Double species Bose-Einstein condensate with tunable interspecies interactions

G Thalhammer, G Barontini, L De Sarlo, J Catani… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
We produce Bose-Einstein condensates of two different species, Rb 87 and K 41, in an
optical dipole trap in proximity of interspecies Feshbach resonances. We discover and …

An experimental approach for investigating many-body phenomena in Rydberg-interacting quantum systems

CS Hofmann, G Günter, H Schempp, NLM Müller… - Frontiers of …, 2014 - Springer
Recent developments in the study of ultracold Rydberg gases demand an advanced level of
experimental sophistication, in which high atomic and optical densities must be combined …

Degenerate Bose-Bose mixture in a three-dimensional optical lattice

J Catani, L De Sarlo, G Barontini, F Minardi… - Physical Review A …, 2008 - APS
We produce a heteronuclear quantum degenerate mixture of two bosonic species, Rb 87
and K 41, in a three-dimensional optical lattice. On raising the lattice barriers, we observe …

Real-space detection and manipulation of topological edge modes with ultracold atoms

C Braun, R Saint-Jalm, A Hesse, J Arceri, I Bloch… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The bulk–boundary correspondence, a fundamental principle relating the topological
invariants of the bulk to the presence of edge states, is modified in periodically driven …

Λ-enhanced grey molasses on the D2 transition of Rubidium-87 atoms

S Rosi, A Burchianti, S Conclave, DS Naik, G Roati… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Laser cooling based on dark states, ie states decoupled from light, has proven to be effective
to increase the phase-space density of cold trapped atoms. Dark-states cooling requires …

High-flux two-dimensional magneto-optical-trap source for cold lithium atoms

TG Tiecke, SD Gensemer, A Ludewig… - Physical Review A …, 2009 - APS
We demonstrate a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D MOT) as a beam source for
cold L 6 i atoms. The source is side loaded from an oven operated at temperatures in the …

Rydberg-atom-based single-photon detection for haloscope axion searches

E Graham, S Ghosh, Y Zhu, X Bai, SB Cahn, E Durcan… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We propose a Rydberg-atom-based single-photon detector for signal readout in dark matter
haloscope experiments between 40 μ eV and 200 μ eV (10 GHz and 50 GHz). At these …

High-flux source system for matter-wave interferometry exploiting tunable interactions

A Herbst, T Estrampes, H Albers, V Vollenkemper… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Atom interferometers allow determining inertial effects to high accuracy. Quantum-projection
noise as well as systematic effects impose demands on large atomic flux as well as ultralow …

Two-dimensional magneto-optical trap as a source for cold strontium atoms

I Nosske, L Couturier, F Hu, C Tan, C Qiao, J Blume… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We report on the realization of a transversely loaded two-dimensional magneto-optical trap
serving as a source for cold strontium atoms. We analyze the dependence of the source's …

[HTML][HTML] A dark-line two-dimensional magneto-optical trap of 85Rb atoms with high optical depth

S Zhang, JF Chen, C Liu, S Zhou, MMT Loy… - Review of Scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We describe the apparatus of a dark-line two-dimensional (2D) magneto-optical trap (MOT)
of 85 Rb cold atoms with high optical depth (OD). Different from the conventional …