Dr. Lauren M. Aycock defended her thesis today.
Lauren defended her thesis titled “Topological excitations in a Bose gas & sexual harassment reported by …
Tutorial: Synthetic gauge potentials for ultracold neutral atoms
Synthetic gauge fields for ultracold neutral atoms—engineered using the interaction between laser fields and the atoms’ …
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Geometrical Pumping with a Bose-Einstein Condensate
We realized a quantum geometric “charge” pump for a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the lowest Bloch …
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Rockville Science day with Troop 1097
The boys of Boy Scout troop 1097 helped Ian out and presented experiments ranging from magnetism …
Celebration of: Magnetic phases of spin-1 spin–orbit-coupled Bose gases
The UMD team got together to celebrate our recent paper “Magnetic phases of spin-1 spin–orbit-coupled Bose …
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Original BEC Experiment in Gaithersburg: Vented!
The first Na BEC experiment in Gaithersburg was vented today. This experiment has lead a long …
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Rashba realization: Raman with RF
We theoretically explore a Rashba spin–orbit coupling scheme which operates entirely in the absolute ground state …
Magnetic phases of spin-1 spin–orbit-coupled Bose gases
Phases of matter are characterized by order parameters describing the type and degree of order in …
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Interaction-driven exotic quantum phases in spin-orbit-coupled spin-1 bosons
We study the interplay between large-spin, spin-orbit coupling, and superfluidity for bosons in a two-dimensional optical …
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Feshbach enhanced s-wave scattering of fermions: direct observation with optimized absorption imaging
We directly measured the normalized s-wave scattering cross-section of ultracold 40K atoms across a magnetic-field Feshbach …