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Graduate Students:
	Rachel Sapiro
	David Anderson
	Rui Zhang (graduated 2008)

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BEC in an Optical Lattice

• Bragg-reflecting atom cavity
• Kapitza-Dirac atom interferometer
• 1-D Mott insulator transition

BEC-Ion

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Atom interferometry using Kapitza-Dirac scattering in a magnetic trap
R. E. Sapiro, R. Zhang, and G. Raithel
Phys. Rev. A 79, 043630 (2009).

Reversible loss of superfluidity of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice
R. E. Sapiro, R. Zhang, and G. Raithel
New J. Phys. 11, 013013 (2009).

Role of the Mean-field in Bloch Oscillations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice and Harmonic Trap
R. Zhang, R. E. Sapiro, R. R. Mhaskar, and G. Raithel
Physical Review A 78, 053607 (2008)

Bose-Einstein condensate inside a Bragg-reflecting atom cavity
R. Zhang, R. E. Sapiro, N. V. Morrow, R. R. Mhaskar, and G. Raithel
Physical Review A 77, 063615 (2008)

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• Overview of our chamber
• Step 1: Primary MOT
• Step 2: Secondary MOT
• Step 3: Magnetic Trap
• Step 4: Evaporative Cooling
• Step 5: Observation of a BEC

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Cold atom thermometer (filling a shell potential against gravity as temperature increases)	Non-equilibrium BEC wave functions
Superfluid-to-Mott-insulator transition (and back) in 1-D
	Kapitza-Dirac scattering of a BEC on a 1-D optical lattice