Description: Laser and evaporative cooling of alkali/other atomic species to quantum degeneracy for quantum-gas and low-dimensional many-body physics experiments.
Bakkali-Hassani works within LKB's BEC team on two-dimensional and low-dimensional quantum-gas physics, including superfluid phase transitions and collective excitations in ultracold Bose gases.
Beugnon is one of five permanent members of LKB's Bose-Einstein Condensates team (associated with Jean Dalibard's Atoms and Radiation chair at College de France), studying two-dimensional Bose gases, superfluidity, and box-trapped homogeneous quantum gases as precisely controllable quantum simulators.
Gerbier is a permanent researcher in LKB's BEC team, working on spinor and lattice-confined Bose-Einstein condensates and their use as quantum simulators of strongly-correlated many-body physics.
Lopes is a permanent member of LKB's BEC team studying correlations and quantum-gas dynamics in ultracold atomic ensembles, including momentum-space correlation measurements analogous to Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometry for matter waves.
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.