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Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicistborn 1957
Supervised 48 doctoral students (53 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Herbert Walther as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students53
- cited by a thesis record2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Yu-Kun Lu“Exploring Atom-Light Scattering in the Quantum Regime”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Oriol Rubies-Bigorda“Light-Induced Collective Interactions in Arrays of Quantum Emitters”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jinggang Xiang“Quantum Gas Microscopy of Bosonic Correlations in the Continuum”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Li Du“Super-resolution Control of Ultracold Dipolar Atoms on a 50-nm Scale”
2024 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Michael Alan Cantara“Dipolar Shielding and Sub-wavelength Bilayers in a Quantum Gas of Dysprosium”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Juliana Park“Quantum Controlled Collisions and Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold NaLi Molecules”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Paul Niklas Jepsen“Spin Dynamics in a Tunable Heisenberg Magnet Realized with Ultracold Atoms”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Woo Chang Chung“Quantum Simulation of Spin-1 Physics with Bosons in Optical Lattice”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ivana Ljubomirova Dimitrova“Realizing quantum spin models with ⁷Li atoms in an optical lattice”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
William Lunden“Development of a new Dy quantum gas experiment”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Eber Nolasco-Martinez“Low noise magnetic fields in ultracold experiment”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
William Cody Burton“Ultracold bosons in optical lattices for quantum measurement and simulation”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Junru Li“Spin-orbit coupling and supersolidity in ultracold quantum gases”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Timur Michael Rvachov“Ultracold ²³Na⁶Li molecules in the triplet ground state”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sean Burchesky“Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with observation of a stripe phase”
2017 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Colin Kennedy“Creating novel quantum states of ultracold bosons in optical lattices”
2017 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Edward Su“Fluctuations and state preparation in quantum degenerate gases of sodium and lithium”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yichao Yu“Realization of Bose-Einstein condensation with Lithium-7 atoms”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Aviv Keshet“A next-generation apparatus for lithium optical lattice experiments”
2013 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hirokazu Miyake“Probing and preparing novel states of quantum degenerate rubidium atoms in optical lattices”
2013 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David LaGrange Butts“Light pulse atom interferometry at short interrogation times for inertial navigation”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ye-Ryoung Lee“Ultracold Fermi gas with repulsive interactions”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Caleb A Christensen“Ultracold molecules from ultracold atoms : interactions in sodium and lithium gas”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gyu-Boong Jo“Quantum coherence and magnetism in bosonic and fermionic gases of ultracold atoms”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Patrick Medley“Thermometry and cooling of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andre Schirotzek“Radio-frequency spectroscopy of ultracold atomic Fermi gases”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Hucul“Magnetic super-exchange with ultra cold atoms in spin dependent optical lattices”
2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Jongchul Mun“Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices : the superfluid to Mott insulator phase transition”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christian H. Schunck“Pairing and superfluidity in strongly interacting Fermi gases”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Micah Boyd“Novel trapping techniques for shaping Bose-Einstein condensates”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gretchen K. Campbell“⁸⁷Rubidium Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jit Kee Chin“Strongly-interacting fermions in an optical lattice”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Daniel E. Miller“Studying coherence in ultra-cold atomic gases”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Thomas A. Jr Pasquini“Quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein Condensates”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
- cited by a thesis record
Martin W Zwierlein“High-temperature superfluidity in an ultracold Fermi gas”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yong-Il Shin“Experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Erik William Streed“⁸⁷Rubidium Bose-Einstein condensates : machine construction and quantum Zeno experiments”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kaiwen Xu“Effects of interaction in Bose-Einstein condensates”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jamil R Abo-Shaeer“Novel ground states of Bose-condensed gases”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Claudiu Andrei Stan“Experiments with interacting Bose and Fermi gases”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ananth P. Chikkatur“Colliding and moving Bose-Einstein condensates : studies of superfluidity and optical tweezers for condensate transport”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Aaron E. Leanhardt“Microtraps and waveguides for Bose-Einstein condensates”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Shin Inouye“Manipulating Bose-Einstein condensates with laser light”
2001 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Dan M. Stamper-Kurn“Peeking and poking at a new quantum fluid : studies of gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates in magnetic and optical traps”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Dallin S. Durfee“Dynamic properties of dilute Bose-Einstein condensates”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Marc-Oliver Mewes“Bose-Einstein condensation of sodium atoms”
1997 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
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- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata3
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1974
- stated by Wikidataborn 1977
- stated by Wikidata
The line above and below4 steps
The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
- 1 step up
stated by WikidataHerbert Walther
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataHans Kopfermann
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataJames Franck
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataEmil Warburgstated by WikidataPaul Drude
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 53 people: 48 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career4
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
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