Waseem Bakr

Rubidium Lab

Graduate Student (2006-2011)
Was a postdoc in the Ultracold Quantum Gases Group at MIT
Now a professor at Princeton University

Thesis

Microscopic Studies of Quantum Phase Transitions in Optical Lattices
2011, PhD Thesis

Publications

Orbital Excitation Blockade and Algorithmic Cooling in Quantum Gases
12/2011
Nature 480, 500-503 (2011) arXiv:1105.5834
W. S. Bakr, P. M. Preiss, M. E. Tai, R. Ma, J. Simon, M. Greiner
Photon-Assisted Tunneling in a Biased Strongly Correlated Bose Gas
08/2011
Physical Review Letters 107, 095301 (2011) arXiv:1105.4629v2
R. Ma, M. E. Tai, P. M. Preiss, W. S. Bakr, J. Simon, M. Greiner
Quantum simulation of antiferromagnetic spin chains in an optical lattice
04/2011
Nature 472, 307-312 (2011) arXiv:1103.1372
J. Simon, W. S. Bakr, R. Ma, M. E. Tai, P. M. Preiss, M. Greiner
Probing the Superfluid-to-Mott Insulator Transition at the Single-Atom Level
06/2010
Science 329, 547-550 (2010) arXiv:1006.0754v1
W. S. Bakr, A. Peng, M. E. Tai, R. Ma, J. Simon, J. Gillen, S. Fölling, L. Pollet, M. Greiner
A Quantum Gas Microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard regime optical lattice
11/2009
Nature 462, 74-77 (2009) arXiv:0908.0174
W. S. Bakr, J. Gillen, A. Peng, S. Fölling, M. Greiner
Two dimensional quantum gas in a hybrid surface trap
08/2009
Physical Review A 80, 021602 (2009) arXiv:0812.3630v1
J. Gillen, W. S. Bakr, A. Peng, P. Unterwaditzer, S. Fölling, M. Greiner