Introductory Course on Ultracold Quantum Gases 2023
9-12.06.2023, Innsbruck. Our course will give a basic introduction into the fascinating research field of cold atoms and ultracold quantum gases, which offers many exciting opportunities for young researchers.
Summer 2023: Aurora Excellence Fellowship Program
Open call: The Aurora Excellence Fellowship Program for Visiting Bachelor, Master and PhD Students is now accepting applications.
Cluster of Excellence Quantum Science Austria granted
Three Clusters of Excellence in Innsbruck have been funded! With highly endowed clusters of excellence, the Austrian Science Fund FWF creates Austrian flagships of basic research. The University of Innsbruck will coordinate the Cluster of Excellence for Quantum Sciences.
Atoms in Tweezers
In the T-REQS lab we have now loaded atoms in our optical tweezers.
Vortices in a dysprosium gas
By stirring the magnetic field which polarizes the atoms in a dysprosium condensate, we were able to generate vortices–tiny quantum tornadoes–in a dipolar gas for the first time!
Bloch Oscillations
By letting an erbium quantum droplet fall under gravity through an optical lattice, it is possible to understand the inter-atomic interactions and quantum fluctuations through variations of the Bloch oscillation.
ERC Advanced Grant DymetEr has been funded!
Happy 10th Birthday to the first Erbium BEC!
Phase coherence in out-of-equilibrium supersolid states of ultracold dipolar atoms
By quenching the contact interaction, it is possible to destroy the phase coherence in a dipolar supersolid. However, the supersolidity is “repaired” when reversing the dephasing process.
3D array of large-spin fermions
In joint theoretical and experimental work with our theory colleagues A.-M. Rey (JILA) and B. Zhu (ITAMP) we investigate dipolar induced magnetization-conserving spin exchange dynamics with fermionic Er in a 3D optical lattice
Our group studies dipolar quantum gases made of Erbium (Er) and Dysprosium (Dy) atoms. These extraordinarily magnetic species are a powerful new resource for reaching quantum simulation with strong connectivity, in which each atom is coupled to the other over long distances, and exploring exotic phases of matter that have no classical counterpart.
We have three labs: the ERBIUM LAB, where Er was Bose condensed for the first time ever, the Er-Dy LAB which studies quantum dipolar mixtures under a quantum-gas microscope, and the T-Reqs LAB, where we trap Er atoms in arrays of optical tweezers for Rydberg physics. Recently, we have established a theoretical subdivision aimed at studying and predicting dipolar phenomena in dipoalr quantum gases and mixtures.
The group, led by Francesca Ferlaino, is jointly located at the Institute for Experimental Physics (IExP) of the University of Innsbruck and at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and it is part of the Innsbruck Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases.
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News from the labs
Now published! Together with Thomas Pohl and others from Aarhus University we explore the role of temperature has on the supersolid formation, matching beautifully with our Er-Dy lab results!
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In this pre-print, together with Dr. Giacomo Lamporesi at the University of Trento, we investigate more thoroughly the conditions required to generate vortices through magnetostirring, focussing on the currently experimentally accessible regime.
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We investigate the possibility of supersolidity in a binary anti-dipolar condensate!
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Group news
OPEN CALL - The Aurora Excellence Fellowship Program for Visiting Bachelor, Master and PhD Students is now accepting applications.
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Three Clusters of Excellence in Innsbruck have been funded! With highly endowed clusters of excellence, the Austrian Science Fund FWF creates Austrian flagships of basic research. The University of Innsbruck will coordinate the Cluster of Excellence for Quantum Sciences.
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The position of a 1-year Postdoctoral Researcher is now open to applications. The successful candidate will join Dr. Thomas Bland and Prof. Francesca Ferlaino at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The work concerns the question: “How ‘solid’ is a dipolar supersolid?”
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Welcome and goodbye
Welcome to Andrea Di carli, who has joined the Dipolar team as Academy Scientist. Andrea joined us from the group of Prof. S. Kuhr at University of Strathclyde.
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Welcome to Ferdinand Claude in the ERBIUM team! He has joined us as a postdoc from LKB to bring his knowledge on quatum fluid of light to quantum fluid of atoms.
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Welcome to Clemens Ulm, who has joined the Er-Dy team for his PhD. During his master study at the University of Strathclyde, Clemens has acquired a great knowledge on quantum-gas microscopes working in the group of Stefan Kuhr and Elmar Haller.
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