Established techniques for deterministically creating dark solitons in repulsively interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) can only …
Creating solitons with controllable and near-zero velocity in Bose-Einstein condensates Read more →
We demonstrate partial-transfer absorption imaging as a technique for repeatedly imaging an ultracold atomic ensemble with …
Repeated measurements with minimally destructive partial-transfer absorption imaging Read more →
The creation of particle–antiparticle pairs from vacuum by a large electric field is at the core …
Physical systems with non-trivial topological order find direct applications in metrology (Klitzing et al 1980 Phys. …
Newly minted Ph.D., Dr. Lauren M. Aycock has been award the 2017-2018 APS Congressional Science Fellowship! …
Dr. Lauren M. Aycock awarded the APS Congressional Science Fellowship for 2017-2018 Read more →
Solitons, spatially localized, mobile excitations resulting from an interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion, are ubiquitous in …
Brownian motion of solitons in a Bose–Einstein condensate Read more →
Lauren defended her thesis titled “Topological excitations in a Bose gas & sexual harassment reported by …
Synthetic gauge fields for ultracold neutral atoms—engineered using the interaction between laser fields and the atoms’ …
Tutorial: Synthetic gauge potentials for ultracold neutral atoms Read more →
We realized a quantum geometric “charge” pump for a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the lowest Bloch …
Geometrical Pumping with a Bose-Einstein Condensate Read more →
We directly measured the normalized s-wave scattering cross-section of ultracold 40K atoms across a magnetic-field Feshbach …