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If you are currently finishing your undergraduate studies or have just started you master, we might have projects which might interest you! You would take on a small project of your own. The senior members of our group will be very happy to help you!
We are constructing the first Bose-Einstein Condensation machine in Greece. We will finish the construction until the end of your master! Therefore, your master would take you from the very construction of the machine to the first measurements. You will learn a lot about its technology and about the physics of Bose-Einstein Condensation. A perfect time to join the project!
The ultimateTOP trap:
Even our most trusted work-horse -- the TOP trap -- has fundamental limits in how well it can trap atoms. You would work use the BEC1 machine to explore how far one can push it. The work would involve some theoretical calculation, data taking on a real BEC machine, and finally paper writing.
An ultra-bright cold-atom source:
In order to make a BEC one needs to start with a cold beam of atoms. We make this beam by using a so-called 2D MOT, which cools a thermal gas of Rubidium atoms in two dimensions but lets them escape in the third dimension. We are now constructing a second BEC machine with the aim of studying very high atom numbers. Therefore we will need a very strong atom beam - which you might help to construct.
Novel magnetic traps:
In order to achieve the incredibly low temperatures at which BEC occurs, first of all one needs to have the perfect thermos flask. For us this flask is a magnetic trap. These traps are created from high current coils. One of the problems is its complexity and lack of optical access. We have some ideas to make a novel magnetic trap by combining modulated magnetic fields with a single sided quadrupole coil. You would calculate and implement some of its aspects.
If you would like to hear how it is to be part of the Cretan Matter-Waves team, feel free to contact anyone of our team, and - if you interested in joining for your master - Wolf von Klitzing.
