SIGNIFICANT EVENTS - SCIENCE EVENTS
11/21/03
Graduations at MIT
Three students celebrated their completion of their Ph.D. theses and graduated from PI
Wolfgang Ketterle's group in 2003. Their thesis titles are as follows:
Two of these students contributed to the recent paper "Fifty-fold improvement in the
number of quantum degenerate fermionic atoms" by Z. Hadzibabic, S. Gupta, C.A. Stan,
C.H. Schunck, M.W. Zwierlein, K. Dieckmann, and W. Ketterle, that was published in
Physical Review Letters (Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 160401 (2003)). Applying sympathetic
cooling by the Bose gas 23Na, these authors report obtaining 7 X 107 quantum degenerate
Fermi atoms in a magnetic trap. This substantial gain in the number of degenerate Fermi
atoms available to be studied promises to advance investigations of these atoms more
expeditiously.
Subhadeep Gupta "Experiments with Degenerate Bose and Fermi Gases"
Zoran Hadzibabic "Studies of a quantum degenerate fermionic lithium gas"
Aaron E. Leanhardt "Microtraps and Waveguides for Bose-Einstein Condensates"
