First BEC!
07-21-2011
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! Â
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.