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 …

Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases

A Recati, S Stringari - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Can a gas behave like a crystal? Supersolidity is an intriguing and challenging state of
matter that combines key features of superfluids and crystals. Predicted a long time ago, its …

Two-dimensional supersolidity in a dipolar quantum gas

MA Norcia, C Politi, L Klaus, E Poli, M Sohmen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Supersolid states simultaneously feature properties typically associated with a solid and with
a superfluid. Like a solid, they possess crystalline order, manifesting as a periodic …

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 …

Pattern formation in quantum ferrofluids: From supersolids to superglasses

J Hertkorn, JN Schmidt, M Guo, F Böttcher, KSH Ng… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Pattern formation is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed in nonlinear and out-of-equilibrium
systems. In equilibrium, quantum ferrofluids formed from ultracold atoms were recently …

Experimental observation of roton-like dispersion relations in metamaterials

JA Iglesias Martínez, MF Groß, Y Chen, T Frenzel… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Previously, rotons were observed in correlated quantum systems at low temperatures,
including superfluid helium and Bose-Einstein condensates. Here, following a recent …

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 …

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 …

Supersolidity and crystallization of a dipolar Bose gas in an infinite tube

JC Smith, D Baillie, PB Blakie - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We calculate the ground states of a dipolar Bose gas confined in an infinite tube potential.
We use the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation theory and present a numerical method to …