Some snapshot from inside and outside our labs
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<- The group in June 2024
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<- The group in March 2024.
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Brilliant young minds were on the stage for the 11th Bonn Humboldt Award Winners forum "Quantum Science: from Foundations to Instrumentation"
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The 11th Bonn Humboldt Award Winners forum "Quantum Science: from Foundations to Instrumentation" was held in Bonn with a lot of familiar faces making the day special.
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Julia receives the Jasinsek Kunkelmann-Scholarship from the Foundation for Physics and Astronomy in Bonn 🎉
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The fiber lab won the price for best group photo!
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^We are quite happy about the result of 'every lab does a group photo'
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<- The group in May 2023
November 2022: The green ytterbium MOT
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For unconventional problems, look for unconventional solutions.
The fiber lab uses a dentist drill for drilling in tiny things.
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The rubidium experiment is shiny! But the backstory is sad. Due to a broken ion detector the vacuum had to be opened for a greater operation. This is the new ion detector. We have high hopes for this one!
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The group in May 2022
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The group as of March 2022. From left to right: Hannes, Thilina, Tina, Sebastian, Cedric, Lukas, Nina, Julia, Lukas, Florian, Peggy, Hannes.
The HQO team excells in creativity! This is the chamber design as of Spring 2022!
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Team RQO/HQO at work!
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Our Group in October 2021. Column by column, starting from top left: Tina, Cedric, Rafael, Nina, Lukas, Roberto. Lukas. Hannes, Sebastian, Hannes, Thilina.
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September 2021: Group picture.
From left to right, starting in the top row:
Roberto, Lukas T, Hannes B, Lukas A, Sebastian, Tina
Jiachen, Noaman, Rafael, Thilina, Cedric, Nina
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The ytterbium glass cell version 2.0!
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The rubidium MOT has been found. Sebastian is happy!
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2021 - RQO experiment bakeout, also known as Chamby der kleine Krokodill
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RQO lab moving: Before and after
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March 2021: Ytterbium experiment before baking!
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February 2021: Looking into the ytterbium experiment
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Part of the RQO team testing their moving skills. Übung macht den Meister.
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2021 - when Denmark got so cold outside that the aircon broke and the inside became a sauna 🔥
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Celebrating a little bit of science
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YQO experiment caged after moving
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December 2020: Beautiful sunrise over Bonn and moving trucks with the ytterbium experiment. This will be the new home!
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Dancing with physicists! The new labs in Bonn are getting ready!
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Extreme supervision of master student!
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We are pretty crucial to the functionality of the department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy in Odense! Coffee machine not broken anymore ☕ The chemists can thank us later.
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Plan for new labs. Life is sweet in Gummy Bear Lab.
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Outdoor stuff is allowed again! 🍧🌞😎 Part of NQO group going for ice cream in nice weather. Hannes takes the picture.
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University is all empty during lockdown. Only essential workers allowed. Hannes is essential ♥
Group in March 2020 (from home office). Noaman, Sebastian + family, José, Thilina, Hannes, Nina, Mikkel, and Rafael + family
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How we feel about being locked out of the labs.
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Lasertag champions!
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The story of the rice 🔥
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Lab art.
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September 2019: Nina recieves Zonta PhD grant
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Group in September 2019, top row from left: Mogens, Noaman, Nina, and Hannes. Bottom row from left: Mikkel, Sebastian, Stuti, and José.
Plancks at SDU 2019: Wolfgang Ketterle lecturing on ultracold matter with qualified assistance!
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May 2019: First fluorescence of Yb in our new experiment!
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Sebastian showing the RQO experiment to visitors from the Villum Foundation
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Part of NQO lunch club on a sunny day!
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The group in March 2019! Front row from left: Philipp, Mikkel, Aksel, Sebastian and Emil, Back row from left: Noaman, Hannes, Nina and Mogens.
Good thing it is a bit grainly, because it is not the luckiest picture of us.
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The group in October 2018. Nina, Julia, Mikkel, Sebastian and Simon fill the back row. In the front from left is Aksel, Hannes, Philipp, Holger, Emil and Mogens.
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Sebastian talking at Science and Beers at Odense Studenterhus on the 12th of October 2018. To the talk the organizers recommended a Citra IPA beer, because it’s a “light” beer 😉
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Advanced SRITP amd GiRYD School in Israel
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Advanced experiment-theory collaboration!
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We have experimentally observed correlations between three photons! Here the observed connected third order correlation function in Jacobi coordinates!
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A photo from the empty lab before the new ceiling was put in. The wrapped experiment has been decorated with a bow, and we look forward to unpacking it!
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The group in February 2018.
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We have successfully measured the first EIT signal in our new lab in Odense. We still have to optimize the signal a bit and especially start to optically pump our atoms. But this is already a good start.
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We successfully captured the first Rubidium atoms after the move to Odense and can already load them into the optical dipole trap. Next we will align the probes.
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During the night, the fluoresence of the magneto-optical trap is much brighter?
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The group in November 2016
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Our Group in May 2016
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Hannes wears his PhD hat after successfully defending his thesis
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Christoph and Asaf finish the hat, setting a new record for remaining time in the institute
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A photo of magneto-optically trapped atoms in our vacuum chamber. The atomic cloud is placed in the center of eight field plates to precisely control electric fields.
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March 2015: new group picture with new people.
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Transmission of probe light vs electric field: EIT leads to happy faces.
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March 2014: new group photo
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June 2013: Hannes consuming his usual weekday breakfast.
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August 2013: Advanced device labelling techniques
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April 2013: The romantic glow of our blue Rydberg excitation light
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January 2013: first absorption images of our crossed optical dipole trap
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November 2012: You can also see our MOT by eye
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November 2012: first iteration of our setup
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November 2012: A first (fuzzy) image of our magneto-optical trap
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July 2012: ScoPe Volleyball tournament 2nd place!