Ultracold Physics Updates

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Nature Communications is recruiting an Editor with a PhD in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. This role can be based in New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Beijing, Nanjing or Shanghai. If you're interested, drop me a private message 📨

“…we report an experimental observation of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a degenerate Fermi gas in the cavity after quenching the pump strength over a superradiant quantum phase transition…” Original paper: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

“.. we demonstrate dipolar spin-exchange interactions between single calcium monofluoride (CaF) molecules trapped in an optical tweezer… we obtained a Bell state fidelity of 0.89(6)…” Original paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

“..Using the electric dipolar interaction between pairs of molecules prepared by using a reconfigurable optical tweezer array, we deterministically created Bell pairs of molecules..” Original paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

“.. Here, the quantum information is encoded in either of the three qubit manifolds and can be shuttled between them… we realize a nondestructive state detection for 171-Yb, incorporating global control and local feed-forward operations..” Paper: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

“.. This work establishes a clear methodology for designing and verifying error-robust control solutions for atom interferometers, and opens a novel pathway towards ruggedized cold-atom sensors for deployment in real-world environments…” Original paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

“..we report…the first simultaneous production of a dual-species BEC in space… We have further achieved the first spaceborne demonstration of simultaneous atom interferometry with two atomic species…” Original paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

“… we have demonstrated single-atom trapping and high-fidelity imaging of Dy on the intercombination line in tweezers rendered magic by fine tuning the tweezer polarization…” Original paper: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

“…Our results confirm two predictions of Landau’s Fermi-liquid theory: the shift in polaron energy due to mediated interactions, which is linear in the concentration of impurities; and its sign inversion with impurity quantum statistics…” Nature Physics: doi.org/10.1038/s41567…

Job Alert! I am hiring a PDRA to work on a new K-Rb quantum-mixture experiment exploring vortex dynamics in binary superfluids @EQOP @PhysicsStrath. See bit.ly/QuantumFluidsP… or contact me @drlabgnome for more details. Please share!

The @OxfordPhysics & @unihh team published in @ScienceMagazine. We quench 2D Bose gases across the BKT transition and probe the relaxation dynamics with matter-wave interferometry; we found that the scaling behaviour is consistent with real-time RG theory. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

“…Trapping a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical lattice, researchers confirm a 53-year-old theory that connects BECs to superfluids and supersolids…” SYNOPSIS: physics.aps.org/articles/v16/s… ORIGINAL PAPER: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

“….This work establishes metastable 171-Yb as a promising platform for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computing.” Nature - High-fidelity gates and mid-circuit erasure conversion in an atomic qubit doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

“Can a gas behave like a crystal?…” Nature Reviews Physics - Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases doi.org/10.1038/s42254…

Nature - A quantum engine in the BEC–BCS crossover doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

Phys. Rev. A - Matter-wave analog of a fiber-optic gyroscope journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/1…

My lab at @Bates has an open postdoc position! We're a unique ultracold atomic physics group at a research-active undergraduate institution in Maine: opportunities to work with @NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory on @Space_Station as well as with a BEC facility at Bates.

Pioneering experiments on molecular cavity QuantumElectro Dynamics (mcQED) in Jean-Philippe Brantut’s lab @epflSB phys.org/news/2021-08-s…