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
Now published as an editors' suggestion in PRA, we present a first study of the influence of the dipole-dipole interaction on the total inter-species interaction in our erbium-dysprosium mixture, in collaboration with M. Modugno from the University of the Basque Country.
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In our new pre-print with collaborators from JILA, Boulder (Co), we accurately determine the scattering length for four bosonic erbium isotopes.
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Our new pre-print with collaborators at ICFO, Barcelona, investigates the topological properties of the bond order wave in the extended Fermi-Hubbard model.
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Group news
Our 2019 paper is chosen as one of PRX's favourite papers from the last 10 years!
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Francesca has been awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for Natural Sciences 2021 last weekend in Vienna for her outstanding achievements in the field of ultracold quantum gases. Her pioneering work with lathanoid atoms has been internationally groundbreaking in this field.
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In recognition of her outstanding achievements, Francesca Ferlaino was elected a Corresponding Member of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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Welcome and goodbye
Welcome to Johanna Hennebichler, who has joined the T-Reqs team for her Master Thesis.
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Max held his defense for his PhD thesis and is now officially a Doctor of Philosophy. He moved to the Medizinische Universität Innsbruck. Congratulations and good luck!
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Farewell to Matthew Norcia who after an incredible two years here is moving back to Boulder (US). We wish you all the best for your next scientific adventure!
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