11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Feedback cooling atomic gases to quantum degeneracy

12 Dec 2022, 12:00
15m
Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R4

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Speaker

Matthew Goh (University of Oxford)

Description

We propose a new, low-loss method of cooling neutral alkali atoms to quantum degeneracy by optical feedback control. We present full-field quantum simulations demonstrating the viability of the technique, and show robustness to realistic experimental imperfections.

Author

Matthew Goh (University of Oxford)

Co-authors

Mr Zain Mehdi (The Australian National University) Dr Richard Taylor (The Australian National University) Dr Ryan Thomas (The Australian National University) Dr Ashton Bradley (University of Otago) Dr Michael Hush (Q-CTRL) Prof. Joseph Hope (The Australian National University) Dr Stuart Szigeti (The Australian National University)

Presentation materials