Tunable optical potentials for ultra-cold atoms

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Optical techniques allow precise control over the internal and external degrees of freedom in an ultra-cold gas of atoms. For this reason, ultra-cold atoms are often used to simulate other physical systems, especially ones that are typically experimentally challenging or completely inaccessible to manipulation. This proposal aims to create tunable optical potentials for ultra-cold atomic gases. The fundamental goal is to exploit the tunability of ultra-cold gases to create powerful analogies to other physical systems, such as astrophysical and low temperature physics systems, and to further understanding through precise manipulation of ultra-cold atoms.