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Quasicrystal Paper covered in Physics World

9 April 2019

Our recent PRL on the connection between our 2D Quasicrystal and a 4D periodic crystal has been covered in Physics World.

$The eight beams forming the optical quasicrystal are realized using four beams and four retro mirrors. Bottom: A time-of-flight picture showing the different discrete diffraction peaks and their fractal structure. For longer pulse times, more and more pe$

Quasicrystal Paper published in PRL

20 March 2019

The first experimental result from the Quasicrystal lab, showing the fractal nature of the potential as well as the connection to a 4D crystal, has now been published as an Editor's suggestion in PRL.

Postdoc positions open - optical lattices

4 March 2019

Two Postdoc positions available to work on experimental many-body quantum dynamics using ultracold atomic gases and optical lattices. Application closes on 31/3/19.

Quantum Walk on fractal

5 July 2018

The first result from our brand-new setup on optical Quasicrystals is on the Arxiv.

K39 BEC

16 May 2018

We achieved Bose-Eintein condensation of K39 atoms.

Lecture course on Quantum Simulations

19 January 2018

Today our new lecture course on Quantum Simulations starts in Cambridge for the first time

Slow Dynamics near the Many-Body Localization Transition

30 December 2017

We could observe the (critical) slowing down of the relaxation dynamics close to the MBL transition and our results were now published in PRL (1D) and PRX (2D).

Floquet Heating in PRL

17 November 2017

Our latest work on Interaction Dependent Heating and Atom Loss in a Periodically Driven Optical Lattice has been published as an Editor's suggestion in PRL

Proceeding on MBL published by Royal Society

9 November 2017

The proceedings of our Royal Society meeting on the Breakdown of ergodicity in quantum systems has been published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and contains many excellent reviews on various aspects of Many-body localization (MBL).

First BEC

24 April 2017

We achieved Bose-Einstein condensation of Rb87 atoms.

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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/...

Postdoc Positions available

1 July 2023

We have two experimental postdoc opportunities on many-body physics in Optical Quasicrystals and on being part of the UK Quantum Technology Hub and developing optical optical-lattice and tweezer-based Quantum Simulators . More information at: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41624/ Applications close on 15/8/23.

Observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal

2 March 2023

Our latest work on observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in our optical quasicrystal is now on the Arxiv: Arxiv:2303.00737 . We could not only observe the Bose glass and the phase transition between Bose glass and superfluid, but could furthermore experimentally establish the non-ergodic character of the Bose glass...

Hubbard Models for Quasicrystalline Potentials

13 October 2022

Our latest work on creating Hubbard Models for Quasicrystalline Potentials is now on the Arxiv (2210.05691). In it, we present a numerical method for constructing the Hubbard Hamiltonian of non-periodic potentials without making use of Bloch's theorem, and then apply it to the eightfold rotationally symmetric 2D optical...

AION Vacuum system arrived

4 July 2022

The AION experiment reached an important first milestone with the UHV vacuum chamber having been delivered. Next stop: laser cooled Strontium. aion_uhv_chamber.jpg

Quasicrystal Paper covered in Physics World

Quasicrystal Paper published in PRL

Postdoc positions open - optical lattices

Quantum Walk on fractal

K39 BEC

Lecture course on Quantum Simulations

Slow Dynamics near the Many-Body Localization Transition

Floquet Heating in PRL

Proceeding on MBL published by Royal Society

First BEC

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