BEC 4/5: The Rubidium/Lithium Boson Lab
Welcome to the wiki of BEC 4/5. Our research focuses on exploring the world of ultracold atoms, where many new and interesting phenomena occur.
BEC 4/5 is part of the group of Professors Wolfgang Ketterle and Dave Pritchard. For an overview of the Ketterle-Pritchard group see here.
We are part of the Center for Ultracold Atoms , which is a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center.
This site is being continuously updated. Check back soon for more information!
BEC 4/5 team (10/22/2010) from left to right, top row: David Weld, Wolfgang Ketterle, Georgios Siviloglou, Niklas Jepsen, Graciana Puentes.
Left to right, bottom row: Junhyun Lee, Hiro Miyake, Ivana Dimitrova. Not in picture: Dave Pritchard.
Latest News
May 15, 2013: Congratulations to Hiro Miyake for successfully defending his thesis! Check back soon for "Probing and Preparing Novel States of Quantum Degenerate Rubidium Atoms in Optical Lattices" to appear in the thesis section here, it is a fantastic read!
March 30, 2013: We are looking for new graduate students to join our rubidium lab (BEC 4) and bosonic lithium lab (BEC 5). If you are interested and are visiting for the Open House, please feel free to contact any one of us by email (contact info in the People section), or stop by and talk to us and we can give you lab tours. Our office is in room 26-269.
Older News
October 21, 2011: Our paper on Bragg scattering from rubidium atoms in a 3D cubic optical lattice is published in Physical Review Letters. Take a look at it here.
January 6, 2011: Our paper on the theory of adiabatic demagnetization cooling gets published in Physical Review A. Take a look at it here.
Funding
We acknowledge funding from the DARPA OLE program, NSF, and the Department of Defense.
