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 →
The boys of Boy Scout troop 1097 helped Ian out and presented experiments ranging from magnetism …
The UMD team got together to celebrate our recent paper “Magnetic phases of spin-1 spin–orbit-coupled Bose …
Celebration of: Magnetic phases of spin-1 spin–orbit-coupled Bose gases Read more →
The first Na BEC experiment in Gaithersburg was vented today. This experiment has lead a long …
Original BEC Experiment in Gaithersburg: Vented! Read more →
We theoretically explore a Rashba spin–orbit coupling scheme which operates entirely in the absolute ground state …
Phases of matter are characterized by order parameters describing the type and degree of order in …
Magnetic phases of spin-1 spin–orbit-coupled Bose gases Read more →
We study the interplay between large-spin, spin-orbit coupling, and superfluidity for bosons in a two-dimensional optical …
Interaction-driven exotic quantum phases in spin-orbit-coupled spin-1 bosons Read more →
We directly measured the normalized s-wave scattering cross-section of ultracold 40K atoms across a magnetic-field Feshbach …
