Pramodh Yapa

Optical Manipulation of Spin States in Ultracold Magnetic Atoms

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ImageWe present an all-optical method for deterministically controlling the spin composition of a quantum gas, based on a clock-like transition, and demonstrate that this transition can also be used to create spin-selective light shifts! 

The article has now been published in Physical Review Research, and the pre-print can be accessed here: arxiv.org/abs/2405.01499.

Spektrum magazine article: glitches in supersolids and neutron stars for Sterne und Weltraum

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For German speakers: in this month’s edition of ‘Sterne und Weltraum’ of Spektrum magazine, you will find an article  about the links between glitches in supersolids and in neutron stars, written by our very own Elena Poli, Thomas Bland, Manfred Mark, and Francesca Ferlaino, alongside frequent collaborator, Massimo Mannarelli.

Read the article here: https://www.spektrum.de/news/pulsare-quantenwirbel-beschleunigen-neutronensterne/2206793

Welcome to Felix

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Felix Borchers joins us in the T-REQS lab for 5 months as a Masters Intern! Felix is originally from Bonn, Germany and in 2023 he completed his Bachelors in Heidelberg with a thesis on ‘Simulating Absorption Imaging of Ultracold Fermi Gases’. He is currently in the third semester of his Masters in Physics at ETH Zurich. Welcome to the group, Felix!

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