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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:
02/04/2012 Ben Sherlock has arrived
02/02/2012 Gravitational output coupling of an atom laser.
25/01/2012 Congradulations Grigory Konstantinidis (he just defended his PhD thesis).
12/12/2011 We have a new PhD Scholarship available (link)
30/06/2011 Melina Pappa defended her PhD thesis. Congradulations!
19/10/2011 BEC2 has condensed with 100k atoms in BEC
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)
