Tag Archives: Matterwave optics

The IESL atom laser goes online

Posted on 25/03/2014 by IESL

The atom laser paper of the IESL group will go online coming Thursday at the New Journal of Physics. A popular summary for the paper: Optical lasers have revolutionised physics. Their extreme brightness has enabled applications ranging from laser-welding of … Continue reading →

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Accelerating and abruptly autofocusing matter waves

Posted on 10/05/2013 by IESL

Phys. Rev. A   87   043637 (2013) N. K. Efremidis, V. Paltoglou, and W. von Klitzing http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.043637 Abstract: We predict that classes of coherent matter waves can self-accelerate without the presence of an external potential. Such Bose-Einstein condensates can … Continue reading →

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