Phantom energy paper in Science
We observe a novel quantum many-body phenominon in quench compressed scar states. Published in Science.
Dysprosium news
Rapidity of 1D dipolar gas
We report the first measurements of the rapidity and momentum distributions of equilibrium dipolar 1D gases.
Video of Lev's VAMOS seminar talk
Watch here for Prof. Benjamin Lev's VAMOS seminar talk on "Topological pumping of a 1D dipolar gas into strongly correlated prethermal states." This work was repored in Science.
Quantum Archimedes' Screw published in Science
LevLab has created a quantum Archimedes' screw. See paper published in Science From Stanford News article By adding some magnetic flair to an exotic quantum experiment, Benjamin Lev's group produced an…
Pairing atoms in 1D with photons
New theory paper in PRL shows how to use photon-mediated interactions in a multimode optical cavity to induces a peierls transition in a 1D Bose or Fermi gas. The transition is to a paired state that creates a…
Quantum many-body scars
We have created novel quantum many-body scar states by topologically pumping a 1D dipolar Bose gas of dysprosium. Wow quantum holonomy!
Playing with a quantum toy
Toy inspires experiment on behavior of quantum systems in Stanford News.
Congrats Dr. Yijun Tang!
Congratulations to Dr. Yijun Tang, our newest Ph.D.!
Dipolar Quantum Newton's Cradle
Published in Phys. Rev X. New work on thermalization in near-integrable system. See popular press: Editors' Choice Watching magnetic atoms thermalize in Science News: Quantum Physics A tiny version of this…
Dipolar Quantum Newton's Cradle
New work on thermalization in near-integrable system.
Dy tune-out wavelength
Anisotropic Dy tune-out wavelength. Published in Optics Express.
Smashing magnets
Collisions of Dy BECs yield halos of dipolar scattered atoms. See movie made by Andrew Sykes. See also Perspective "Smashing Magnets" by Igor Ferrier-Barbut. Published in New Journal of Physics.
Thermometry of dipolar Bose gas
Anisotropic expansion of thermal dipolar Bose gas. P RL
Congrats Nate!
Congratulations Nate Burdick, PhD!
Viewpoint: An Arrested Implosion
APS Physics Viewpoint on quantum flucuations in imploding dipolar condensates.
Dy spin-orbit-coupling
We created the first spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Fermi gas with Dy! Read about it in PRX here.
Dy scattering lengths
Scattering lengths for 162 Dy and 164 Dy have now been measured.
New Dy BECs!
We report Bose-Einstein condensation of two isotopes of the highly magnetic element dysprosium: 162Dy and 160Dy. For 162Dy, condensates with 10^5 atoms form below T = 50 nK. We find the evaporation efficiency…
Fermionic suppression
We observe the suppression of inelastic dipolar scattering due to Fermi statistics in ultracold gases of the highly magnetic atom, dysprosium. Inelastic dipolar scattering in non-zero magnetic fields leads to…
Congratulations Dr. Lu!
Congratulations to Mingwu! Dr. Mingwu Lu defended his thesis June 2014 and is now a postdoc with Prof. Jeff Kimble at Caltech.
Dy Feshbach resonances
We report in this Phys. Rev. A Rapid paper ( arXiv ) the observation of resonance-like loss in the trap population of ultracold dysprosium as a function of magnetic field, which we attribute to…
Dy SO-coupling proposal
Lev and theory collaborators publish paper in PRA Rapid Communications on creating synthetic gauge fields with Dy.
World's first dipolar Dy DFG
PRL announcing world's first dipolar Dy DFG selected as Editors' Suggestion, and featured in Physics Viewpoint.
World's First Dy BEC
World's first Dy BEC!
Dy ODT theory paper
Paper on Dy optical dipole trapping at magic wavelengths published in PRA
Dy narrow-line spectroscopy
Paper on Dy narrow-line spectroscopy published in PRA.
Two Dy PRAs
Two dysprosium papers published in PRA fall 2010. Papers detail Dy MOT physics and a novel sub-Doppler laser cooling mechanism in Dy.
Dy MOT PRL
Dy MOT and magnetic trap collisions paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Research highlight in Nature, and popular science article in Physics World.
World's First Dy MOT
Announcing the world's first Dysprosium magneto-optical trap (MOT)! News bulletin