Anamika Nair Karunakaran, who did an internship in our lab 2016 has successfully defended her PhD at the University of Delft. Her topic was “Investigations of microresonator based frequency combs”
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Pedro Rivero Antunez
5/2024 – today Postdoc on BEC
Pedro obtained a 4-year Physics degree in 2016 from the University of Seville (Spain), and a master’s degree in Particle Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Granada (2017), finishing his master thesis entitled «Axial Anomaly in the 5d-Anti-deSitter /4d-Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence».
His academic journey continued with a PhD focusing on fabrication and characterization of nanostructured ceramics at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics of the University of Seville, where he graduated in June 2023.
In May 2024, he joined the Cretan Matter Waves group as a postdoc researcher for the BEC2 project.
Sofia Botsi: seminar on the BECs on the International Space Station
Our alumni, Sofia Botsi, comes to give us a seminar on the dipole trap for the International Space Station that she is working on (Wednesday 28 February 2024, 12:00 – 13:00, in the lab).
An Optical Dipole Trap for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
When atoms are cooled down to temperatures within a millionth of a degree of absolute zero, they form exotic quantum states, such as Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs). While BECs have been routinely produced in terrestrial laboratories, there are increasing efforts in creating and utilizing these macroscopic quantum phenomena in the microgravity environment for fundamental physics investigations. NASA’s Cold Atom Lab (CAL) instrument is a multiuser ultracold atomic physics facility operating onboard the International Space Station that has enabled such space studies of interacting quantum gases since its launch in 2018. In addition to the toolbox of capabilities originally built into CAL, here the compatibility tests for an optical dipole trap development as a potential addition to a future science module resupply are presented. Such an implementation can further enhance the association of weakly-bound diatomic molecules from Rb and K atomic mixtures enabling for ultracold molecule studies.
And a link to the preprint of their related Nature Paper
CARIOQA-PMP has been approved by the EU
Our research proposal “Cold Atom Rubidium Interferometer in Orbit for Quantum Accelerometry – Pathfinder Mission Preparation” (CARIOQA-PMP) has been approve by the EU!
The objective of the CARIOQA-PMP project is to enable Europe to deploy quantum gravimeters/accelerometers in space through a Quantum Pathfinder Mission within the decade.
The future CARIOQA of the EU is to map earth’s gravity field using
Our Colloquium for Review of Modern Physics has been accepted!
Colloquium: Atomtronic circuits: From many-body physics to quantum technologies
Rev. Mod. Phys. (Link)
Luigi Amico, Dana Anderson, Malcolm Boshier, Jean-Philippe Brantut, Leong-Chuan Kwek, Anna Minguzzi, and Wolf von Klitzing
Accepted 13 June 2022
ABSTRACT
Atomtronics is an emerging field that aims to manipulate ultracold atom moving in matter wave circuits for both fundamental studies in quantum science and technological applications. In this colloquium, we review recent progress in matter-wave circuitry and atomtronics-based quantum technology. After a short introduction to the basic physical principles and the key experimental techniques needed to realize atomtronic systems, we describe the physics of matter-waves in simple circuits such as ring traps and two-terminal systems. The main experimental observations and outstanding questions are discussed. We also present possible applications to a broad range of quantum technologies, from quantum sensing with atom interferometry to future quantum simulation and quantum computation architectures.
Wolf’s colloquium at Laser-Lab Europe is online
Wolf von Klitzing’s colloquium on Matterwave Optics as a Quantum Technology is now available on Youtube.
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Giannis Passes his PhD Viva
Giannis Drougakis passed the viva for his PhD with flying colors !!!
Well done Dr Drougakis !!
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BEC.gr @ Chat Lab
Unfortunately, this year we will again not be able to have a real Researchers’ Night with great experiments for the public. However, there will be a number of online events. Do have a look at researchersnight.gr/chat-lab/, where you can book a chat with Wolf von Klitzing.
GiaSaaS — Our new Space Mission
The GiaSaaS mission to send a Greek satellite into space has just been selected. It will be lead by OHB-Hellas and encompasses a Pan-Greek consortium of companies and universities, including the Libre-Space-Foundation, the National Observatory of Athens, the The Microprocessors Laboratory and Digital Systems Lab of the NTUA, the Greek Center for Security Studies (KEMEA).