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- To develop high-flux Bose-Einstein condensed rubidium atoms
- To reach Fermionic superfluidity (SF), achieved through
sympathetic cooling of 6Li by 87Rb.
- Independent, single-species beamlines
- Laser cooling and evaporative cooling of Bosonic rubidium
- Atom optics and atom interferometry
- Surface physics with ultracold atoms
- Many-body physics and superfluid phenomena
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- To measure the thermal contribution to the Casimir force.
- To understand the feasibility of an experiment to study the
dynamical Casimir effect using atomic physics techniques.
- Second-generation apparatus for measurement of the static
Casimir force in the cylinder-plane configuration.
- Third-generation apparatus for parallel plate configuration.
- Prototype to assess the sensitivity of an ultracold atomic
setup to measure a small number of radio-frequency photons.
- High-precision measurement of macroscopic forces in the
micrometer range.
- Understanding of gravity at small distances.
- High-precision spectroscopy.
- Relativity of quantum vacuum.
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