The Dipolar Quantum Gas Group is one of the three teams composing the Innsbruck Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases. We focus on highly magnetic Lanthanide atoms, Erbium and Dysprosium, which are a novel and powerful resource for realizing dipolar quantum matter.
The group, led by Francesca Ferlaino, is 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.
We have three experimental apparatuses. The ERBIUM machine operates on Er atoms and produced the first Er Bose-Einstein condensate and degenerate Fermi gas. The ER-DY machine is studying degenerate mixtures of two different lanthanides: Er and Dy. The T-Reqs is currently under construction and aims at studying Rydberg states of Er. A new theory sub-division within our group is under development.
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News from the labs
We have observed the first vortices in a dipolar quantum gas!
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Now published in Physical Review A with collaborators from JILA, Boulder (Co), we accurately determine the scattering length for four bosonic erbium isotopes.
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Our paper on supersolid formation in 2D is now published in PRL!
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Group news
Registration is now open for the Long-range interactions in the ultracold 2022. The three -day conference is fully in presence and will take place 06-09 September in Innsbruck, Austria.
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Francesca Ferlaino, professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and scientific director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences receives an ERC Advanced Grant, the highest European funding for established scientists in basic research.
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On the International Women's Day March 8, 2012 a team led by Francesca Ferlaino created the very first BEC from highly-magnetic erbium atoms in their lab at the University of Innsbruck.
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Welcome and goodbye
Welcome to Juan Recoaro, who is joining T-Reqs lab for his Masters' internship.
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Welcome to Antonio Ortu, who is joining the T-REQS lab as a postdoc.
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Welcome to Théo Mezieres, who is joining Eribum lab for his Masters' internship.
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