Published in Science: Visualizing edge states with an atomic Bose gas in the quantum Hall regime
Bringing ultracold atomic gases into the quantum Hall regime is challenging. We engineered an effective magnetic …
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Abigail Perry defends her thesis!
Abby defended her thesis titled “An apparatus for light-less artificial gauge fields and new imaging techniques” …
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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Zitterbewegung: JQI writeup
S. Kelly of the JQI did a very nice writeup with awesome artwork for Lindsay’s Zitterbewegung paper …
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 …
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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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 …
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