Eric Cornell: Stone Cold Science Lecture from “Stone Cold Science: Bose-Einstein Condensation” at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India
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- 23.09.2009
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Chapter 12 of 15: What's BEC for?
As technology moves ever smaller the need to understand quantum mechanics becomes ever greater - and BEC provides a model for looking at just that. (3 minutes, 42 seconds)
Chapter 1 of 15: Introduction
Before venturing into the strange world of Bose Einstein Condensates we get a brief look into the world of the very small. (2 minutes, 34 seconds)
Chapter 2 of 15: A trip through the Kelvin scale
To give us some idea of just how cold Eric guides us on a guided tour through the Kelvin scale. (4 minutes, 6 seconds)
Chapter 3 of 15: Quantum Mechanics 101
For all the non physicists out there we get a little background on the basics of quantum mechanics and just how the uncertainty principle predicits the "wavy" nature of a Bose Einstein Condensate. (5 minutes, 10 seconds)
Chapter 4 of 15: The Forbidden Physics Fruit
The laws of thermodynamics seems to stop the formation of bose einstein condensates. Eric Cornell has other ideas. (4 minutes, 35 seconds)
Chapter 5 of 15: Who tricked nature?
To create a BEC you have to trick nature - but who was it who pulled the wool over their eyes? (4 minutes, 19 seconds)
Chapter 6 of 15: The long wait for BEC
Despite being postulated in the 1920s it wasn't until the discovery of laser cooling by another team of Nobel laureates that creating a BEC became a realistic possibility. (4 minutes, 40 seconds)
Chapter 7 of 15: Cooling Molecular Chai
The use of the magnetic bowl gave Eric and Carl a brilliant secondary form of cooling their rubidium - evaporative cooling. (3 minutes, 29 seconds)
Chapter 8 of 15: Spying on BEC
Working with such low temperature phenomena requires a whole new way of observation and recording. (5 minutes, 5 seconds)
Chapter 9 of 15: Perseverance and Passion
The search for BEC had already been going for a few years when Eric and Carl set out - with very little encouragement. (4 minutes, 44 seconds)
Chapter 10 of 15: Face to face with BEC
Only weeks after the conference that threatened to finish their race for BEC they found a new way to record their data - with fantastic results. (3 minutes, 11 seconds)
Chapter 11 of 15: What's a BEC like?
Very much like a jelly dessert apparently. Once Eric's team had created the BEC they carried out a series of experiments to characterise them. (7 minutes, 23 seconds)
Chapter 12 of 15: What's BEC for?
As technology moves ever smaller the need to understand quantum mechanics becomes ever greater - and BEC provides a model for looking at just that. (3 minutes, 42 seconds)
Chapter 13 of 15: Q&A - Part 1
Why rubidium?Getting around low temperature ferro-magnetism? (6 minutes, 46 seconds)
Chapter 14 of 15: Q&A - Part 2
What are the hurdles in making a quantum computer?Can you apply BEC to holograms? (5 minutes, 10 seconds)
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Eric Cornell travels more than 9000 miles to give the students of Thiagarajar College of Engineering a taste of the strange world of science at a billionth of a degree ab…
