Cold Atoms Discussion Meetings

• Current list of possible papers for the discussion group

 

• 17/11/10 -Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo"Bose-Einstein Condensation in Microgravity",T. van Zoest et al, Sciene, 328,5985,1540-1543 (2010)
  
 
• 10/11/10 -Paper introduced by G Bruce"Confinement-Induced Resonances in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems ", Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153203 (2010)
  
 
• 29/09/10 -Paper introduced by J Keeling"Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity", Baumann et al, Nature 464, 1301 (2010) and
  "Atom-light crystallization of BECs in multimode cavities: Nonequilibrium classical and quantum phase transitions, emergent lattices, supersolidity, and frustration", Gopalakrishnan et al., arXiv 1007.0922 (2010)
  
 
• 25/08/10 -Discussion about ICAP2010 introduced by L Torralbo-Campo
  
 
• 18/08/10 -Paper introduced by G Bruce"Measuring the Superfluid-to-Mott Insulator Transition at the Single-Atom Level", W. S. Bakr, et al, Science 329, 547 (2010)
  
 
• 28/07/10 -Papers introduced by G Bruce"Observation of Elastic Doublon Decay in the Fermi-Hubbard Model",N Strohmaier, et al, PRL 104, 080401 (2010) and
  "Quantitative Determination of Temperature in the Approach to Magnetic Order of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice",R Joerdens, et al, PRL 104, 180401 (2010)
  
 
• 21/07/10-Paper introduced by G Smirne"Trapping ultracold atoms in a time-averaged adiabatic potential", M. Gildemeister, E. Nugent, B. E. Sherlock, M. Kubasik, B. T. Sheard, and C. J. Foot
  
 
• 14/07/10-Paper introduced by T Harte"Observation of a Vortex Nucleation in a Rotating 2D Lattice of BECs ", R. A. Williams, S. Al-Assam, and C. J. Foot, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 050404 (2010)
  
 
• 07/07/10-Paper introduced by C Hooley" A Rydberg quantum simulator ", H Weimer, M Mueller, I Lesanovsky, P Zoller and H P Buechler, Nature Physics 6, 382 (2010)
  
 
• 30/06/10-Discussion about cold atoms and holographic optical traps introduced by G Bruce
  
 
• 02/06/10-Discussion about L Windholtz's research in Li-Na Mot from dispensers introduced by L Torralbo-Campo"Research thesis publications","Photoionization cross-sections of the first excited states of sodium and lithium in a magneto-optical trap",V. Wippel, C. Binder, W. Huber, L. Windholz, M. Allegrini, F. Fuso and E. Arimondo, Eur. Phys. J. D 17, 285-291 (2001)
  
 
• 24/05/10-Paper introduced by G Smirne "Anomalous Expansion of Attractively Interacting Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice",L Hackermuller, et al, Science 327, 1621 (2010)
  
 
• 10/05/10-Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo "Frustrated tunneling of ultracold atoms in a state-dependent optical lattice ", Xiang-Fa Zhou, et al, PRA 81, 021602 (2010)
  
 
• 26/04/10-Paper introduced by C Hooley "Exploring the thermodynamics of a universal Fermi gas", S. Nascimbène, N. Navon, K. J. Jiang, F. Chevy & C. Salomon , Nature 463, 1057-1060 (25 February 2010)
  
 
• 19/04/10-Paper introduced by J Thom "A trapped single ion inside a Bose–Einstein condensate", Christoph Zipkes, Stefan Palzer, Carlo Sias and Michael Köhl, Nature 464, 388-391 (2010)
  
 
• 12/04/10- Papers introduced by G Bruce" Trapping Ultracold Dysposrium: A Highly Magnetic Gas for Dipolar Physics ", Mingwu Lu, Seo Hu Youn, and Benjamin L Lev, Phys Rev Lett 104, 063001 (2010) and
  "Magneto-Optical Trap for Thulium Atoms",D Sukachev, et al, arXiv 1003:0877v1 (2010)
  
 
• 29/03/10-Discussion about March Meeting introduced by Chris: main highlights, how to make cold atoms systems more comparable to CM systems" Photons as Phonons: Flexible crystals of atoms and light in multimode cavities"S Gopalakrishnan et al, Nature Physics 5, 845-850 (2009) and
  "Pure Mott phases in confined ultra-cold atomic systems",V Rousseau et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167201 (2010)
  
 
• 22/03/10-Paper introduced by J Thom " A quantum trampoline for ultra-cold atoms" ,M R De Saint Vincent, J-P Brantut, C J Borde, A Aspect, T Bourdel, P Bouyer, Europhys. Lett 89 10002 (2010)
  
 
• 15/03/10- Review based on Anderson Localization introduced by L Torralbo-Campo" Anderson localization of ultracold atoms", A Aspect and M Inguscio,PhysicsToday August(2009) and
  " Disordered quantum gases under control",L Sanchez-Palencia and M Lewenstein, Nature Physics 6, 87 - 95 (2010)
  
 
• 08/03/10- Review based on efimov physics introduced by G Bruce
  
 
• 01/03/10- Paper introduced by C Hooley " Realization of an Excited, Strongly Correlated Quantum Gas Phase",E Haller, M Gustavsson, M J Mark, J G Danzl, R Hart, G Pupillo, H-C Nagerl, Science 325, 1224 (2009)
  
 
• 22/02/10- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo " Two-element Zeeman Slower for Rubidium and Lithium",G Edward Marti, Ryan Olf, Enrico Vogt, Anton Oettl, and Dan M Stamper-Kurn, Phys. Rev. A 81, 043424 (2010)
  
 
• 10/02/10- Paper introduced by G Smirne " Optical lattice on an atom chip", D Gallego, S Hofferberth, T Schumm, P Krueger and J Schmiedmayer, Optics Letters 34, 3463 (2009)
  
 
• 03/02/10- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo " Microtraps for Neutral Atoms Using Superconducting Structures in the Critical State "A Emmert, A Lupascu, M Brune, J-M Raimond, S Haroche and G Nogues, PRA 80, 061604(R) (2009)
  "Stable Neutral Atom Trap with a Thin Superconducting Disc ",F Shimizu, C Hufnagel and T Mukai, PRL 103, 253002 (2009)
  
 
• 27/01/10- Paper introduced by G Bruce " Experimental Demonstration of Single-Site Addressability in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice " P Wurtz, T Langen, T Gericke, A Koglbauer and H Ott, PRL 103, 080404 (2009)
  
 
• 20/01/10- Paper introduced by C Hooley "Quantum Transport through a Tonks-Girardeau Gas " S Palzer, C Zipkes, C Sias and M Koehl, PRL 103, 150601 (2009)
  
 
• 13/01/10- Paper introduced by G Smirne " A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice " WS Bakr, JI Gillen, A Peng, S Foelling and M Greiner, Nature 462, 74 (2009)
  
 
• 09/12/09- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo" Buffer-Gas Cooled Bose-Einstein Condensate" S C Doret,C B.Connolly, W Ketterle and J M. Doyle, PRL, 103, 080404 (2009)
  
 
• 02/12/09-Papers introduced by G Bruce" Bose-Einstein Condensation of Alkali Earth Atoms:40Ca" S Kraft et al, PRL 103, 130401 (2009) and
  " Bose-Einstein Condensation of Strontium ",S Stellmaer et al, PRL 103, 200401 (2009)" Bose-Einstein Condensation of 84Sr ",Y N Martinez de Escobar et al, PRL 103, 200402 (2009)
  
 
• 25/11/09 -Papers introduced by C Hooley"Emergence of Turbulence in an Oscillating Bose-Einstein Condensate",E A L Henn, et al, PRL 103, 045301 (2009) and
  " Generation of vortices and observation of Quantum Turbulence in an oscillating Bose-Einstein Condensate ", E A L Henn, et al, arXiv: 0910.2729 (2009)
  
 
• 18/11/09 -Paper introduced by G Smirne" Versatile transporter apparatus for experiments with optically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates ",D.Pertot, et al, J Phys B: At Mol Opt Phys 42, 215305 (2009)
  
 
• 11/11/09 - Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo" Entropy Exchange in a Mixture of Ultracold Atoms", J Catani, G Barontini, G Lamporesi, F Rabatti, G Thalhammer,F Minardi, S Strinari and M Inguscio, PRL 103, 140401 (2009)
  
 
• 04/11/09 - Paper introduced by G Bruce" Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Uniform Light-Induced Vector Potential", Y.-J. Lin, R.L. Compton, A.R. Perry, W.D. Phillips, J.V. Porto, and I.B. Spielman,PRL 102, 130401 (2009)
  
 
• 21/10/09 and 28/10/09- Papers introduced by C Hooley" Itinerant ferromagnetism in a Fermi gas of ultracold atoms",G-B Jo, et al, Science 325, 1521 (2009) and
  "A repulsive atomic gas in a harmonic trap on the border of itinerant ferromagnetism ",GJ Conduit and BD Simons, arXiv 0907.3725 (2009)
  
 
• 24/09/09-Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo" Spin gradient thermometry for ultracold atoms in optical lattices",David M Weld, Patrick Medley, Hirokazu Miyake, David Hucul, David E Pritchard and Wolfang Ketterle, ArXiv:0908.3046v1,(2009)
  
 
• 17/09/09-Paper introduced by G Smirne" High-flux two-dimensional magneto-optical-trap source for cold lithium atoms",TG Tiecke, SD Gensemer, A Ludewig, and JTM Walraven, PRA 80, 013409 (2009)
  
 
• 03/08/09- Papers introduced by G Bruce" Evidence for Universal Four-Body States Tied to an Efimov Trimer", F Ferlaino et al, PRL 102, 140401 and
  "Observation of an Efimov Spectrum in an atomic system ", M Zaccanti et al, Nature Physics 5, 586,"Observation of Heteronuclear Atomic Efimov Resonances", G Barontini et al, PRL 103, 043201
  
 
• 20/08/09- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo" Compression as a Tool to Detect Bose Glass in a Cold Atomic Gas",Dominique Delande and Jakub Zakrzewski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 085301(2009)
  
 
• 13/08/09- Paper introduced by G Smirne:" Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Light Storage In An Atomic Mott Insulator",U Schnorrberger, JD Thompson, S Trotzky, R Pugatch, N Davidson, S Kuhr and I Bloch, Phys Rev Lett 103, 033003 (2009)
  
 
• 06/08/09- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo:" A Sonic Black Hole in a Density Inverted Bose-Einstein Condensate",O Lahav, A Itah, A Blumkin, C Gordon and J Steinhauer,arXiv: 0906.1337v1 (2009)
  
 
• 30/07/09- Paper introduced by C Hooley:" Competition between Anderson localization and Antiferromagnetism in correlated lattice fermion system with disorder",Krzysztof Byczuk, Walter Hofstetter and Dieter Vollhardt, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146403 (2009)
  
 
• 23/07/09- Paper introduced by G Bruce:" Cooling fermionic atoms in optical lattices by shaping the confinement",Jean-Sebastien Bernier, Corinna Kollath, Antoine Georges, Lorenzo De Leo,Fabrice Gerbier, Christophe Salomon and Michael Koehl,Phys Rev A 79, 061601(R) (2009)
  
 
• 16/07/09- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo:" Observation of a 2D Bose Gas: From Thermal to Quasicondensate to Superfluid",P Clade, C Ryu, A Ramanathan, K Helmerson and WD Phillips, Phys Rev Lett 102, 170401 (2009)
  
 
• 09/07/09- Paper introduced by G Bruce:" Comprehensive Control of Atomic Motion",Mark G. Raizen, Science 324, 1403(2009)
  
 
• 02/07/09- Paper introduced by G Smirne:" Exploring correlated 1D Bose Gases from the Superfluid to the Mott Insulator State by Inelastic Light Scattering",D Clement, N Fabbri, L Fallani, C Fort and M Inguscio, Phys Rev Lett 102, 155301 (2009)
  
 
• 25/06/09- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo:" Light-pulse atom interferometry in microgravity",G Stern, et al, ArXiv 0903.3284v1 (2009)
  
 
• 18/06/09- Paper introduced by G Bruce:" Observation of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules",V Bendkowsky et al, Nature 458, 1005 (2009)
  
 
• 09/06/09- Presentation given by J Betouras:" Metanematic, smectic, and crystalline phases of dipolar fermions in an optical lattice",J Quintanilla, S T Carr and J J BetourasPhys. Rev. A 79, 031601(R) (2009)
  
 
• 02/06/09- Paper introduced by G Smirne:" Nearest Neighbour Detection of Atoms in a 1D Optical Lattice by Fluorescence Imaging",M Karski, L Foerster, JM Choi, W Alt, A Widera and D Meschede,Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053001 (2009)
  
 
• 26/05/09- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo:" Rapid production of $^{87}$Rb BECs in a combined magnetic and optical potential",Y.-J. Lin, A. R. Perry, R. L. Compton, I. B. Spielman, J. V. PortoarXiv:0904.3314(2009)
  
 
• 19/05/09- Paper introduced by G Bruce:"Direct, Nondestructive Observation of a Bose Condensate"",M. R. Andrews, M.-O. Mewes, N. J. van Druten, D. S. Durfee, D. M. Kurn, W. KetterleScience 273, 84 (1996)
  
 
• 28/04/09 - Paper introduced by C Hooley:"Independent Control of Scattering Lengths in Multicomponent Quantum Gases",Peng Zhang, Pascal Naidon and Masahito Ueda,arXiv: 0901.0694(2009)
  
 
• 21/04/09 - Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo:"Crystalline Magnetic Order in a Dipolar Quantum Fluid",M Vengalattore, J Guzman, S Leslie, F Serwane, D. M. Stamper-KurnarXiv:0901.3800v1(2009). See also Is it a Gas, Fluid, Solid, or All of the Above?" Robert Service, ScienceNOW Daily News 18th March 2009
  
 
• 14/04/09 - Paper discussed by the group:"All-optical runaway evaporation to Bose-Einstein condensation",J.-F. Clement, et alarXiv:0903.2745v1(2009) and "Compact laser cooling apparatus for simultaneous cooling of lithium and rubidium",K. Ladouceur, et alJ Opt Soc Am B 26, p210 (2009)
  
 
• 07/04/09 - Paper introduced by G Bruce :"Efficiency in the loading of a sodium magneto-optical trap from alkali metal dispensers",R Muhammad, et al,Optics Communications 281, p4926-4930 (2008)
  
 
• 31/03/09 - Paper introduced by G Smirne :"Experimental demonstration of painting arbitrary and dynamic potentials for Bose-Einstein condensates",K Henderson,C Ryu,C MacCormick,MG Boshier,arXiv:0902.2171v1 (2009)
  
 
• 24/03/09 - Paper introduced by C Hooley :"Probing Spatial Spin Correlations of Ultracold Gases by Quantum Noise Spectroscopy",G. M. Bruun, Brian M. Andersen, Eugene Demler, and Anders S. SorensenPRL 102, 030401 (2009)
  
 
• 17/03/09 - Paper introduced by G Bruce :"Suspension of atoms and gravimetry using a pulsed standing wave",K. J. Hughes, J. H. T. Burke and C. A. Sackett, - arXiv: 0902.0109v1 (2009)
  
 
• 10/03/09 - Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo :"High-resolution scanning electron microscopy of an ultracold quantum gas",T Gericke et al, - Nature 4,12,949 (2008)
  
 
• 09/02/09 - Paper introduced by G Smirne :"Role of Interactions in 87Rb-40K Bose-Fermi Mixtures in a 3D Optical Lattices",Th. Best, et al - PRL 102, 030408 (2009)
  
 
• 02/02/09 - Paper introduced by G Bruce :"Exploring dynamic localization with a Bose-Einstein Condensate",A. Eckhart, M. Holthaus, H. Lignier, A. Zenesini, D. Ciampini, O. Morsch and E. ArimondoPhys Rev A 79, 013611 (2009)
  
 
• 19/01/09 and 26/01/09 - Papers introduced by L Torralbo-Campo: "Bragg Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas" G. Veeravalli, E. Kuhnle, P. Dyke, and C. J. Vale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250403 (2008) and
  "Bragg Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting 85Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate", S. B. Papp, J. M. Pino, R. J. Wild, S. Ronen, C. E. Wieman, D. S. Jin, and E. A. Cornell,Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 135301 (2008)
  
 
• 15/12/08- Paper introduced by G Bruce: "Metallic and Insulating Phases of Repulsively Interacting Fermions in a 3D Optical Lattice"U. Schneider, L. Hackermüller, S. Will, Th. Best, I. Bloch, T. A. Costi, R. W. Helmes, D. Rasch, A. Rosch, Science,Vol. 322. no. 5907, pp. 1520 - 1525 (2008)
  
 
• 08/12/08- Paper introduced by G Smirne: "Trapping and Cooling Fermionic Atoms into Mott and Néel States" De Leo et al, PRL 101, 210403 (2008)
  
 
• 01/12/08- Paper introduced by L Torralbo-Campo: "Thermodynamical approaches to efficient sympathetic cooling in ultracold Fermi-Bose atomic mixtures" M. Brown-Hayes, Q. Wei, C. Presilla, and R. Onofrio, Physical review A 78, 013617 (2008)
  
 
• 24/11/08- Paper introduced by G Bruce: "Observation of Anomalous Spin Segregation in a Trapped Fermi Gas" X. Du, L. Luo, B. Clancy, and J. E. Thomas, Physical Review Letters 101, 150401 (2008)
  
 
• 3/11/08- Papers introduced by G Bruce: "Direct observation of Anderson localization of matter waves in a controlled disorder" Juliette Billy, et al, Nature, 453, 12 June 2008 (page 891-894) and
  "Anderson localization of a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate"Giacomo Roati, et al Nature, 453, 12 June 2008 (page 895-898)
  
 
• 23/10/08- Short summary of one of the topics covered at the recent Summer School on Laser cooling and BEC at Les Houches introduced by L Torralbo-Campo:"Low dimensional quantum gases: vortices and rotation" - originally presented by Jean Dalibard, ENS Paris
  
 
• 16/10/08- Paper introduced by G Smirne: "Recent experiments in polar molecules in the ro-vibrational ground state: "A high phase-space-density gas of polar molecules" K.-K. Ni et al. Science 310, 10 Oct 2008", "Ultracold Triplet Molecules in the rovibrational ground state" F. Lang et al.PRL 101, 133005 (2008) (25 september)" and "Formation of ultracold polar molecules in the rovibrational ground state" J.Deiglmayr et al.,PRL 101, 133004 (2008) (25 September)"
  
 
• 09/10/08- Short summary of one of the topics covered at the recent Summer School on Cold Atoms and Optical Lattices at the University of Oxford introduced by G Bruce:"Ultracold fermions in optical lattices" - originally presented by Michael Köhl, University of Cambridge
  
 
• 18/09/08- Paper introduced by G Bruce: "A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice", Nature, 455, 11 September 2008 (pag 204-207) R.Jördens, N.Strohmaier, K.Günter, H.Moritz, T.Esslinger
  
 
• 11/09/08 -Paper introduced by G Smirne: "Using photoemission spectroscopy to probe a strongly interacting Fermi gas",Nature, 454, 7 August 2008 (pag 744-7) J.T Stewart, J.P Gaebler, D.S Jin (JILA)