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Launch of Atom*innen: online platform to empower and support women in physics

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Photo credit: ÖAW/Elia Zilberberg

Atom*innen, the brainchild of group leader Francesca Ferlaino, grew from the need for an online, user-interactive platform for women in (quantum) physics. Today, the project has taken form, with the aim of providing a focal point to:

  • inform with data on gender equality in physics to understand where we stand and what still has to be done,
  • support women with the information about fundings, prizes, associations, job offers etc,
  • empower women and girls by featuring role models and,
  • connect women in physics.

We are delighted to announce the launch of atom*innen: Networking for women in physics on the International Day for Quantum Physics (14th of April 2024). Why that date? Because we want people to understand that gender equality is everyone’s fight.  The in-person launch event took place in Wien on the 11th of April 2024, attended by the Federal Minister for Women, Family, Youth and Integration Susanne Raab.

You can learn more about Atom*innen here, and you can read the UIBK press release here.

ATOM*INNEN HOST INSTITUTIONS

             

ATOM*INNEN COLLABORATIONS

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NewScientist Feature: Quantum ‘supersolid’ matter stirred using magnets!

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Our latest research on the observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid has been featured in NewScientist! You can read the article,  ‘Quantum ‘supersolid’ matter stirred using magnets‘, here.

For a general overview of this paper and its connection to our previous research, see our writeup here.

For all the details, see the pre-print here: arXiv:2403.18510.

Aurora Fellowship 2024: Application deadline extended to April 14th!

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The application deadline for the 2024 Aurora Fellowship has been extended to April 14th! The Aurora excellence fellowship program for visiting Master and PhD students is an internship to enhance scientific collaboration and exchange in the fast-developing field of quantum science and technology between three of the nine universities that build up the Aurora European Universities Alliance.  You can find more information about the program and the application here.

 

Contact information: AuroraQfellowship@uibk.ac.at

 

 

Vortices in a dipolar supersolid

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In an internal collaboration between the Er-Dy Lab and the Theory subgroup, our new pre-print reveals a fundamental difference in vortex nucleation between the unmodulated superfluid and the modulated 2D supersolid phase of dipolar BECs. This work builds on our previous investigation of vortices in dipolar gases (see our writeups here and here) and of supersolids with two-dimensional crystalline order (see our writeup here). This opens the door to study the hydrodynamic properties of exotic quantum systems with multiple spontaneously broken symmetries, ranging from quantum crystals to neutron stars — for a general overview of the connection between glitches in the supersolid and neutron stars, see our writeup here.

See the pre-print here: arXiv:2403.18510.

Der Suprafestkörper: a popular science article on the dipolar supersolid!

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imageIf you have been searching for a high-level overview of the dipolar supersolid phase, look no further than this open access article by Prof. Francesca Ferlaino and Dr. Manfred Mark! Newly published in the journal “Physik in unserer Zeit”, this German language primer lays out the historical background, newly discovered properties and open questions which remain about this paradoxical quantum phase. See the full article below:

Ferlaino, F. and Mark, M.J. (2024), Der Suprafestkörper. Phys. Unserer Zeit. https://doi.org/10.1002/piuz.202301692

Goodbye to Simon

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Goodbye and congratulations to Simon Gschwendtner for defending his master thesis on the 5th of April 2024! Simon was a part of the Erbium lab and also did some theoretical work for his thesis, “Bloch oscillations in a dipolar quantum gas and setup of a 631nm laser system for spin manipulation of erbium atoms” supervised by Dr. Manfred Mark. Congratulations on officially being a Master of Science!

 

 Thesis defense of Simon G

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