The Alice team challenge is on! We opened up for remote access to the experiment through gameplay on the 19th of September. Follow on alice.scienceathome.org.
(19/6 2016)
We observed this beautiful BEC transition in the lab on the 16th of September. The BEC is created with the help of a so-called dimple, a very tightly focused laserbeam.
(16/9 2016)
One of the main research interests of the experimental team is to utilize the atomic Faraday effect to measure properties of our atomic clouds. In recent work we have built a magnetometer capable of measuring magnetic fields to the precision of 2 nT. Taking into the cycle time of the experiment of about 30 s, the sensitivity of our magnetometer amounts to 12 nT/sqrt(Hz).
(August 2016)
Jacob Sherson and Aske Thorsen flew all the way to Austin, Texas to participate in the National Instruments Week at beginning of August 2016, and display the capabilities of our remote experiment interface. See here: youtu.be/tQpSOZvrBAc.
(2/8 2016)
Jens Schultz Laustsen joins the group as a PhD on the 1st of August 2016. Jens is familiar to us, as he did his Bachelors project with us last summer. Big welcome to Jens.
(1/8 2016)
We said farewell to our postdoc Mario Napolitano who left on the 31st of July 2016. Thanks for fantastic 2 years, and good luck in future work!
(31/7 2016)
On the 11th of July we just submitted a preprint on the ArXiv of our new paper Measurement-enhanced determination of BEC phase diagrams. Find out how to utilize Faraday imaging, to enhance the performance of your ultracold atoms experiment, here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02934.
(11/7 2016)
Over the summer, optimal control experts; an experimentalist, and a young student have had remote access to our experiment in order to create as large BECs as possible. Stay tuned for the exciting results.
(Summer 2016)
We observed Larmor precession of atoms in the lab on the 23rd of June. Our atoms are magnetized, and when they are abruptly exposed to a magnetic field, pointing in a different direction than their magnetization, the start rotating around this external field. This effect can be used to measure magnetic fields very precisely.
(23/6 2016)
We congratulate our masters student Søren Christensen on fulfillment of his masters degree, with a project entitled Step-by-step Optimization of the Production of Ultra Cold Atoms, defended on the 6th of May 2016. Thank you for your contribution to the understanding of the fundamentals of our experiment, the MOT and the evaporation process.
(6/5 2016)
The groups' first PhD student Romain Müller successfully defended his thesis on the 14th of January 2016. Romain has been with us since the dawn of man, and we are happy to announce that he will be staying with us for longer as a postdoc! Congratulations once again.
(14/1 2016)
Jakob Flyger Jørgensen, our Master’s student defended his thesis Generation of arbitrary Potential Landscapes for Ultra Cold Atoms with success on the 8th of January 2016. Thank you for your valuable input to the experiment.
(8/1 2016)
