Creating high flux degenerate quantum atomic sources with active feedback

This project aims to deliver a new technique for cooling dilute ultracold gases, which are rapidly transitioning from a fundamental physics platform to a building block for quantum technology. This technique is measurement-based feedback cooling. Unlike the current evaporative methods, feedback cooling neither loses atoms, nor relies on elastic collisions or internal atomic structure. This opens up the possibility of directly cooling traditionally un-coolable systems. This expands the quality and range of available atomic sources, benefitting research into exotic materials, and benefitting precision sensors used across applications from navigation to mining.