Welcome to our lab!

Welcome to the website of BEC4, the Ketterle lab’s Rubidium-87 quantum gas microscope experiment! Our research focuses on exploring the world of spinful ultracold atoms, where many new and interesting phenomena occur.

We have a newly constructed rubidium quantum gas microscope. Using a high-resolution objective lens, we can detect the positions of single atoms trapped in an optical lattice. This advance has opened the door to studies of quantum simulation and atom-light interfaces in new regimes. Learn more about the science we are exploring on this experimental platform in the next section.

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