"Here..we report, to our knowledge, the first simultaneous production of a dual-species BEC in space (formed from 87Rb & 41K), observation of interspecies interactions, as well as the production of 39K #ultracold gases. Operating a single #laser at a ‘magic wavelength’ at which Rabi rates of simultaneously applied Bragg pulses are equal, we have further achieved the first spaceborne demonstration of simultaneous atom #interferometry with 2 atomic species (87_Rb & 41_K)"
Using upgraded hardware of the multiuser Cold Atom Lab (CAL) aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) of two atomic isotopes are simultaneously created and used to demonstrate interspecies interactions and dual species atom interferometry in space.
Recordings of my lecture course on #dipolar physics from the #LesHouches Cold Atoms School 2023 on #Ultracold #Molecules are now available online:
https://videos.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/video/28021-tim-langen-1/
https://videos.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/video/28043-tim-langen-2/
https://videos.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/video/28059-tim-langen-3/
See here for the full program of the school: https://coldatoms2023.sciencesconf.org/
Ajouté par : Ubi Houches
New review paper on the recent striking advances in the manipulation and #quantum science of #ultracold #molecules. Great collaboration with Giacomo Valtolina (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin), Dajun Wang (CUHK, Hong Kong) and Jun Ye (JILA, Boulder).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13445
Hope this is useful to those new (and maybe not so new) to this exciting field!
An increasingly large variety of molecular species are being cooled down to low energies in recent years, and innovative ideas and powerful techniques continue to emerge to gain ever more precise control of molecular motion. In this brief review we focus our discussions on two widely employed cooling techniques that have brought molecular gases into the quantum regime: association of ultracold atomic gases into quantum gases of molecules and direct laser cooling of molecules. These advances have brought into reality our capability to prepare and manipulate both internal and external states of molecules quantum mechanically, opening the field of cold molecules to a wide range of scientific explorations.
“Join our upcoming residential scientific meeting on ultracold molecules and quantum science, led by Professor @SimonLCornish @DurhamPhysics @DurhamQLM, Dr Hannah Price @Physics_uniBham and Professor Michael Tarbutt @ImperialPhysics: https://t.co/q5QXxdax3O”
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