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Cold atoms Quantum Matter lecture, spring 2013 Chalmers/GU

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Cold atoms

Quantum Matter lecture, spring 2013Chalmers/GU

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start-up of cold atom physics...

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start-up of cold atom physics...

cooling and trapping

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start-up of cold atom physics...

cooling and trapping

controlling interactions

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What makes it all possible?

Cooling and trapping!

Control of interactions between atoms via Feshbach resonance! (”The magician in the world of absolute zero”, C. Chin)

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What’s the trick!?!??

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Explaining it all.... on the blackboard!

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OK, pretty cool stuff...But why are cold atoms that hot?

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Designer physics!

... probing coherence and correlations in quantum matter ”on demand”...

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