Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases

L Chomaz, I Ferrier-Barbut, F Ferlaino… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the achievement of quantum degeneracy in gases of chromium atoms in 2004, the
experimental investigation of ultracold gases made of highly magnetic atoms has …

Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases

A Recati, S Stringari - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Can a gas behave like a crystal? Supersolidity is an intriguing and challenging state of
matter that combines key features of superfluids and crystals. Predicted a long time ago, its …

Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid

E Casotti, E Poli, L Klaus, A Litvinov, C Ulm, C Politi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Supersolids are states of matter that spontaneously break two continuous symmetries:
translational invariance owing to the appearance of a crystal structure and phase invariance …

Developments in atomic control using ultracold magnetic lanthanides

MA Norcia, F Ferlaino - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Lanthanide atoms have an unusual electron configuration, with a partially filled shell of f
orbitals. This leads to a set of characteristic properties, including large numbers of optical …

Dimensional crossover in the superfluid-supersolid quantum phase transition

G Biagioni, N Antolini, A Alaña, M Modugno, A Fioretti… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Supersolids are a fundamental quantum phase of matter where the global phase and
translational symmetries are spontaneously broken. The recently discovered supersolidity in …

Supersolidity and crystallization of a dipolar Bose gas in an infinite tube

JC Smith, D Baillie, PB Blakie - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We calculate the ground states of a dipolar Bose gas confined in an infinite tube potential.
We use the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation theory and present a numerical method to …

Long-lifetime supersolid in a two-component dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

S Li, UN Le, H Saito - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Recent studies on supersolidity in a single-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
have relied on the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction for stabilization of self-bound droplets …

Glitches in rotating supersolids

E Poli, T Bland, SJM White, MJ Mark, F Ferlaino… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Glitches, spin-up events in neutron stars, are of prime interest, as they reveal properties of
nuclear matter at subnuclear densities. We numerically investigate the glitch mechanism …

Maintaining supersolidity in one and two dimensions

E Poli, T Bland, C Politi, L Klaus, MA Norcia, F Ferlaino… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate supersolidity in three-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein
condensates. We focus on the role of trap geometry in determining the dimensionality of the …

Two-dimensional supersolidity in a planar dipolar Bose gas

BTE Ripley, D Baillie, PB Blakie - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We investigate the crystalline stationary states of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in a
planar trapping geometry. Our focus is on the ground-state phase diagram in the …