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Many-body Quantum Dynamics

Cavendish Laboratory
 

We achieved Bose-Eintein condensation of K39 atoms.

We reached the next important benchmark, Bose-Einstein condensation of potassium-39 atoms. Using the readily accessible Feshbach resonance of this species, we can now tune interatomic interactions from strongly attractive to non-interacting to strongly repulsive. We are looking forward to studying quantum many-body physics in two-dimensional quasicrystal for the first time.

K39 BEC

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Nature: Observing the 2D Bose glass

13 September 2024

Our work on observing the 2D Bose glass in our optical quasicrystal has been published in Nature: Observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal Jr-Chiun Yu, Shaurya Bhave, Lee reeve, Bo Song, Ulrich Schneider Nature 633 , 338–343 (2024). Press release on the Department of Physics Webpage : Physicists...

Individual tunnelling control in optical lattices

9 September 2024

Optical lattices are power quantum simulators with many applications in e.g. strongly-correlated and topological systems. However, up to now, they were limited in programmability since typically all tunnelling links were of the same strength. In this new paper, we show theoretically how local control over individual...

Cold atoms and molecules for fundamental physics Conference

1 August 2024

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting 85 scientists for our ICAP satellite conference on Cold Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Physics in Cambridge. Many thanks to all the speakers, poster presenters and participants for 3 days of inspiring discussions! Cold atoms and molecules for fundamental physics - ICAP satellite

IOP Joseph Thomson Medal

22 December 2023

Professor Ulrich Schneider received the IOP 2023 Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize for groundbreaking experiments on the collective dynamics of quantum gases in optical lattices, including fundamental studies of localization effects in both disordered and quasicrystalline systems. More information at: https://www.iop.org/...