Abigail Perry defends her thesis!
Abby defended her thesis titled “An apparatus for light-less artificial gauge fields and new imaging techniques” today. Way to go!
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Gauge matters: observing the vortex-nucleation transition in a Bose condensate
The order parameter of a quantum-coherent many-body system can include a phase degree of freedom, which, in the presence of an electromagnetic field, depends on the choice of gauge. Because of the relationship between the phase gradient and the velocity, …
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Tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling via Strong Driving in Ultracold-Atom Systems
Spin-orbit coupling is an essential ingredient in topological materials, conventional and quantum-gas-based alike. Engineered spin-orbit coupling in ultracold-atom systems—unique in their experimental control and measurement opportunities—provides a major opportunity to investigate and understand topological phenomena. Here we experimentally demonstrate and …
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Karina and Ian’s book chapter on Mott/Superfluid physics published
Karina and Ian’s book chapter “The Mott Transition in a Bose Gas Measured Through Time of Flight” is published on page 145 of the “Annual Reviews of Cold atoms and Molecules” volume 2. Wow, it takes a long time for …
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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 as a “Highlight of 2013” by The New Journal of Physics! Way to go team! Highlights page: http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/page/highlights-of-2013 Article: http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/15/7/073011/article
Zitterbewegung: JQI writeup
S. Kelly of the JQI did a very nice writeup with awesome artwork for Lindsay’s Zitterbewegung paper as follows: In “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (JK Rowling, 1997), Harry, Ron, and Hermione encounter a massive stone chessboard, one of many …
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 and its associated Majorana fermions. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a route to strongly interacting single-component atomic Fermi gases by combining an s-wave Feshbach resonance (giving …
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 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton! In her time in the group, Linsday lead two fantastically successful experiments, first measuring the Hall effect in a …
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Direct observation of zitterbewegung in a Bose–Einstein condensate
Zitterbewegung, a force-free trembling motion first predicted for relativistic fermions like electrons, was an unexpected consequence of the Dirac equation’s unification of quantum mechanics and special relativity. Though the oscillatory motion’s large frequency and small amplitude have precluded its measurement with electrons, zitterbewegung is …
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Karina Jimenéz-García is a finalist for the 2013 DAMOP thesis prize!
We are delighted and proud that Karina has been selected as a finalist for the 2013 DAMOP thesis prize! Karina (remotely) presented her thesis research in the special Prize Session at DAMOP this year.