Expansion dynamics of a shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate

F Jia, Z Huang, L Qiu, R Zhou, Y Yan, D Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We report the creation of a shell BEC in the presence of Earth's gravity with immiscible dual-
species BECs of sodium and rubidium atoms. After minimizing the displacement between …

Perspective on quantum bubbles in microgravity

N Lundblad, DC Aveline, A Balaž… - Quantum Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress in understanding quantum systems has been driven by the exploration of the
geometry, topology, and dimensionality of ultracold atomic systems. The NASA Cold Atom …

Efficient matter-wave lensing of ultracold atomic mixtures

M Meister, A Roura - Quantum Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Mixtures of ultracold quantum gases are at the heart of high-precision quantum tests of the
weak equivalence principle, where extremely low expansion rates have to be reached with …