Atomic Physics Seminars |
Events During the Week of February 9th through February 16th, 2025
Monday, February 10th, 2025
- Title to be announced
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Dr. Josiah Sinclair, MIT
- Host: Mark Saffman
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
- No events scheduled
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
- Making and probing Bose-Einstein condensates of polar molecules
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Dr. Ian Stevenson, Columbia University
- Abstract: Recently, our lab realized the first BEC of polar molecules. By eliminating two- and three-body collisional losses via double microwave shielding, gases of sodium-cesium molecules are evaporatively cooled to quantum degeneracy. The BEC reveals itself via a bimodal momentum distribution when the phase-space density exceeds one. In this talk, I will share our latest insights into controlling the dipolar interactions in the BEC. Notably, we find that as dipolar interactions increase, their characteristic length scale exceeds the interparticle separation, signifying the onset of strong interactions.
- Host: Mark Saffman
Friday, February 14th, 2025
- No events scheduled