathan traveling to Brazil speak at workshop "Low Dimensional Quantum Gases" summer school.
June 6, 2022
Welcome to summer research students Adrian de Cola '23, Kira Yanagi '25, Alyson Reardon '24, and Hongke Lu '25!
May 18, 2022
New paper out with first data on ultracold bubbles made aboard the ISS: "Observation of ultracold atomic bubbles in orbital microgravity" (pdf). Thanks to all Bates students and postdocs, collaborators from other institutions, and JPL/NASA scientists who helped make this science happen!
May 12, 2022
Bon voyage to postdoc Joe Murphree, who is headed off to Madison to enter the neutral-atom quantum-computing industry at ColdQuanta.
April 26, 2022
Congratulations to senior Steve Shea, who has successfully defended his Honors thesis entitled "Magnetic Trapping of Rubidium en Route to Bose-Einstein Condensate Formation Using an Atom Chip Based Trap." Nice work!
June 6, 2021
Welcome to summer research students Elias Veilleux '23, Hamza Kalim '23, and Steve Shea '22!
August 7, 2020
Bon voyage to Michał Ćwik, who is leaving to a new job doing applied atomic physics in Massachusetts with Physical Sciences Inc.! And thanks to all our summer interns for jobs well done.
July 7, 2020
Welcome to our new Postdoctoral Research Associate, Joseph Murphree, joining us from Nick Bigelow's lab at Rochester. Also, welcome to our recently hired Research Assistant Michał Ćwik and our (remote) summer researchers, Yichun Liu, Gabe Salvi, and John Mieszczanski!
April 10, 2020
Congratulations to senior Michał Ćwik, who has successfully defended his Honors thesis entitled "2D and
3D Magneto-Optical Trapping of 87Rb in an Atom Chip
Bose-Einstein Condensation Apparatus" Nice work!
June 10, 2019
Welcome to summer research student Avi Brach-Neufeld '18!
April 10, 2019
Congratulations to senior Max Gold, who just presented his Honors thesis entitled "Characterization of Trap Frequencies for Cold Atom Laboratory Bose-Einstein Condensates." His work is the first student analysis at Bates of Cold Atom Laboratory data from the International Space Station!
September 1, 2018
Welcome to postdoctoral research associate Dr. Ryan Carollo! Dr. Carollo joins us from the lab of Prof. David Hanneke at Amherst College.
June 1, 2018
Welcome to summer research students Hannah Fitts '20, Xiaole (Alex) Jiang '21, Victor Fitzek '19, and Max Gold '19!
April 2, 2018
Congratulations to senior Nick Sergay, who just presented his senior thesis entitled "A Self-Stabilizing Optical System for Robust Bose-Einstein Condensate Experimentation." His work has significantly improved how we makes BECs at Bates!
October 1, 2017
Congratulations to student Nick Sergay, who presented our summer work (on Gross-Pitaevskii and Thomas-Fermi solutions for bubble-geometry BECs) at the FiO/DLS Undergraduate Symposium in Washington, DC!.
June 1, 2017
Welcome to summer research students Salim Ourari '18 and Nick Sergay '18!
April 10, 2017
Congratulations to Tiago Correia '17 on finishing his senior thesis on BEC trap dynamics!
August 1, 2016
Prof. Lundblad is leaving Maine (briefly) for a fall-semester sabbatical at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland.
June 5, 2016
Welcome to summer research students Tiago Correia '17 and Yara Abdelhady '18!
May 20, 2016
Nathan and Tom travel to DAMOP 2016 in Providence and present a poster on prospects for bubble-geometry BECs in space.
April 5, 2016
Congratulations to Dan Paseltiner '16, who has successfully defended his Honors thesis: "Progress towards Bose-Einstein condensation on an atom chip as a functional testbed for experiments aboard the orbital NASA Cold Atom Laboratory". After graduation, Dan will be SURFing at NIST Gaithersburg in the Physical Measurement Laboratory with Ian Spielman's ultracold atomic physics group.
June 29, 2015
Welcome to summer research students Milan Brankovic '17, Nick Sergay '18, and Salim Ourari '18!
April 15, 2015
Congratulations on various graduate school admissions to the current Lundblad Lab seniors, Ben Lovitz and Spencer Goossens, and congratulations to sophomore Tiago Correia on receiving a prestigious DAAD RISE fellowship to study ultracold atoms in Heidelberg in the group of Selim Jochim!
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