August 5, 2009
The site has been updated, and summaries of recent publications have been added.
October 3, 2006
New site is up.
December 22, 2005
On Dec 22, 2005 we made our first metastable BEC. Above is shown a 3-dimensional rendering of our time of flight data. The three images show atom clouds after they have expanded for 0.2 seconds. For each successive image the atom cloud is cooled further, towards absolute zero. As the temperature of the cloud gets colder, a sharp peak emerges from a broad background, the tell-tale sign of a BEC.