Zitterbewegung featured as a NJP “Highlight of 2013”
Lindsay LeBlanc et al‘s result demonstrating Zitterbewegung in a spin-orbit coupled atomic Bose gas has been featured …
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Group News
Synthetic gauge fields in synthetic dimensions
We describe a simple technique for generating a cold-atom lattice pierced by a uniform magnetic field. …
Yu-Ju Lin visits!
Group alumna Yu-Ju Lin visited from Feb. 10 to Feb. 14! In the key-picture you see …
Optimally focused cold atom systems obtained using density-density correlations
Resonant absorption imaging is a common technique for detecting the two-dimensional column density of ultracold atom …
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Karina and Neil: Married!
Much of the old RbII team traveled to San Crístobal de las Casas, Mexico to attend …
Zitterbewegung: JQI writeup
S. Kelly of the JQI did a very nice writeup with awesome artwork for Lindsay’s Zitterbewegung paper …
Magnetically Generated Spin-Orbit Coupling for Ultracold Atoms
We present a new technique for producing two- and three-dimensional Rashba-type spin-orbit couplings for ultracold atoms …
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Raman-Induced Interactions in a Single-Component Fermi Gas Near an s-Wave Feshbach Resonance
Ultracold gases of interacting spin-orbit-coupled fermions are predicted to display exotic phenomena such as topological superfluidity …
Review article: Detection of topological matter with quantum gases
Creating and measuring topological matter – with non-local order deeply embedded in the global structure of …
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Lindsay LeBlanc starts at the University of Alberta, Edmonton
We all wish Lindsay the best as she moves on to her new Assistant Professor position …
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