Seminarium Optyczne

This talk will have two parts that are strongly intertwined: first wewill present to the broader community our recent results on trappingultracold cesium and potassium atoms in magneto-optical traps, for thefirst time in Poland. This achievement is a necessary step towardsexperiments that require ultra-low temperatures and, maybe even moreso, quantum degenerate samples. In the second part of the talk we willaddress the physics we want to study with the current setup and withthe setups that are currently under construction. We will give a briefoverview of planned experiments: Feshbach spectroscopy of 39K-41K and41K-Cs, p-wave superfluidity, study of physics in two dimensional quasi crystals, laser cooling to quantum degeneracy (without evaporation) and development of non-destructive measurement methods to speed up data acquisition.