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SUMMARY:Ultracold Atomic Gases: The Coldest Stuff in the Universe - Profes
 sor Zoran Hadzibabic\, Cavendish Laboratory
DTSTART:20190220T200000Z
DTEND:20190220T210000Z
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CONTACT:Akshat Pandey
DESCRIPTION:Clouds of atoms cooled to nanokelvin temperatures in the lab a
 re the coldest things in the universe\, and provide us with some striking 
 manifestations of quantum mechanics. The quest to reach such low temperatu
 res was initially motivated by the desire to observe Bose-Einstein condens
 ation in a close to its textbook form originally envisioned in 1925\, and 
 this was eventually achieved in 1995\, but then this achievement opened a 
 whole new field of physics. These days ultracold atomic gases are used as 
 a highly flexible experimental platform for studies of a wide range of man
 y-body (collective) quantum phenomena\, and could also find various practi
 cal applications in the near future. I will gave a very basic introduction
  to this field\, discussing what such ultra-low temperatures mean and how 
 they are achieved\, and showing some illustrative examples of modern resea
 rch.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\,  Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Ro
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