Project Descriptions
Current projects are focusing on the generation of spin-dependent optical lattices, radiofrequency dressing, rf/microwave spectroscopy of BEC in and out of lattices, generation of nonstandard-geometry optical lattices, generation of bubble-geometry BECs through the NASA CAL program, control software development, and more...
Links
- Universe’s coolest lab set to open up quantum world: a nice summary in Nature of NASA'S Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL)
- Trapped in Orbit: a nice summary in Science of our upcoming experiments with CAL aboard the International Space Station
- Bates professor sending experiment to International Space Station: local publicity in the Portland Press Herald
- The Quest to Make Super-cold Quantum Blobs in Space: profile of MAIUS as well as our work in Wired magazine (also quoted at Geek.com)
- Papers
- Some undergraduate atomic-physics research laboratories
- Maren Mossman (U. San Diego)
- David Hall (Amherst)
- Duncan Tate (Colby)
- Charlie Conover (Colby)
- Michaela Kleinert (Willamette)
- Anne Goodsell (Middlebury)
- Tiku Majumder (Williams)
- Chad Orzel (Union)
- Will Williams (Smith)
- Andrew Dawes (Pacific)
- Jason Stalnaker (Oberlin)
- Derek Kimball (CSU East Bay)
- David Hanneke (Amherst)
- Steve Olmschenk (Denison)
- Charlie Doret (Williams)
- Courtney Lannert (Smith/UMass)
- Various university laboratories
- NIST Laser Cooling / Porto/Spielman / JQI
- JPL Quantum Sciences / JPL Frequency & Timing
- Kevin Wright (Dartmouth)
- Clayton Simien (Alabama)
- Ben Lev (Stanford)
- Yingmei Liu (Oklahoma State)
- Alberto Marino (Oklahoma)
- Wendell Hill (JQI)
- Jeff Kimble (Caltech)
- Lindsay Leblanc (Alberta)
- David Weiss (Penn State)
- Phil Gould (UConn)
- Poul Jessen (Arizona)
- Thad Walker (Wisconsin)
- Nick Bigelow (Rochester)
- Some places where ultracold atomic physics research (in general) is published
Funding
We are very generously funded by Bates College, the NASA Physical Science Research program, and formerly NSF and DEPSCoR/AFOSR.