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First BEC!

July, 22 2011 By: chen276


Our first BEC was created on May 30, 2011. Our apparatus now regularly produces BEC of ~10,000 Rb-87 atoms at <100 nK.  We are looking forward to explore new physics in this coldest matter in the universe!   Purdue First BEC BEC in time-of-flight images   Figures: the first shows a single BEC absorption image, the second a BEC falling in time-of-flight expansion, with the inversion of the aspect ratio visible.

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