[Historical report created from GSU BEC Homepage:]

"The following news is just in from Stanford University.

Brian Anderson, a graduate student in the research group of Mark Kasevich, observed BEC on June 28, 1997 at Stanford University.

The condensation parameters were as follows:

• Number of atoms at transition: ~ 10,000
• Transition temperature: ~ 300 nK
• Species: ⁸⁷Rb, |F M_F> = |2 2>
• Trap type: TOP (10 kHz)
• Trap axial frequency: ~ 1 kHz
• Loading: Vapor cell
• Loading time: 150 sec
• Evaporation time: 24 sec

Update [May 1998]: At the 1998 DAMOP meeting, the Kasevich group reported the reconstruction of the apparatus and the generation of BEC at Yale University, attaining 10³ - 10⁴ condensate atoms."

Published in Physical Review A

Updated: 30 Jun 2006

"Spatial observation of Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb in a confining potential," B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A 59, R938-R941 (1999).