Welcome to the website for BEC 2. In this space you will find up to date news, descriptions of our current research topics, highlights of the lab history, and more. For an overview of the work of all the Ketterle labs, the thesis archive, etc., please go here. Optical lattice emulatorWe are currently part of the DARPA Optical Lattice Emulator program, which seeks to use fermionic atoms in optical lattices to model crystalline solids. We have chosen the 3-D Fermi-Hubbard model as our model Hamiltonian, and are working towards creating an anti-ferromagnetically ordered state of atoms in the optical lattice. |