Nathan Lundblad Welcome to my homepage! work I am an assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Bates College. There is some relevant information about me here. Most recently I was an NRC postdoctoral fellow in the Laser Cooling & Trapping Group at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. Specifically, I worked with a rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) machine studying novel optical lattices with an eye toward applications in quantum information and the physics of strongly correlated atoms. I was also associated with the Joint Quantum Institute. I did my PhD at the California Institute of Technology, in the Quantum Sciences & Technology group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studying spinor BEC in a built-from-scratch all-optical setup. I was advised there by Lute Maleki and Rob Thompson, and at Caltech by Ken Libbrecht. In previous lives I worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and was an undergrad in the physics and astronomy departments at UC Berkeley. bio I was born in Utah, but upon my arrival my family promptly moved to Jerusalem. We lived there for seven years; the name of this domain springs from that time. Upon returning to the United States we lived in southern California; briefly Los Angeles but mainly the northern reaches of San Diego. I graduated from Vista High School. I have an older sister and a niece. In my spare time I like to camp and backpack, read, and think about playing rugby again. I currently live in Portland, ME, with my fiancée Anneliese Gerland. links Recent papers: Field-sensitive addressing and control of field-insensitive neutral-atom qubits (Nature Physics) Ultracold atoms in a radiofrequency-dressed optical lattice (Physical Review Letters) Some older papers: laser building,dual-species,spinor BEC. The archived copy of my thesis [pdf]. Me at ADSABS. contact I can be reached at lundblad@gmail.com. This page was last updated September 8, 2009