Retired Experiments

We have some retired experiments weee

Spin Mixtures in Toroidal Traps

Spin mixtures were trapped in a time-averaged ring trap, created through the rapid scanning of an optical dipole trapping beam.

All-optical BEC Experiment

All optical traps for BEC have many advantages over those of conventional magnetic trap geometries, including simplicity of the setup, insensitivity to the spin state, and high BEC production rate. This BEC apparatus is now retired and was replaced by the Spinor Condensates in toroidal traps apparatus.

Bose-Einstein Condensation on an atom chip

The first BEC created in Australia was made at UQ on an atom chip. The retired experiment can now be found in the UQ Physics Museum.