ICE in Zero-G
ICE in Zero-G
IOA
The team
This research team is part of the LP2N laboratory of the "Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine" (IOA) in Bordeaux, France.
​​The research group "Cold Atoms in Bordeaux" (CAB) is devoted to the use of atomic waves, either to exploit the unrivaled sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers or to develop quantum simulators where the atoms are used to study the properties of transport and propagation in exotic potentials.
Projects
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Ultracold atoms and matter-waves
We are exploring the physics of ultracold atoms and matter-waves through 6 research projects.
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ALCALINF studies the interplay between quantum mechanics and gravity with Strontium atom interferometry.
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AUFRONS bring ultracold atoms close to nanostructures to create new quantum simulators for condensed matter.
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BIARO uses ultracold atoms in a resonant cavity to explore quantum physics and squeezing.
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ICE bring atom interferometry in microgravity for studying the frontiers of General Relativity.
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iXAtom joins academic research and industrial R&D to design the next generation of navigation systems.
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MIGA is a large infrastructure to study Gravitation Wave physics.
Latest news from the lab
March 26, 2019
A postdoctoral Position is open in the ICE Team.
This study aims at defining a method to create an optical bubble-shaped trap for ultracold atoms, compliant with our microgravity simulator which already produces ultracold atoms in an optical tweezer. Our method to produce quantum bubbles is inspired by double dressed states which have been studied in our group to trap Rubidium atoms close to a surface by combining telecom wave...
October 5, 2018
A Ph D. position is available for Fall 2020. You can download the subject: PhDiXAtom
Master 2 Internship also available: InternshipiXAtom
September 20, 2017
December 5, 2016
November 21, 2016
March 22, 2019
Welcome to Dylan O. Sabulsky and Xinhao Zhou as new members of the MIGA team as Post-doc and PhD respectively. Congratulations to Joseph who is now starting his PhD
November 30, 2018
Congratulations to Maxime Bellouvet who defended his PhD on Bose Einstein Condensation and simulating new near fields traps using a nanostructured surface.
April 14, 2018
We have recently started operating our 0g-simulator which gives access to microgravity in the laboratory. The first results are very promising : for now we have an ultra-cold atomic source in 0g of some 10,000 atoms at a temperature below 1...
March 8, 2018
We recently obtained the first BEC on ICE, through an all optical cooling setup, in one chamber. The atom sample is composed of about 50.000 atoms and the critical temperature is 150nK.
This represents a significant progress towards imp...
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