Ytterbium Gray Live

Ytterbium Gray is a cold atom loading arcade game. Drag the detuning and gradient gauges to hold your magneto-optical trap inside the capture band while atoms stream in from the beam. Push the detuning too far and atoms are kicked out of the chamber. Crank the gradient too high and the trap heats the cloud until trapped atoms boil away. Trapped atoms randomly go dark. Tap REPUMP while detuning sits in the lower half of the band to bring them back before they decay. When the clock runs out, the lattice transfer window opens: hold both gauges inside the tighter zone to snap atoms into lattice sites one by one. Your star rating comes from loaded atom count and final cloud temperature. Later chambers leak faster through background gas collisions and give you shorter windows. Earn coins to install six permanent lab upgrades: Zeeman slower, repump laser, low-noise coils, narrow laser, cryo vacuum, and lattice amplifier. All sound effects are synthesized live on your device.