Quantum systems of ultracold atoms with tunable interactions

@article{GiuliaPhD,
  title = {Quantum systems of ultracold atoms with tunable interactions},
  author = {Faraoni, Giulia},
  journal = {PhD Thesis},
  year = {2018},
  month = {Sep},
  abstract = {My PhD project developes in the framework of a scientific collaboration between
two leading European research groups in the field of experimental ultracold
atomic physics: the group of Prof. Giovanni Modugno at LENS, in Florence, and
the group of Prof. Francesca Ferlaino at the Experimental Physics Institute of the
University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria). The first part of my PhD (November
2014 - April 2016) has been carried out in the group of Prof. Modugno, while
in the second part (May 2016 - July 2017) I worked in the group of Prof. Ferlaino.
The goal of my PhD work is to exploit tunable atomic interactions of different
nature, namely short-range and DDI, to investigate many-body phenomena
in ultracold bosonic quantum gases. During my work in Florence, I have been
involved in the construction of a new experiment, aimed at studying the impact
of weak short-range interatomic interactions on a three-dimensional Anderson localized
system in a controllable disordered potential. My contribution to this
experiment has been at the very initial stage, and consisted in the design of a
new vacuum apparatus necessary to produce a Bose-Einstein condensate of 39K
atoms. In Innsbruck I have been working on a fully operating machine, producing
dipolar BECs of 166Er atoms. Here, I have been involved in the first experimental
observation of the roton mode population in a dipolar BEC. My contribution to
the ERBIUM experiment in Innsbruck has been twofold: I participated to the
measurements, and performed numerical simulations.},
  url = {https://flore.unifi.it/retrieve/handle/2158/1121424/319974/PhD_Thesis_Faraoni_Final.pdf},
}