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 …

Microscopic clustering in light nuclei

M Freer, H Horiuchi, Y Kanada-En'yo, D Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This review examines the tendency of light nuclei to exhibit clustering, where correlations
between nucleons result in the formation of precipitates, typically α particles. The …

Quantum-fluctuation-driven crossover from a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate to a macrodroplet in a dipolar quantum fluid

L Chomaz, S Baier, D Petter, MJ Mark, F Wächtler… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
In a joint experimental and theoretical effort, we report on the formation of a macrodroplet
state in an ultracold bosonic gas of erbium atoms with strong dipolar interactions. By precise …

Observation of roton mode population in a dipolar quantum gas

L Chomaz, RMW van Bijnen, D Petter, G Faraoni… - Nature physics, 2018 - nature.com
The concept of a roton, a special kind of elementary excitation forming a minimum of energy
at finite momentum, has been essential for the understanding of the properties of superfluid …

Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases

F Dalfovo, S Giorgini, LP Pitaevskii, S Stringari - Reviews of modern physics, 1999 - APS
Abstract The phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases in traps is
reviewed from a theoretical perspective. Mean-field theory provides a framework to …

Bose-Einstein condensation in the alkali gases: Some fundamental concepts

AJ Leggett - Reviews of modern physics, 2001 - APS
The author presents a tutorial review of some ideas that are basic to our current
understanding of the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in the dilute atomic …

Formation of a matter-wave bright soliton

L Khaykovich, F Schreck, G Ferrari, T Bourdel… - Science, 2002 - science.org
We report the production of matter-wave solitons in an ultracold lithium-7 gas. The effective
interaction between atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate is tuned with a Feshbach …

Quantum filaments in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

F Wächtler, L Santos - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
Collapse in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates may be arrested by quantum fluctuations.
Due to the anisotropy of the dipole-dipole interactions, the dipole-driven collapse induced by …

Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates

W Ketterle, DS Durfee… - … -Einstein condensation in …, 1999 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEe) in dilute atomic gases [1-5] achieved
several long-standing goals. First, neutral atoms were cooled into the lowest energy state …

Dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose–Einstein condensates

EA Donley, NR Claussen, SL Cornish, JL Roberts… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
When atoms in a gas are cooled to extremely low temperatures, they will—under the
appropriate conditions—condense into a single quantum-mechanical state known as a Bose …