2025 Group Openings!

2025 Group Openings!

We are happy to announce that our dipolar quantum gas group has an Academy Scientist + Postdoc and PhD positions open for 2025!

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 Theory Group aimed at studying and predicting dipolar phenomena in dipolar 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

Our publication on the first-time observation of roton quasiparticles in quantum gases was chosen by the editors of Nature Physics as one of their favorite papers of the past 15 years. To mark the anniversary of the journal, the most important works in the various disciplines of physics are presented.
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A key step in creating controlled interactions in dipolar quantum mixtures is the characterization of interspecies Feshbach resonances.
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Congratulation to Lauriane Chomaz on the publication of her paper in Phys. Rev. A. In this work, Lauriane investigates the general relationships existing between the density contrast, the superfluid fraction, and the response to a high-energy scattering probe of density-modulated states within a classical-field approach.
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Group news

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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Louis Lafforgue successfully defends his Masters' thesis!
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Welcome and goodbye

Welcome to Arfor, who has joined the Erbium team as PhD Student.
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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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Welcome to Nefeli Ioli Sonnberger, who has joined the Er-Dy team for her master thesis.
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