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Wolfgang Ketterle
John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics
W. Ketterle, S. Karch, S. Bandyopadhyay, Z.-H. Sun, A. Impertro, S. J. Huh, I. P. Rodríguez, J. F. Wienand, M. Heyl, A. Polkovnikov, I. Bloch, M. Aidelsburger
Probing quantum many-body dynamics using subsystem Loschmidt echos
2025
A conveyor-belt magneto-optical trap of CaF
2024
Atomic physics on a 50 nm scale: Realization of a bilayer system of dipolar atoms
2024
Coherent and incoherent light scattering by single-atom wavepackets
2024
In situ imaging of the thermal de Broglie wavelength in an ultracold Bose gas
2024
Observation of spin squeezing with contact interactions in one- and three-dimensional easy-plane magnets
2024
Suppressing dipolar relaxation in thin layers of dysprosium atoms
2024
Suppressing dipolar relaxation in thin layers of dysprosium atoms.
2024
A Feshbach resonance in collisions between triplet ground state molecules
2023
Ab initio calculation of the spectrum of Feshbach resonances in NaLi + Na collisions
2023
Atomic physics on a 50 nm scale: Realization of a bilayer system of dipolar atoms
2023
Bosonic stimulation of atom–light scattering in an ultracold gas
2023
Dynamics of Stripe Patterns in Supersolid Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose Gases
2023
Magnetic trapping of ultracold molecules at high density
2023
I. Dimitrova, Y. K. Lee, H. Lin, J. Amato-Grill, P. Jepsen, W. Ketterle, S. Flannigan, I. Čepaitė, A. Daley
Many-body spin rotation by adiabatic passage in spin-1/2 XXZ chains of ultracold atoms
2023
Raman sideband cooling of molecules in an optical tweezer array to the 3-D motional ground state
2023
Spectrum of Feshbach resonances in NaLi + Na collisions
2023
Spin Dynamics Dominated by Resonant Tunneling into Molecular States
2023
Control of reactive collisions by quantum interference
2022
Dipolar spin-exchange and entanglement between molecules in an optical tweezer array
2022
Y. Bao, S. Yu, L. Anderegg, S. Burchesky, D. Gonzalez-Acevedo, E. Chae, W. Ketterle, K. Ni, J. Doyle
Fast optical transport of ultracold molecules over long distances
2022
Long-lived spin-helix states in Heisenberg quantum magnets
2022
Preparation of the spin-Mott state: A spinful Mott insulator of repulsively bound pairs
2022
Observation of bosonic stimulation in light scattering
2021
Pauli blocking of light scattering in degenerate fermions
2021
Rotational Coherence Times of Polar Molecules in Optical Tweezers
2021
Spin-polarized fermions with p-wave interactions
2021
Transverse Spin Dynamics in the Anisotropic Heisenberg Model Realized with Ultracold Atoms
2021
Adiabatic preparation of entangled, magnetically ordered states with cold bosons in optical lattices
2020
An atomic physics perspective on the kilogram’s new definition
2020
Collisional Cooling of Ultracold Atoms
2020
Dynamics of rotated spin states and magnetic ordering with two-component bosonic atoms in optical lattices.
2020
Enhanced Superexchange in a Tilted Mott Insulator
2020
Enhancing the capture velocity of a Dy magneto-optical trap with two-stage slowing
2020
Exploring emergent heterogeneous
2020
High-precision analysis of Feshbach resonances in a Mott insulator
2020
Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules
2020
Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules
2020
Spin transport in a tunable Heisenberg model realized with ultracold atoms
2020
An Optical Tweezer Array of Ultracold Molecules
2019
An optical tweezer array of ultracold molecules
2019
Floquet Heating in Interacting Atomic Gases with an Oscillating Force
2019
How to dress radio-frequency photons with tunable momentum
2019
Interaction spectroscopy of a two-component Mott insulator
2019
Laser Cooling of Optically Trapped Molecules
2018
W. Ketterle, A. Amico, F. Scazza, G. Valtolina, P. E. S. Tavares, M. Inguscio, G. Roati, M. Zaccanti
Time-Resolved Observation of Competing Attractive and Repulsive Short-Range Correlations in Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
2018
Λ-Enhanced Imaging of Molecules in an Optical Trap
2018
A stripe phase with supersolid properties in spin–orbit-coupled Bose–Einstein condensates
2017
Long-Lived Ultracold Molecules with Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments
2017
E. Chae, L. Anderegg, B.L. Augenbraun, A. Ravi, B. Hemmerling, N. Hutzler, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, A. Collopy, J. Ye
One dimensional magneto-optical compression of a cold CaF molecular beam
2017
L. Anderegg, B.L. Augenbraun, E. Chae, B. Hemmerling, N. Hutzler, A. Ravi, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, A. Collopy, J. Ye
Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density
2017
Twenty years of Atomic Quantum Gases: 1995-2015 in: “Universal Themes of Bose-Einstein Condensation
2017
Coherence Times of Bose-Einstein Condensates beyond the Shot-Noise Limit via Superfluid Shielding
2016
B. Hemmerling, E. Chae, A. Ravi, L. Anderegg, G. Drayna, N. Hutzler, W. Ketterle, J. Doyle, A.L. Collopy, J. Ye
Laser slowing of CaF molecules to near the capture velocity of a molecular MOT
2016
Spin-Orbit Coupling and Spin Textures in Optical Superlattices
2016
Adiabatic cooling of bosons in lattices to magnetic ordering
2015
A distributed, graphical user interface based, computer control system for atomic physics experiments
2013
Cold Collisions of helium and thorium monoxide in the electronic excited H-state
2013
Deviation from Universality in Collisions of Ultracold 6Li2 Molecules
2013
Pauli paramagnetism of an ideal Fermi gas
2013
Spin-orbit effects in cold inelastic collisions of antimony and helium
2013
Vibrational quenching in cold thorium monoxide (X, v=1)-helium collisions
2013
Zeeman relaxation in cold collisions of thorium and helium
2013
Compressibility of an ultracold Fermi gas with repulsive interactions
2012
Formation of Ultracold Fermionic NaLi Feshbach Molecules
2012
Bragg Scattering as a Probe of Atomic Wavefunctions and Quantum Phase Transitions in Optical Lattices
2011
Correlations and Pair Formation in a Repulsively Interacting Fermi Gas
2011
Speckle Imaging of Spin Fluctuations in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
2011
Spin gradient demagnetization cooling of ultracold atoms.
2011
Large spin relaxation rates in trapped submerged-shell atoms
2010
Suppression of Density Fluctuations in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas
2010
Thermometry and Refrigeration in a Two-Component Mott Insulator of Ultracold Atoms.
2010
A Buffer-Gas Cooled Bose-Einstein Condensate
2009
Itinerant ferromagnetism in a Fermi gas of ultracold atoms
2009
Observation of itinerant ferromagnetism in a strongly interacting Fermi gas of ultracold atoms
2009
Spin gradient thermometry of ultracold atoms in optical lattices
2009
Superfluidity in a gas of strongly interacting fermions
2009
Determination of the fermion pair size in a resonantly interacting superfluid
2008
Determination of the Superfluid Gap in Atomic Fermi Gases by Quasiparticle Spectroscopy
2008
Making, probing and understanding ultracold Fermi gases
2008
New forms of matter near absolute zero temperature
2008
Phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with resonant interactions
2008
Realization of a strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixture from a two-component Fermi gas
2008
Trapping of Ultracold Atoms in a Hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fiber
2008
Atom trapping with a thin magnetic film
2007
Critical velocity for superfluid flow across the BEC-BCS crossover
2007
Fermi gases go with the superfluid flow
2007
Ganz groe Fische fangen
2007
Herbert Walther (obituary).
2007
Long Phase Coherence Time and Number Squeezing of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip
2007
Matter-Wave Interferometry with Phase Fluctuating Bose-Einstein Condensates
2007
New forms of quantum matter near absolute zero temperature
2007
New forms of quantum matter near absolute zero temperature
2007
Pairing Without Superfluidity: The Ground State of an Imbalanced Fermi Mixture
2007
Phase Diagram for a Bose-Einstein Condensate Moving in an Optical Lattice
2007
Phase-Sensitive Recombination of Two Bose-Einstein condensates on an Atom Chip
2007
Spin-Exchange Collisions of Submerged Shell Atoms Below 1 Kelvin
2007
Superfluid Expansion of a Rotating Fermi Gas
2007
Tomographic RF Spectroscopy of a Trapped Fermi Gas at Unitarity
2007
Bose-Einstein Condensation: Identity Crisis for Indistinguishable Particles
2006
Comment on Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas
2006
Continuous and Pulsed Quantum Zeno Effect
2006
Direct Observation of the Superfluid Phase Transition in Ultracold Fermi Gases
2006
Evidence for Superfluidity of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice
2006
W. Ketterle, Vitaly. V. Kocharovsky, Vitaly V. Kocharovsky, M. Holthaus, C. H. Raymond Ooi, A. A. Svidzinsky, M. O. Scully
Fluctuations in Ideal and Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates: From the laser phasetransition analogy to squeezed states and Bogoliubov quasiparticles
2006
Low Velocity Quantum Reflection of Bose-Einstein Condensates
2006
Observation of Strong Quantum Depletion in a Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate
2006
Evaporative cooling of metastable helium in the multi-partial-wave regime
2005
High-flux beam source for cold, slow atoms or molecules
2005
Magnetic trapping of an atomic Mn-Cr mixture
2005