Light induced dynamics and control of correlated quantum systems
SFB 925Light induced dynamics and control of correlated quantum systems
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
15 June 2012
Wednesday night, June 13th 2012, we achieved the first Bose-Einstein condensate of 174Yb containing about 10000 atoms. In this experiment we prepared about 4x107 atoms in a MOT operating on the narrow 1S0-3P1 intercombination transition at 556 nm, which was loaded from a 2D-MOT employing pre-cooling on the broad 1S0-1P1 transition at 399 nm. We then transferred the atoms into a crossed optical dipole trap and cooled evaporatively to quantum degeneracy.