Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases

L Chomaz, I Ferrier-Barbut, F Ferlaino… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the achievement of quantum degeneracy in gases of chromium atoms in 2004, the
experimental investigation of ultracold gases made of highly magnetic atoms has …

Laser cooling for quantum gases

F Schreck, K Druten - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Laser cooling exploits the physics of light scattering to cool atomic and molecular gases to
close to absolute zero. It is the crucial initial step for essentially all atomic gas experiments in …

Long-lived and transient supersolid behaviors in dipolar quantum gases

L Chomaz, D Petter, P Ilzhöfer, G Natale, A Trautmann… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
By combining theory and experiments, we demonstrate that dipolar quantum gases of both
Er 166 and Dy 164 support a state with supersolid properties, where a spontaneous density …

Dipolar quantum mixtures of erbium and dysprosium atoms

A Trautmann, P Ilzhöfer, G Durastante, C Politi… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We report on the first realization of heteronuclear dipolar quantum mixtures of highly
magnetic erbium and dysprosium atoms. With a versatile experimental setup, we …

Developments in atomic control using ultracold magnetic lanthanides

MA Norcia, F Ferlaino - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Lanthanide atoms have an unusual electron configuration, with a partially filled shell of f
orbitals. This leads to a set of characteristic properties, including large numbers of optical …

Phase coherence in out-of-equilibrium supersolid states of ultracold dipolar atoms

P Ilzhöfer, M Sohmen, G Durastante, C Politi… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
A supersolid is a counterintuitive phase of matter that combines the global phase coherence
of a superfluid with a crystal-like self-modulation in space. Recently, such states have been …

Interspecies interactions in an ultracold dipolar mixture

C Politi, A Trautmann, P Ilzhöfer, G Durastante… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the influence of the dipole-dipole
interactions (DDIs) on the total interspecies interaction in an erbium-dysprosium mixture. By …

Feshbach resonances in an erbium-dysprosium dipolar mixture

G Durastante, C Politi, M Sohmen, P Ilzhöfer, MJ Mark… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We report on the observation of heteronuclear magnetic Feshbach resonances in several
isotope mixtures of the highly magnetic elements erbium and dysprosium. Among many …

A ship-in-a-bottle quantum gas microscope setup for magnetic mixtures

M Sohmen, MJ Mark, M Greiner, F Ferlaino - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Quantum gas microscopes are versatile and powerful tools for fundamental science as well
as promising candidates for enticing applications such as in quantum simulation or quantum …

Stability of a Bose-condensed mixture on a bubble trap

A Andriati, L Brito, L Tomio, A Gammal - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Stability and the dynamical behavior of binary Bose-Einstein condensed mixtures trapped
on the surface of a rigid spherical shell are investigated at the mean-field level, exploring the …