July 2nd, 2010: The paper Classical phase-space approach for coherent matter waves by F. Impens and D. Guéry-Odelin, Phys. Rev. A
81, 065602 (2010), is now published.
April 28th, 2010: The paper "Mesoscopic Ensembles of Polar Bosons in Triple-Well Potentials" is now published: Phys. Rev. Lett.
104, 170404 (2010) (
pdf).
April 19th, 2010: We obtain
our first 87Rb BEC in Toulouse!
February 12th, 2010: The
paper "Fast Optimal Frictionless Atom Cooling in Harmonic Traps:
Shortcut to Adiabaticity" is now published: Phys. Rev. Lett.
104, 063002 (2010) (
pdf).
November 24th, 2009: Thierry Lahaye receives the 2009 Louis Armand prize of the French Academy of Sciences (
more info...).
November 19th, 2009: The review paper "The physics of dipolar bosonic quantum gases" is now published: Rep Prog Phys
72, 126401 (2009) (
pdf).
November 2009: Prof. David Guéry-Odelin has been appointed as a junior member of the
Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
October 21st, 2009: Our
paper "From multimode to monomode guided atom lasers: an entropic
analysis" is now published: Phys Rev A
80, 041605(R) (2009) (
pdf).
October 21st, 2009: Antoine
Couvert has sucessfully defended his PhD thesis "Production et étude de lasers à
atomes guidés, et de leur interaction avec des défauts contrôlés"
. Congratulations!
September 30th, 2009: Our
paper "From multimode to monomode guided atom lasers: an entropic
analysis" has been accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A (Rapid
Communication).
May 29th, 2009: Our paper "From multimode to monomode guided atom lasers: an entropic analysis" is now
available on the arXiv.
March 3rd, 2009: Charlotte
Fabre and François Vermersch join us for their Master (M2) internship,
after which they will start their PhD's in the group.
February 2009:
We have finally finished moving the BEC experimental setup from the LKB
at ENS Paris, to Toulouse. Reconstruction begins...
