Article about shockwaves in BEC accepted in PRA (November 2009)

New ARC Discovery Grant!!! (October 2008).

Jessica Butcher starts her PhD in our group (July 2008).

Sebastian's paper on our new optical trap: click here (January 2008).

Start of new all-optical BEC setup (August 2007).

Sebastian Schnelle and Leif Humbert join the group as PhD students, both from the Sengstock group in Hamburg, Germany (May 2007).

BEC on our chip is back in the new lab! (January 2007).

Erik van Ooijen joins the group, takes over from Chris Vale who has moved to the molecular BEC group at Swinburne University in Melbourne (Dec 2006).

Tom Campey's paper on atom counting published in Phys. Rev. A (Nov 2006).

Postdoctoral position available - applications close 30th April 2006.  Details can be found here.

Matt Davis is running a weekly email service containing the latest arXiv postings on cold atoms and quantum optics; view archived selections or follow instructions to sign up here.

We are currently working on atom lasers and matter wave interference (cond-mat/0601690)

March 2005 - BEC up and running again in its new lab

A fire in August 2004 took the experiment from nanoKelvin to kiloKelvin range.

Paper on foil-based atom chip for BEC accepted for publication in J. Phys. B (17/06/04)

BEC was observed for the first time at UQ on the morning of Friday 20th February 2004. This is only the second BEC in Australia, and the third in the southern hemisphere!