Potassium condensates in optical tweezers

We present progress on the construction of a potassium based neutral cold atom machine which will combine the high precision spatial control of optical tweezers with the creation of degenerate quantum gasses. The experiment aims to condition the coherent Raman transfer of spin population in small Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) on the presence of Rydberg excitations, and leverages polarization contrast imaging to non-destructively image the BECs. With these capabilities we aim to explore fundamental new directions in thermodynamics, monitored dynamics, and quantum interactive dynamics. We also present progress on a measurement of a magic trapping wavelength for Potassium 39 near 1227 nm.