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20122026
most citedObservation of quantum droplets in a strongly dipolar Bose gas

725 citations · 4.4k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

Fourier imaging of collective spontaneous emission modes in superradiant cold atomic clouds

Adrien Gavalda, Guillaume Tremblier, Martin Poitrinal +3

We measure the spatial pattern associated with the superradiant emission from a cloud of cold 87Rb atoms using Fourier imaging. We observe a highly directional, ring-shaped emissio…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Connected correlations in cold atom experiments

Thomas Chalopin, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Thierry Lahaye +2

The recent development of single-atom-resolved probes has made full counting statistics measurements accessible in quantum gas experiments. This capability provides access to high-…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 2 cited

Narrowline cooling of dysprosium atoms in an optical tweezer array

Giulio Biagioni, Britton Hofer, Nathan Bonvalet +3

We perform narrowline cooling of single dysprosium atoms trapped in a 1D optical tweezers array, employing the narrow single-photon transition at 741 nm. At the trapping wavelength…

quant-ph2024

Single-atom resolved collective spectroscopy of a one-dimensional atomic array

Britton Hofer, Damien Bloch, Giulio Biagioni +3

Ordered atomic arrays feature an enhanced collective optical response compared to random atomic ensembles due to constructive interference in resonant dipole-dipole interactions. O…

quant-ph2024

Emergence of second-order coherence in the superradiant emission from a free-space atomic ensemble

Giovanni Ferioli, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Antoine Browaeys

We investigate the evolution of the second-order temporal coherence during the emission of a superradiant burst by an elongated cloud of cold Rb atoms in free space. To do so, we m…

physics.atom-ph2024

Anisotropic polarizability of Dy at 532 nm on the intercombination transition

Damien Bloch, Britton Hofer, Sam Roberto Cohen +3

We report experimental measurements of the dynamical polarizability of dysprosium, at a wavelength of 532 nm. We measure all three components (scalar, vector, tensor) of the anisot…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 23 cited

Directional superradiance in a driven ultracold atomic gas in free-space

Sanaa Agarwal, Edwin Chaparro, Diego Barberena +6

Ultra-cold atomic systems are among the most promising platforms that have the potential to shed light on the complex behavior of many-body quantum systems. One prominent example i…

quant-ph2024

Driven-dissipative phase separation in free-space atomic ensembles

Daniel Goncalves, Lisa Bombieri, Giovanni Ferioli +5

The driven Dicke model, wherein an ensemble of atoms is driven by an external field and undergoes collective spontaneous emission due to coupling to a leaky cavity mode, is a parad…

quant-ph2023

Non-Gaussian correlations in the steady-state of driven-dissipative clouds of two-level atoms

Giovanni Ferioli, Sara Pancaldi, Antoine Glicenstein +3

We report experimental measurements of the second-order coherence function of the light emitted by a laser-driven dense ensemble of Rb atoms. We observe a clear…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 27 cited

Trapping and imaging single dysprosium atoms in optical tweezer arrays

Damien Bloch, Britton Hofer, Sam R. Cohen +2

We report the preparation and observation of single atoms of dysprosium in arrays of optical tweezers with a wavelength of 532 nm imaged on the intercombination line at 626 nm. We…

quant-ph2022

Optical control of collective states in 1D ordered atomic chains beyond the linear regime

Nikos Fayard, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Antoine Browaeys +1

Driven by the need to develop efficient atom-photon interfaces, recent efforts have proposed replacing cavities by large arrays of cold atoms that can support subradiant or superra…

quant-ph2022★ 96 cited

A non-equilibrium superradiant phase transition in free space

Giovanni Ferioli, Antoine Glicenstein, Igor Ferrier-Barbut +1

A class of systems exists in which dissipation, external drive and interactions compete and give rise to non equilibrium phases that would not exist without the drive. There, phase…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 405 cited

Dipolar physics: A review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases

Lauriane Chomaz, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Francesca Ferlaino +3

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 blossomed. The f…

quant-ph2021★ 27 cited

From superradiance to subradiance: exploring the many-body Dicke ladder

Antoine Glicenstein, Giovanni Ferioli, Antoine Browaeys +1

We report a time-resolved study of collective emission in dense ensembles of two-level atoms. We compare, on the same sample, the build-up of superradiance and subradiance from the…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 2 cited

Laser driven superradiant ensembles of two-level atoms near Dicke's regime

G. Ferioli, A. Glicenstein, F. Robicheaux +3

We report the experimental observation of superradiant emission emanating from an elongated dense ensemble of laser cooled two-level atoms, with a radial extent smaller than the tr…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 22 cited

Fast and efficient preparation of 1D chains and dense cold atomic clouds

Antoine Glicenstein, Giovanni Ferioli, Ludovic Brossard +5

We report the efficient and fast () preparation of randomly loaded 1D chains of individual Rb atoms and of dense atomic clouds trapped in optical tweezers…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 102 cited

Storage and release of subradiant excitations in a dense atomic cloud

Giovanni Ferioli, Antoine Glicenstein, Loic Henriet +2

We report the observation of subradiance in dense ensembles of cold Rb atoms operating near Dicke's regime of a large number of atoms in a volume with dimensions smaller tha…

quant-ph2020★ 117 cited

Many-body Signatures of Collective Decay in Atomic Chains

Stuart J. Masson, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Luis A. Orozco +2

Fully inverted atoms placed at exactly the same location synchronize as they deexcite, and light is emitted in a burst (known as "Dicke's superradiance"). We investigate the role o…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 81 cited

Collective shift in resonant light scattering by a one-dimensional atomic chain

Antoine Glicenstein, Giovanni Ferioli, Nikola Sibalic +3

We experimentally study resonant light scattering by a one-dimensional randomly filled chain of cold two-level atoms. By a local measurement of the light scattered along the chain,…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 134 cited

Dilute dipolar quantum droplets beyond the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation

Fabian Böttcher, Matthias Wenzel, Jan-Niklas Schmidt +8

Dipolar quantum droplets are exotic quantum objects that are self-bound due to the subtle balance of attraction, repulsion and quantum correlations. Here we present a systematic st…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 29 cited

A fermionic impurity in a dipolar quantum droplet

Matthias Wenzel, Tilman Pfau, Igor Ferrier-Barbut

In this article we develop the framework to describe Bose-Fermi mixtures of magnetic atoms, focusing on the interaction of bosonic self-bound dipolar quantum droplets with a small…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 61 cited

Anisotropic Superfluid Behavior of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

Matthias Wenzel, Fabian Böttcher, Jan-Niklas Schmidt +4

We present transport measurements on a dipolar superfluid using a Bose-Einstein condensate of Dy-162 with strong magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. By moving an attractive laser…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 100 cited

Scissors mode of dipolar quantum droplets of dysprosium atoms

Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Matthias Wenzel, Fabian Böttcher +4

We report on the observation of the scissors mode of a single dipolar quantum droplet. The existence of this mode is due to the breaking of the rotational symmetry by the dipole-di…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 54 cited

Onset of a modulational instability in trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Matthias Wenzel, Matthias Schmitt +2

We explore the phase diagram of a finite-sized dysprosium dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in a cylindrical harmonic trap. We monitor the final state after the scattering length is…