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
In a new pre-print, we investigate the extent that angular oscillations of a dipolar supersolid can tell us about the superfluidity of the system. Extending previous studies of linear droplet arrays, to crystals of two-dimensional structure.
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We have produced our first ultracold atomic cloud of erbium atoms in our new T-REQS lab!
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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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Group news
Benedict has successful completed his master project in the T-Reqs experiments on “Optimisation of a spin-flip Zeeman slower and laser locking to a broad spectral line”. Congratulation, Benedict!
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On July 23th, the Erbium Team was hiking to the Meissner Haus near Innsbruck to get together for a discussion day.
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Matt has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Erwin Schrödinger Center for Quantum Science and Technology (ESQ). As an ESQ postdoc, Matt will study dipolar quantum mixtures of erbium and dysprosium atoms in the RARE lab of Francesca Ferlaino.
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Welcome and goodbye
Farwell to Daniel Grün who is moving to the University of Alberta as PhD Student in the group of Lindsay J LeBlanc. We wish you all the best for your next adventure in physics.
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After 5 productive years in the Dipolar Quantum Gas Group, Arno Trautmann is moving to the University of Tübingen as post-doc in the group of Professor Christian Groß. We wish you great success in your next adventure in physics
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