Alloing, Mathieu (Date of defense: 2014-05-28)
In this thesis, we report experimental evidence of a "gray" condensate of excitons, as predicted theoretically by M. Combescot et al. Most importantly, the condensate is characterized by the macroscopic ...
Zamora, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)
The study of ultracold atoms constitutes one of the hottest areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum optics. The experimental and theoretical achievements in the last three decades ...
Ebling, Ulrich (Date of defense: 2014-11-03)
Ultracold atomic gases have established themselves as quantum systems, which are clean and offer a high degree of control over crucial parameters. They are well isolated from their environment and thus ...