Research Areas - (3) Dipolar Quantum Gases (Dy, Er)

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Sylvain Nascimbène 🔗
École Normale Supérieure 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): LKB / Collège de France | LKB Quantum Gases Group (Nascimbène / Dalibard) — Collège de France @ ENS Paris
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Sylvain Nascimbène (Assoc. Prof./Maître de conférences, LKB BEC/Collège de France, IUF 2022) leads the Dysprosium lab. Research: (1) large-spin dysprosium Bose-Einstein condensates for quantum simulation of exotic magnetic phases; (2) quantum metrology with entangled spin states; (3) realisation of topological matter (2025: parity anomaly in 2D); also theory on topological quantum simulation (with Nathan Goldman). Strong connection to quantum sensing via entanglement-enhanced metrology.

Tilman Pfau 🔗
University of Stuttgart 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | 5th Institute of Physics (Pfau Group) @ Stuttgart
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Pfau's institute spans dipolar quantum gases (first Dy BEC, supersolids), interacting Rydberg atoms for simulation/computing, Rydberg electrometry with thermal atomic vapours and integrated atomic photonics, and laser cooling of molecules. Rydberg vapour electrometry is a leading electric-field quantum sensor. In the broader landscape of NV-centre ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) operating near pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, this work complements spin sensing with atom-based electric-field metrology.

Robert Smith 🔗
University of Oxford 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics (Clarendon Laboratory) | Dipolar Quantum Gases Group @ Oxford
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Smith's Dipolar Quantum Gases group builds ultracold erbium (and Er-K mixture) experiments to study the effect of long-range, anisotropic dipole-dipole interactions on many-body quantum phenomena including supersolidity, turbulence and impurity/polaron physics.