All-optical dipole traps offer a number of advantages over radiofrequency traps, including elimination of the motion produced by the oscillating fields in a radiofrequency trap, improved ...

More information: Alban Urvoy et al. Direct Laser Cooling to Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dipole Trap, Physical Review Letters (2019). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.203202 ...

BEC containing about 10⁵ atoms was produced by forced evaporative cooling of the atomic sample in the crossed optical trap down to about 140 nK, in just about a second. The BEC was also produced in a ...

Weakly bound tetratomic molecules that are more than 3000 times colder than any previous four-atom molecules have been created using a newly developed “electroassociation” technique. The work, which ...

David Nadlinger‘s photo, Single Atom In An Ion Trap, was captured through the window of a vacuum chamber in an Oxford University laboratory, using an ordinary digital camera on a long exposure shot.