BEC 4

BEC 4 — The Rubidium Lab

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Current Projects

Mott Insulator
Spin mixtures
Quantum magnetism
Synthetic gauge fields
Quantum microscope

Current Members:

Graduate Students

Jinggang Xiang — jinggang@mit.edu

Enid Cruz-Colon — enidcruz@mit.edu

Candice Chua — candicec@mit.edu

Postdoctoral Associates

 

Principal Investigator

Wolfgang Ketterle — ketterle@mit.edu

 

Former Members:

Post-Doctoral Associates

  • Julius de Hond (Hardware/software quantum engineer at PASQAL, Paris, France)
  • Wenlan Chen (Assistant Professor of Physics at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  • Georgios Siviloglou (Associate Researcher at Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
  • David Weld (Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Graciana Puentes (Research Fellow at ICFO)
  • Dominik Schneble (Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, State University of New York)
  • Yoshio Torii (Professor of Physics at the University of Tokyo)

Graduate Students

  • Jacob Fricke (Master’s Diploma from ETH 2023) (Ph.D. student at ETH)
  • Woo Chang Chung (Ph.D. 2021) (AMO scientist at ColdQuanta)
  • William Cody Burton (Ph.D. 2018) (AMO scientist at Honeywell Quantum Solutions)
  • Colin Kennedy (Ph.D. 2017) (NRC postdoctoral fellow in Jun Ye’s group at NIST/UC Boulder)
  • Hirokazu Miyake (Ph.D. 2013) (JQI Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland)
  • Patrick Medley (Ph.D. 2010) (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford)
  • David Hucul (M.S. 2009) (Graduate Student University of Maryland)
  • Jongchul Mun (Ph.D. 2008) (KRISS Center for Nano & Quantum Science)
  • Micah Boyd (Ph.D. 2006)
  • Gretchen Campbell (Ph.D. 2006) (Adjunct Professor University of Maryland/Fellow of the NIST)
  • Erik Streed (Ph.D. 2005) (Research Leader at Griffith University)

Undergraduate Students

  • Dylan Rankin (2010)
  • Chris Sarabalis (2011)
  • Yichao Yu (2011-2012)
  • Yuri Lenskiy (2013-2015)
  • Justin Xiao (2015)
  • Ian Bouche (2019)

Visiting Students

  • Benedikt Groever (2013-2014)
  • Michael Messer (2011-2012)
  • Claire Lebouteiller (2011)
  • Thomas Rigaldo (2011)
  • Samarth Vadia (2015-2016)

The Spin Mott State

J. de Hond, J. Xiang, W.C. Chung, E. Cruz-Colón, W. Chen, W.C. Burton, C.J. Kennedy, and W. Ketterle:
Preparation of the spin-Mott state: A spinful Mott insulator of repulsively bound pairs.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128 , 093401 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.093401