LL’s Short Profile

Louis was born in March 1998 in Rouen, France. He started his studies in 2016 in preparatory classes.
In 2018 he integrated the engineering school of “Mines de Saint-Etienne”. For his last year of studies,
he decided to deeper his knowledge in quantum physics and came for a Master in Innsbruck. He got in touch with ultracold dipolar atoms during an internship in the Erbium lab of Francesca Ferlaino, where he continued with his master’s thesis on Bloch oscillations with Erbium. After graduating in September 2022, he took a few months off and started his PhD in the Erbium lab in January 2023.

LL’s CV at Glance

January 2023 – Present PhD Student in the ERBIUM team
2020 – 2022 Innsbruck University, Master’s degree in physics
2018 – 2022 School of Mines of St-Etienne, French engineering degree in physics

 

LL’s Publications

2026
[4]Topology meets superconductivity in a one-dimensional t-J model of magnetic atoms,
L. Bellinato Giacomelli, T. Bland, L. Lafforgue, F. Ferlaino, M. J. Mark, L. Barbiero,
Nature Communications, 2026. [more] [pdf] [doi] [arXiv]
2025
[3]Observation of Fano-suppression in scattering resonances of bosonic erbium atoms,
L. Lafforgue, N. P. Mehta, J. J. A. Houwman, F. Claude, S. T. Rittenhouse, F. Ferlaino, M. J. Mark,
2025. [more] [pdf] [arXiv]
2024
[2]Optical Manipulation of Spin States in Ultracold Magnetic Atoms via an Inner-Shell Hz Transition,
F. Claude, L. Lafforgue, J. J. A. Houwman, M. J. Mark, F. Ferlaino,
Phys. Rev. Res., 6, L042016, 2024. [more] [pdf] [doi] [arXiv]
2022
[1]Bloch oscillations and matter-wave localization of a dipolar quantum gas in a one-dimensional lattice,
G. Natale, T. Bland, S. Gschwendtner, L. Lafforgue, D. S. Grun, A. Patscheider, M. J. Mark, F. Ferlaino,
Commun. Phys., 5, 227, 2022. [more] [pdf] [doi] [arXiv]

Conferences, Schools & Workshops

February 2026 Quantum Optics C0nference Obergurgl 2026, Obergurgl (AT) Poster
June 2025 29th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics, Vilnius (LT) Talk
July 2024 EGAS 55, Granada (ES) Talk
September 2024 IQOQI 20 years, Innsbruck (AT) Poster
September 2023 Long range workshop, San Sebastian (ES) Poster
September 2023 DK-ALM Summer School, Münsing (DE) Poster
June 2022 Maqs meeting, Paris (FR)  
April 2022 Young Atom Optician conference, Stuttgart (DE) Talk
February 2022 Winter school: Introductory course on ultracold quantum gases, Innsbruck (AT)