CPM Seminar

Quantum gas on a chip

Joseph Thywissen

Department of Physics
University of Toronto

Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute gas has allowed us to study the fundamentals of quantum statistics in a system where interactions are well understood. I will discuss why experiments with such gases must be at temperatures of a few microKelvin or colder. I will then present recent work on a single- and double-well potentials created above microfabricated trapping electrodes. We have trapped both fermions and bosons in such traps, opening up the prospects for direct comparison of species with different quantum statistics.