PhD in Optical Atomic Clocks

Join us!/nWhen atoms are cooled to nanokelvin temperatures... At the University of Amsterdam we are exploring a unique mixture of atomic species, namely Rb and Sr. The long-standing goal is to bring these species together and form RbSr molecules./nYour goals will be to explore the opportunities that we have identified in the RbSr mixture. We will employ the recently demonstrated stabilization of the 87Rb-87Sr (Bose-Fermi) resonantly interacting mixture under confinement in an optical lattice. We will study the effects of further reduction in dimensionality by additional optical trapping in the form of optical lattices and/or optical tweezers. We have developed a high-resolution multi-wavelength objective that will be used to achieve better sensitivity for both species. We aim to create weakly bound RbSr molecules through the use of confinement-induced resonance. From there, we will be able to create ground-state molecules by optical adiabatic state-transfer techniques. Another avenue we will explore is the physics of strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixtures in our system./nThis project is embedded in the ultracold atom part of the QDNL programme./nLocation: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands