{"id":112,"date":"2017-04-05T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/?p=112"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:09:11","slug":"parker-lab-makes-our-first-mot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/news\/parker-lab-makes-our-first-mot\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker Lab makes our first MOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parker Lab has now made our first lithium Magneto-Optical Trap. Using six-beams of laser light, we cool lithium-6 atoms to near 1 mK (1\/1000 of a degree from absolute zero!). This exciting development is the first step toward realizing our quantum simulations! Congratulations to the team!<a href=\"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOT-with-Zeeman-Slower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOT-with-Zeeman-Slower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOT-with-Zeeman-Slower.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOT-with-Zeeman-Slower-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOT-with-Zeeman-Slower-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOT-with-Zeeman-Slower-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parker Lab has now made our first lithium Magneto-Optical Trap. Using six-beams of laser light, we cool lithium-6 atoms to near 1 mK (1\/1000 of a degree from absolute zero!). This exciting development is the first step toward realizing our quantum simulations! Congratulations to the team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerlab.gatech.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}