RUI: Bose-Einstein Condensates with Vortices and Tunable Interactions

这个实验研究计划的重点是实验k在Feshbach共振，多冷凝系统，和涡旋状态。该计划将使用实验来改变Rb-87的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体（BEC）中原子相互作用的强度，并注意二元BEC中组分分离的物理学和单组分BEC非相互作用极限中的涡旋态。这项工作将直接有助于理解稀释玻色气体中的涡旋和超流性。这项工作的更广泛的影响福尔斯主要落在前沿的实验BEC研究本科教育的关系。本科研究人员很容易使用操作BEC设备。事实上，这种仪器完全是为他们使用而存在的，没有来自研究生的竞争。与此同时，该实验室还接待来自该地区各大学的本科生参观，发展和扩大对原子捕获和冷却以及玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚等令人兴奋的领域的兴趣。

This experimental research program focuses on experiments k in Feshbach resonances, multiple-condensate systems, and vortex states. The program will use experiments to vary the strength of the atomic interactions in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of Rb-87, with an attention to the physics of component separation in binary BECs and vortex states in the noninteracting limit of single-component BECs. The work will contribute directly to the understanding of vortices and superfluidity in dilute Bose gases. The broader impact of this work falls primarily within the relationship of cutting-edge experimental BEC research to undergraduate education. Undergraduate researchers easily use the operating BEC apparatus. Indeed, the apparatus exists exclusively for their use, with no competition from graduate students. At the same time, the laboratory hosts visits by undergraduate classes from colleges throughout the region, developing and expanding the interest in the exciting fields of atom trapping and cooling and Bose-Einstein condensation.