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most citedFormation of ultracold polar molecules in the rovibrational ground state

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quant-ph2026

Universal Defect Statistics in Reverse Quenches

Eduard J. Braun, Daniel Rubin, Margaux Cartier +2

We derive an extension of the generalized Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), which provides a stochastic approach to defect formation, to reverse quench protocols. While the universal s…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Anderson orthogonality scaling in the Rabi-driven heavy Fermi polaron

Michael Rautenberg, Tobias Krom, Eugen Dizer +6

The Anderson orthogonality catastrophe (AOC) is a paradigmatic many-body phenomenon in which a local perturbation induces a macroscopic response of a Fermi sea. We probe signatures…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

The heavy Fermi polaron I: the Lithium-Cesium experiment

Michael Rautenberg, Tobias Krom, Eleonora Lippi +2

We present details of an experimental platform for studying Fermi polarons in a quantum-gas mixture. The system consists of about a thousand bosonic Cs impurities immersed…

quant-ph2026

Characterizing the nitrogen-vacancy center singlet transition and its phonon sideband for absorption-based room-temperature magnetometry

Tobias Probst, Florian Schall, Sebastian Heuft +9

Magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has shown great promise in recent years. In particular, absorption-based magnetometry techniques, employing a cavity to e…

quant-ph2025

Quantum information scrambling in strongly disordered Rydberg spin systems

Maximilian Müllenbach, Sebastian Geier, Adrian Braemer +5

Despite the fact that power-law interactions occur in a plethora of physical systems, their many-body dynamics is far less understood than that of nearest-neighbor interacting syst…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Time-reversal in a dipolar quantum many-body spin system

Sebastian Geier, Adrian Braemer, Eduard Braun +5

Time reversal in a macroscopic system is contradicting daily experience. It is practically impossible to restore a shattered cup to its original state by just time reversing the mi…

physics.atom-ph2023

Magneto-optical trap reaction microscope for photoionization of cold strontium atoms

Shushu Ruan, Xinglong Yu, Zhenjie Shen +10

We developed a magneto-optical trap reaction microscope (MOTREMI) for strontium atoms by combining the multi-particle coincident detection with laser cooling technique. Present com…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 8 cited

Few-photon single ionization of cold rubidium in the over-the-barrier regime

Huanyu Ma, Xincheng Wang, Linxuan Zhang +9

Photoionization of the rubidium (Rb) atoms cooled in a magneto-optical trap, characterized by the coexistence of the ground 5 and the excited 5 states, is investi…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 4 cited

Anomalous loss behavior in a single-component Fermi gas close to a -Wave Feshbach resonance

K. Welz, M. Gerken, B. Zhu +4

We theoretically investigate three-body losses in a single-component Fermi gas near a -wave Feshbach resonance in the interacting, non-unitary regime. We extend the cascade mode…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

Pair localization in dipolar systems with tunable positional disorder

Adrian Braemer, Titus Franz, Matthias Weidemüller +1

Strongly interacting quantum systems subject to quenched disorder exhibit intriguing phenomena such as glassiness and many-body localization. Theoretical studies have mainly focuse…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 22 cited

Ultrafast Many-Body Dynamics in an Ultracold Rydberg-Excited Atomic Mott Insulator

V. Bharti, S. Sugawa, M. Mizoguchi +7

We report the observation and control of ultrafast non-equilibrium many-body electron dynamics in Rydberg-excited spatially-ordered ultracold atoms created from a three-dimensional…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 7 cited

Floquet Hamiltonian Engineering of an Isolated Many-Body Spin System

Sebastian Geier, Nithiwadee Thaicharoen, Clément Hainaut +6

Controlling interactions is the key element for quantum engineering of many-body systems. Using time-periodic driving, a naturally given many-body Hamiltonian of a closed quantum s…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 9 cited

Depletion Imaging of Rydberg atoms in cold atomic gases

M. Ferreira-Cao, V. Gavryusev, T. Franz +4

We present a depletion imaging technique to map out the spatial and temporal dependency of the density distribution of an ultracold gas of Rydberg atoms. Locally resolved absorptio…

physics.atom-ph2017

Two-dimensional magneto-optical trap as a source for cold strontium atoms

Ingo Nosske, Luc Couturier, Fachao Hu +6

We report on the realization of a transversely loaded two-dimensional magneto-optical trap serving as a source for cold strontium atoms. We analyze the dependence of the source's p…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 90 cited

Relaxation of an isolated dipolar-interacting Rydberg quantum spin system

A. Piñeiro Orioli, A. Signoles, H. Wildhagen +4

How do isolated quantum systems approach an equilibrium state? We experimentally and theoretically address this question for a prototypical spin system formed by ultracold atoms pr…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 18 cited

Dynamics of a single trapped ion immersed in a buffer gas

Bastian Höltkemeier, Pascal Weckesser, Henry López-Carrera +1

We provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for describing the dynamics of a single trapped ion interacting with a neutral buffer gas, thus extending our previous studies on b…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 56 cited

Heteronuclear Efimov scenario with positive intraspecies scattering length

Juris Ulmanis, Stephan Häfner, Rico Pires +4

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the heteronuclear Efimov scenario for a three-body system that consists of two bosons and one distinguishable particle with positive…

physics.atom-ph2015

Sympathetic cooling of OH- ions using ultracold Rb atoms in a dark SPOT

H. López, B. Höltkemeier, J. Glässel +5

We are developing a new hybrid atom-ion trap to study the interaction of ultracold rubidium atoms with mass-selected OH- molecules. The ions are trapped inside an octupole rf-trap…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 55 cited

Buffer-gas cooling of a single ion in a multipole radio frequency trap beyond the critical mass ratio

B. Höltkemeier, P. Weckesser, H. López-Carrera +1

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of a trapped ion immersed in a spatially localized buffer gas. For a homogeneous buffer gas, the ion reaches a stable equilibrium only if…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 95 cited

Correlated Exciton Transport in Rydberg-Dressed-Atom Spin Chains

H. Schempp, G. Günter, S. Wüster +2

We investigate the transport of excitations through a chain of atoms with non-local dissipation introduced through coupling to additional short-lived states. The system is describe…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 69 cited

Direct observation of ultrafast many-body electron dynamics in an ultracold Rydberg gas

Nobuyuki Takei, Christian Sommer, Claudiu Genes +6

Many-body correlations govern a variety of important quantum phenomena such as the emergence of superconductivity and magnetism. Understanding quantum many-body systems is thus one…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015★ 31 cited

Universality of weakly bound dimers and Efimov trimers close to Li-Cs Feshbach resonances

J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, R. Pires +3

We study the interspecies scattering properties of ultracold Li-Cs mixtures in their two energetically lowest spin channels in the magnetic field range between 800 G and 1000 G. Cl…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 203 cited

Observation of Efimov Resonances in a Mixture with Extreme Mass Imbalance

R. Pires, J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner +4

We observe two consecutive heteronuclear Efimov resonances in an ultracold Li-Cs mixture by measuring three-body loss coefficients as a function of magnetic field near a Feshbach r…

physics.atom-ph2013★ 145 cited

Full counting statistics of laser excited Rydberg aggregates in a one-dimensional geometry

H. Schempp, G. Günter, M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent +8

We experimentally study the full counting statistics of few-body Rydberg aggregates excited from a quasi-one-dimensional Rydberg gas. We measure asymmetric excitation spectra and i…