{"id":135,"date":"2015-08-31T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/nathan-e-lundblad\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:08:14","slug":"nathan-e-lundblad","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/nathan-e-lundblad\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan E. Lundblad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/~nlundbla\/cv-lundblad-external.pdf\">Recent CV (2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PhD (Physics) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pma.caltech.edu\/\">California Institute of Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BA (Physics, Astrophysics) <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.berkeley.edu\/\">University of California<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/astro.berkeley.edu\/\">Berkeley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My research focuses on the physics of matter cooled to just barely above absolute zero, and explores the phenomenon of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate\">Bose-Einstein condensation<\/a>\u00a0(BEC) terrestrially and in microgravity. \u00a0 \u00a0I perform experiments (with students) at Bates and (with collaborators) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/coldatomlab.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0using ultracold atoms trapped in ultrahigh vacuum with magnetic fields and lasers.<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in summer research?\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m always hiring students of all years; please contact me <a href=\"mailto:nlundbla@bates.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via email. \u00a0<\/a>For more information please see my <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/~nlundbla\">laboratory home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":7531,"template":"","class_list":["post-135","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-quantum-physics","expertise-ultracold-atomic-physics","expertise-specific-bose-einstein-condensation","expertise-specific-evaporative-cooling","expertise-specific-laser-cooling","expertise-specific-magnetic-trapping","expertise-specific-optical-lattices","expertise-specific-optical-trapping","expertise-specific-radiofrequency-and-microwave-dressing","expertise-specific-solid-state-analogues","expertise-specific-spin-dependent-potentials","what-i-teach-physics","what-i-teach-specific-electromagnetic-theory","what-i-teach-specific-experimental-physics-and-laboratory-techniques","what-i-teach-specific-general-education-physics","what-i-teach-specific-introductory-physics","what-i-teach-specific-mechanics","what-i-teach-specific-quantum-mechanics","what-i-teach-specific-solid-state-physics","what-i-teach-specific-statistical-mechanics","what-i-teach-specific-thermodynamics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/135\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}