Muga Group
We investigate the dynamics and control of ultracold atoms.
Recent lines of interest are
- The atom diode: one way laser barriers for atomic motion
- Shortcuts to adiabaticity: methods to accelerate expansions, transport and internal state manipulations without final excitations.
- Diffraction in time: a phenomenon analogous to diffraction of light but due to time-dependent obstacles and slits. It will be of increasing importance in cold atom dynamics and applications such as the atom laser, time of flight and ultrashort pulses
techniques.