NMSU - Department of Physics - Colloquium Abstract



	Dominik Schneble Department of Physics & Astronomy SUNY Stony Brook
Exploring matter-wave physics with Bose-Einstein condensates.
Dilute clouds of atoms, cooled down to nanokelvin temperatures, exhibiti macroscopic quantum-mechanical behavior that can be studied and manipulated with a high degree of experimental precision. A decade after the first realization of Bose-Einstein condensation, research with ultracold quantum-degenerate gases now covers a wide range of topics in atomic and condensed-matter physics. In my talk I will give a short introduction to the field and its techniques, discuss a specific experiment on nonlinear matter-wave effects in Bose-Einstein condensates illuminated with laser light, and present ongoing work at Stony Brook that is aimed at experiments with condensate atoms in optical lattices.