Palacios Álvarez, Silvana (Date of defense: 2017-07-31)
This work reports on the construction of a new-generation system capable to create single-mode spinor Bose-Einstein condensates of 87Rb, and non-destructively probe them using optical Faraday rotation. ...
Martin Ciurana, Ferran (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Optical magnetometers use magnetically-sensitive atomic ensembles and optical read-out to detect the amplitude of magnetic fields. They have become the most sensitive instruments for measuring low-frequency ...