Whoo-hoo! Dr. Mingshu Zhao defended his thesis!
Way to go Mingshu! March 1, 2024 will live on in history.
Author: Ian Spielman
Adam Savage visits RbK!
Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, gave the NIST colloquium today and visited the RbK lab! Pictured …
Observation of Anisotropic Superfluid Density in an Artificial Crystal
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the anisotropic speed of sound of an atomic superfluid (SF) Bose-Einstein …
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Weak-measurement-induced heating in Bose-Einstein condensates
Ultracold atoms are an ideal platform for understanding system-reservoir dynamics of many-body systems. Here, we study …
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Feedback-cooled Bose-Einstein condensation: Near and far from equilibrium
Continuously measured interacting quantum systems almost invariably heat, causing loss of quantum coherence. Here, we study …
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A 20 A bipolar current source with 140 μA noise over 100 kHz bandwidth
The precise control of direct current (dc) magnetic fields is crucial in a wide range of …
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Direct calibration of laser intensity via Ramsey interferometry for cold atom imaging
A majority of ultracold atom experiments utilize resonant absorption imaging techniques to obtain the atomic density. …
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Quantum back-action limits in dispersively measured Bose-Einstein condensates
A fundamental tenet of quantum mechanics is that measurements change a system’s wavefunction to that most …
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Interference induced anisotropy in a two-dimensional dark state optical lattice
We describe a two-dimensional optical lattice for ultracold atoms with spatial features below the diffraction limit …
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Topological charge pumping with subwavelength Raman lattices
Recent experiments demonstrated deeply subwavelength lattices using atoms with N internal states Raman coupled with lasers of wavelength λ. …
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