Engineering controllable, strongly interacting many-body quantum systems is at the frontier
of quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Arrays of laser-cooled neutral …

Recent developments in the study of ultracold Rydberg gases demand an advanced level of
experimental sophistication, in which high atomic and optical densities must be combined …

We show that gravitational waves create phonons in a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC). A
traveling spacetime distortion produces particle creation resonances that correspond to the …

We report on a scheme for loading dysprosium atoms into a narrow-line three-dimensional
magneto-optical trap (3D MOT). Our approach replaces the conventional Zeeman slower …

The high precision and scalable technology offered by atom interferometry has the
opportunity to profoundly affect gravity surveys, enabling the detection of features of either …

We describe the cold-atom vacuum standards (CAVS) under development at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The CAVS measures pressure in the ultra …

We describe the apparatus of a dark-line two-dimensional (2D) magneto-optical trap (MOT)
of 85 Rb cold atoms with high optical depth (OD). Different from the conventional …

We study the widths of interspecies Feshbach resonances in a mixture of the fermionic
quantum gases Li 6 and K 40. We develop a model to calculate the width and position of all …

We report on the realization of a transversely loaded two-dimensional magneto-optical trap
serving as a source for cold strontium atoms. We analyze the dependence of the source's …

We report on the first experimental setup based on a 2D-/3D-magneto-optical trap (MOT)
scheme to create both Bose-Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases of several …