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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:

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!
12/08/2009 Opening party for the BEC 2 lab - "funkiest periptero of the lab"
15/07/2009 Jules Grucker has been appointed as a Maître de Conférences at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and will do research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Well done Jules!
19/06/2009 Olivier Morizot has been appointed as a Maître de Conférences at the Université de Provence in Marseille, France.
01/06/2009 Hektor Sosa joins us for two months to work on the single atom experiment.
30/03/2009 Gustav Wikström is going to do his Master Thesis with us in the One Atom Experiment. He wil start 1.May.
23/03/2009 Waldemar Deibel is going to do his Diploma Thesis with us in the BEC2 team. He wil start 1.May.
20/12/2008 Jan von Klitzing is born!!
06/11/2008 Welcome Jules!