Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases

L Chomaz, I Ferrier-Barbut, F Ferlaino… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the achievement of quantum degeneracy in gases of chromium atoms in 2004, the
experimental investigation of ultracold gases made of highly magnetic atoms has …

Developments in atomic control using ultracold magnetic lanthanides

MA Norcia, F Ferlaino - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Lanthanide atoms have an unusual electron configuration, with a partially filled shell of f
orbitals. This leads to a set of characteristic properties, including large numbers of optical …

Phases of supersolids in confined dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

YC Zhang, T Pohl, F Maucher - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates represent a powerful platform for the exploration of
quantum many-body phenomena arising from long-range interactions. A series of recent …

Observation of vortices and vortex stripes in a dipolar condensate

L Klaus, T Bland, E Poli, C Politi, G Lamporesi… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Quantized vortices are a prototypical feature of superfluidity that have been observed in
multiple quantum gas experiments. But the occurrence of vortices in dipolar quantum gases …

Heating a dipolar quantum fluid into a solid

J Sánchez-Baena, C Politi, F Maucher… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Raising the temperature of a material enhances the thermal motion of particles. Such an
increase in thermal energy commonly leads to the melting of a solid into a fluid and …

Two-dimensional supersolid formation in dipolar condensates

T Bland, E Poli, C Politi, L Klaus, MA Norcia… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Dipolar condensates have recently been coaxed to form the long-sought supersolid phase.
While one-dimensional supersolids may be prepared by triggering a roton instability, we find …

Dimensional crossover in the superfluid-supersolid quantum phase transition

G Biagioni, N Antolini, A Alaña, M Modugno, A Fioretti… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Supersolids are a fundamental quantum phase of matter where the global phase and
translational symmetries are spontaneously broken. The recently discovered supersolidity in …

Self-bound dipolar droplets and supersolids in molecular Bose-Einstein condensates

M Schmidt, L Lassablière, G Quéméner, T Langen - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
We numerically study the many-body physics of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates with
strong dipole-dipole interactions. We observe the formation of self-bound droplets, and …

Long-lifetime supersolid in a two-component dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

S Li, UN Le, H Saito - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Recent studies on supersolidity in a single-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
have relied on the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction for stabilization of self-bound droplets …

Supersolidity in two-dimensional trapped dipolar droplet arrays

J Hertkorn, JN Schmidt, M Guo, F Böttcher, KSH Ng… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate the ground states and the spectrum of elementary excitations
across the superfluid to droplet crystallization transition of an oblate dipolar Bose-Einstein …