Dipolar Quantum Gases of Erbium Atoms
Erbium has very special properties that make it unique: a very strong magnetic moment, many valence electrons, clock transitions, and an extremely rich internal atomic structure.
In the ERBIUM LAB we bring all these properties in the quantum regime together to study strongly dipolar gases both in the continuum and in optical lattices. Recently, the ERBIUM team has observed roton excitations, the counterintuitive and long-sought supersolid states, deformed Fermi surface, Bose-Hubbard systems with long-range interaction, spin manipulation via the clock transition, and much more!
A full list of the ERBIUM LAB Publications can be found here
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Lab news
This year, from 6.-9. September 2016, the third edition of the workshop on 'Long-range interactions in the ultracold', took place in Ercolano (Naples, IT). Since the event was organised by Francesca (together with Antoine Browaeys and Robert Löw), the whole team joined in for the event, rented a Minibus and
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Back in 2009, the Erbium experiment was starting with funding from the Austrian academy of science (through an FWF START-price) and an ERC Starting grant. Since the START price is now expired, the FWF send a Camera team to our lab for a short video.
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MariaWaldrast_groupPic Jan will work with us for a full year on the Erbium experiment as part of his PhD at the University of Heidelberg. After that, he continues his studies in the group of Selim Jochim. Welcome Jan to our group! 🙂
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Giulia Faraoni is currently doing her PhD degree in Florence (Italy) at the LENS institute. To gather additional experience and skills, she will work with us for a full year on the Erbium experiment on dipolar quantum droplets. Welcome to our group!
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ERBIUM NEWS Now in Science! In collaboration with the theory colleagues in Innsbruck (Zoller, Baranov, Cai), we have realized and studied the extended Bose-Hubbard Model with dipolar Er atoms and studied how the superfluid-to-Mott-insulator transition is modified under the influence of the anisotropic and long-range dipole-dipole interaction.
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Lab Team
Francesca Ferlaino, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Group Leader / PI
Manfred Mark, Dr.
Senior Scientist/Research Assistant
Andrea Di Carli, Dr.
Academy Scientist/Research Assistant
Ferdinand Claude, Dr.
Post-Doc
Arfor Houwman, MSc.
PhD Student (ERBIUM)
Louis Lafforgue, MSc.
PhD Student (ERBIUM)
Sarah Embacher, BSc.
Master Student (ERBIUM)