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Welcome!
Welcome to website of the Cretan Matter-Waves / Bose-Einstein Condensation group of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers I.E.S.L. on Crete, Greece.
Mission Statement
- To explore the unprecedented potential of matter-wave interferometry
- To look at (de)coherence in increasingly complex quantum systems.
BEC 1: We are constructing a coherently guided matter-wave interferometer. Our matter-waves will be made from Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC). The interferometer will consist of a novel magnetic ring-shaped wavedguide based on time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAP). A little 'teaser' movie of our TAAP can be seen here.
BEC 2: We are now starting to set up a second experiment which will look at the kinetics of the condensation process itself. We also plan to study the rise of coherence in phase-fluctuating condensates. This project still has open PhD and post-doc positions.
News:
12/05/2011 We have a new PhD Scholarship available (link).
10/03/2011 BEC2 has a 3DMOT with decent atom numbers.
12/02/2011 Our novel dark-ground imaging system can detect down to 20 atoms. (picture)
06/12/2010 We have some very nice single atom statistics on the BEC1 machine (picture)
08/10/2010 The vacuum system of BEC2 is working (10^-11 Torr)
13/08/2010 We observed our first TAAP traps.
13/08/2010 19:02 we have the first BEC or South Eastern Europe on Firday the 13th!!! (picture)
20/07/2010 Our coils had been destroyed during FOMO2010 (picture)
14/04/2010 FOMO-2010 has started and ended -- with great success -- thanks to all who have helped organising it!
21/01/2010 We are organising FOMO-2010, a conference on matter-wave-optic. Please come and join!
