Simulating Bose-Einstein Condensate
Tom Judd and Mark Fromhold

A simulation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate reflecting from a zone plate structure etched in a silicon surface. The accompanying movie shows the focussing of both reflected and transmitted atoms in a BEC that is incident on a free-standing zone plate.

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Further information about the underlying physics, and other research taking place at Nottingham ultra-cold atom group, can be found at:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Eppzkab/ColdAtoms/projects.html