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 …

New states of matter with fine-tuned interactions: quantum droplets and dipolar supersolids

F Böttcher, JN Schmidt, J Hertkorn… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum fluctuations can stabilize Bose–Einstein condensates (BEC) against the mean-
field collapse. Stabilization of the condensate has been observed in quantum degenerate …

Long-lived and transient supersolid behaviors in dipolar quantum gases

L Chomaz, D Petter, P Ilzhöfer, G Natale, A Trautmann… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
By combining theory and experiments, we demonstrate that dipolar quantum gases of both
Er 166 and Dy 164 support a state with supersolid properties, where a spontaneous density …

Observation of a dipolar quantum gas with metastable supersolid properties

L Tanzi, E Lucioni, F Famà, J Catani, A Fioretti… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
The competition of dipole-dipole and contact interactions leads to exciting new physics in
dipolar gases, well illustrated by the recent observation of quantum droplets and rotons in …

Quantum liquid droplets in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates

CR Cabrera, L Tanzi, J Sanz, B Naylor, P Thomas… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Quantum droplets are small clusters of atoms self-bound by the balance of attractive and
repulsive forces. Here, we report on the observation of droplets solely stabilized by contact …

Self-bound quantum droplets of atomic mixtures in free space

G Semeghini, G Ferioli, L Masi, C Mazzinghi… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Self-bound quantum droplets are a newly discovered phase in the context of ultracold
atoms. In this Letter, we report their experimental realization following the original proposal …

Transient supersolid properties in an array of dipolar quantum droplets

F Böttcher, JN Schmidt, M Wenzel, J Hertkorn, M Guo… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We study theoretically and experimentally the emergence of supersolid properties in a
dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate. The theory reveals a ground state phase diagram with …

Observation of quantum droplets in a heteronuclear bosonic mixture

C D'Errico, A Burchianti, M Prevedelli, L Salasnich… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We report on the formation of heteronuclear quantum droplets in an attractive bosonic
mixture of K 41 and Rb 87. We observe long-lived self-bound states, both in free space and …

A new form of liquid matter: Quantum droplets

ZH Luo, W Pang, B Liu, YY Li, BA Malomed - Frontiers of Physics, 2021 - Springer
This brief review summarizes recent theoretical and experimental results which predict and
establish the existence of quantum droplets (QDs), ie, robust two-and three-dimensional (2D …

Excitation spectrum of a trapped dipolar supersolid and its experimental evidence

G Natale, RMW van Bijnen, A Patscheider, D Petter… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We study the spectrum of elementary excitations of a dipolar Bose gas in a three-
dimensional anisotropic trap across the superfluid-supersolid phase transition. Theoretically …