Latest (2012)

7 December 2012|ilp Sengstock

First quantum degenrate Fermi gas of Ytterbium in Hamburg

Photo: AG Sengstock

We have successfully cooled fermionic 173Yb atoms to quantum degeneracy. Typically the Fermi seas we produce contain up to 5 *105 atoms at...

15 June 2012|SFB925

Research highlight: Ytterbium BEC in Hamburg

Wednesday night, June 13th 2012, we achieved the first Bose-Einstein condensate of 174Yb containing about 10000 atoms. In this experiment we prepared...

13 June 2012|ilp Sengstock

First Ytterbium BEC in Hamburg

Photo: AG Sengstock

Wednesday night, June 13th 2012, we achieved our first BEC of 174Yb containing about 10000 atoms. In this experiment we prepared about 4x107 atoms in...

29 May 2012|SFB925

Research highlight: Tunable Gauge Potential in Optical Lattices

This weeks issue of Physical Review Letters features our article "Tunable gauge potential for neutral and spinless particles in driven lattices". The...