Stirred, Not Shaken - Ultracold Atoms in a Donut with Denise Kamp

28/07/2023 1h 0min Temporada 4 Episodio 51

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Episode Synopsis

This episode of the Hyperthesis features Denise Kamp, a PhD student in theoretical physics at McMaster University who studies dynamical instabilities in Bose-Enstein Condensates (BECs). These instabilities in form when a BEC is trapped in a double-well potential barrier and when a BEC is rotated in a donut shaped toroidal trap. We start the episode by discussing a proposal to use BECs as gravitational wave detectors, and finish off with a short history of BEC experiments.