Welcome to the home page of the Ultra-cold Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics Laboratory at the College of William and Mary.

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   The laboratory investigates physical phenomena in cold and ultra-cold matter. We focus our research on:

Ultra-cold quantum gases .

-  Precision measurements of fundamental interactions .

- Precision interferometry for the inertial sensing of forces, accelerations, rotations, and gradients.

You can learn more about our research activities
here.

Animated data of the formation of an 87Rb BEC
(courtesy of the Thywissen Lab, U. of Toronto).


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   We are a new lab looking for motivated undergraduate and Ph. D. graduate students to do research in  ultra-cold AMO physics. If you are interested in our research, please contact Prof. Seth Aubin.

   For a list of available undergraduate research projects, click here.
Web page updated: October 4, 2009.