ITAMP Workshop
May 10-12. 2023 – Unravelling quantum many-body physic with long-range interacting platforms
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.
TIQIT 2023
The Trento-Innsbruck Quantum Information Tour will take place from the 27th of February to the 2nd of March in Trento and Innsbruck.
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
In the T-REQS lab we have now loaded our first atoms into optical tweezers! This is an significant step towards our goal of producing arrays of single atoms within tweezers which we will use to study the interactions of Rydberg atoms.
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Now published in Phys. Rev. A together from researchers from the University of Hanover, we investigate supersolidity in binary dipolar gases.
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Now published in Nature Physics, we have observed the first vortices in a dipolar quantum gas! The dipolar interaction brings forth a plethora of new physics to vortices, that we begin to investigate finding the coveted stripe vortex lattice!
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Group news
Joint grant between TU Wien and Innsbruck investigating quantum simulators has been funded!
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Gabriele, PhD candidate in our Erbium Lab, won the best poster prize at the EMMI Workshop on Long-Range Ultracold Interactions!
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Welcome and goodbye
Welcome back to Daniel Grün, who is joining the T-Reqs Lab after spending almost a year in Edmonton (Canada) working with an optical-tweezers setup.
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Welcome to Laura Uiberreiter, who is joining the administration team.
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Goodbye to Juan Recoaro, who is leaving the T-Reqs lab after his Masters' internship.
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