In this talk, I will address two issues concerning spinor condensates. First, I will show that the non-abelian feature of a synthetic gauge potential can be controlled and probed by…
The development of optical lattices that imprint artificial gauge fields now allows the creation of energy bands for cold atoms with non-trivial topological character, as encoded in a non-zero Chern…
…component: they behave as quantum fluids of light, and show fascinating phenomena like superfluidity, nucleation of topological excitations such as quantized vortices… Patterning of semiconductor microcavities on a micron scale…
This talk will present our on-going effort to control the dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms. In our experiment, we trap individual atoms in two-dimensional arrays of optical tweezers separated…
I will talk about two experiments with which we use our (bosonic) 41K
A gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate composed of atoms with a modest scattering length is the poster child for many-body mean-field theory. In such a case the theory completely and accurately describes…
…quantum features over surprisingly long time scales. Remarkably, certain quantum states yield higher efficiency than allowed by the Carnot bound, yet in full compliance with the second law of thermodynamics….
Entanglement can enhance the coherent interaction of light and matter at a quantum interface, enabling information transfer within future quantum networks. Here, our interface consists of calcium ions trapped within…
…more than 13000 particles. We use this resource and combined this with swapping the squeezing to magnetically sensitive states for demonstration of quantum enhanced magnetometry with high spatial resolution [2]….
…component: they behave as quantum fluids of light, and show fascinating phenomena like superfluidity, nucleation of topological excitations such as quantized vortices… Patterning of semiconductor microcavities on a micron scale…