Efficient creation of dipolar <sup>168</sup>Er Bose-Einstein condensates for quantum simulation
ORAL
Abstract
Lanthanide atoms such as erbium and dysprosium, are excellent systems for the study of quantum many-body physics due to their considerable magnetic moment from the large angular momentum. To explore such a dipolar system, we create degenerate erbium quantum gases in a newly developed apparatus, in which diverse cold-atom toolkits including a narrow-line optical transition, a Feshbach resonance, and a metastable excited state are easily available. I will discuss how we efficiently prepare degenerate dipolar quantum gases of 168Er using the two-stage slower followed by the evaporative cooling in a crossed dipole trap, as well as on-going experiments with dipolar atoms.
*We acknowledge the generous support from the Research Grants Councils of Hong Kong, the Croucher Foundation and the Hari Harilela foundation through 16305317, 16304918, 16306119, 16302420, C6005-17G and N-HKUST601/17 and the Croucher Innovation grants respectively.
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Presenters
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Bojeong Seo
- Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Hong Kong University of Science and Tech