"Cooling and Trapping Atoms with Light: Atomic Clocks and Atom 'Lasers'"

Lecture Index

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Title Slide 00:00:00
Fingerprints of quantum mechanics 00:00:13
Evaporative cooling: for coffee and atoms 00:03:09
Evaporative cooling: for coffee and atoms 00:03:19
Evaporative cooling: for coffee and atoms 00:03:22
Evaporative cooling: for coffee and atoms 00:03:30
Bose-Einstein Condensation 00:04:34
Statistics of Indistinguishable systems: Quantum shell games 00:09:35
Statistics of Indistinguishable systems: Quantum shell games 00:10:40
Wavelengths of matter 00:11:10
Quantum Identity Crisis 00:15:07
Bose-Einstein Condensation 00:17:55
Novel Prize in Physics, 2001 00:19:48
Matter Waves 00:20:20
Quantum Tornados: Vortices in a superfluid 00:25:00
Other quantum weirdness 00:31:10
Continuous wave atom 'laser' 00:36:12
Making the jump to LIGHTSPEED! 00:37:03
...ON A BICYCLE?!? 00:39:40
Cold atom clouds and neutron stars 00:42:30
Basics of Timekeeping 00:44:22
A History of Timekeeping 00:45:31
An atomic timepiece 00:48:30
Laser cooled atoms improve timekeeping 00:51:30
Other uses for cold atoms... 00:55:25
Photograph - machine shop 00:57:38
Photograph - electronics 00:57:55
Photographs - blue laser 00:58:17
Acknowledgements 00:58:39