Quantum Gases and Collective Phenomena

Dec 2021 - 'Quantum gases in optical boxes' published in Nat. Phys. 17, 1334 (2021) (pdf).
See also: Nature Physics Insight - Ultracold quantum technologies

June 2021 - 'Observation of first and second sound in a BKT superfluid' published in Nature 594, 191 (2021) (pdf).
See also: Accompanying News and Views by Sandro Stringari in Nature Physics

April 2021 - Zoran awarded an ERC Advanced Grant!

Feb 2021 - 'Many-body Decay of the Gapped Lowest Excitation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060402 (2021) (pdf).

Jan 2021 - 'Bidirectional dynamic scaling in an isolated Bose gas far from equilibrium' published in Nat. Phys. 17, 457 (2021) (pdf).

Nov 2019 - Richard Fletcher got (and accepted) an Assistant Professorship at MIT - congratulations!

Oct 2019 - 'Synthetic dissipation and cascade fluxes in a turbulent quantum gas' published in Science 366, 382 (2019) (pdf).

July 2019 - 'Can Three-Body Recombination Purify a Quantum Gas?' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020405 (2019) (pdf).

Feb 2019 - Zoran awarded the Marko Jaric Memorial Prize.

Feb 2019 - Timon Hilker awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship - congratulations!

Feb 2019 - 'From single-particle excitations to sound waves in a box-trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate' published in Phys. Rev. A 99, 021601(R) (2019) (pdf).

Dec 2018 - Christoph Eigen awarded a Research Fellowship at Jesus College - Congratulations!

Nov 2018 - Christoph Eigen wins the Abdus Salam Prize for his paper 'Universal prethermal dynamics of Bose gases quenched to unitarity' - Congratulations!

Nov 2018 - 'Universal prethermal dynamics of Bose gases quenched to unitarity' published in Nature 563, 221 (2018) (pdf).
See also: (1) News and Views by Michael Kolodrubetz
               (2) Research update at physicsworld.com
               (3) Highlighted as one of the core-physics breakthroughs
               of 2018 by Physics World

July 2018 - 'Elliptic flow in a strongly interacting normal Bose gas' published in Phys. Rev. A 98, 011601(R) (2018) (pdf).

June 2018 - 'Resonant-light diffusion in a disordered atomic layer' published in Phys. Rev. A 97, 061801(R) (2018) (pdf).

Apr 2018 - Rob Smith starts his Associate Professorship at Oxford.

Dec 2017 - 'Universal Scaling Laws in the Dynamics of a Homogeneous Unitary Bose Gas' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250404 (2017) (pdf).

Nov 2017 - 'Quantum Depletion of a Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190404 (2017) (pdf).

Oct 2017 - Zoran elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Oct 2017 - 'Observation of Efimov Molecules Created from a Resonantly Interacting Bose Gas' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 143401 (2017) (pdf).

Sept 2017 - Raphael Lopes got a CNRS position at Collège de France - Congratulations!

May 2017 - 'Quasiparticle Energy in a Strongly Interacting Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 210401 (2017) (pdf).

Apr 2017 - 'Effects of Interactions on Bose-Einstein Condensation' published in the book "Universal Themes of Bose-Einstein Condensation", edited by N. P. Proukakis, D. W. Snoke, and P. B. Littlewood (Cambridge University Press 2017) (pdf).

Mar 2017 - EPSRC Programme Grant on Designing out-of-equilibrium many-body quantum systems launched.

Mar 2017 - 'Homogeneous Atomic Fermi Gases' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123401 (2017) (pdf).

Jan 2017 - 'Two- and Three-body Contacts in the Unitary Bose Gas' published in Science 355, 377 (2017) (pdf).

Dec 2016 - 'Observation of Weak Collapse in a Bose-Einstein Condensate' published in Phys. Rev. X 6, 041058 (2016) (pdf).

Nov 2016 - 'Emergence of a Turbulent Cascade in a Quantum Gas' published in Nature 539, 72 (2016) (pdf).
See also: (1) News and Views by Brian P. Anderson
               (2) News article at Phys.org

July 2016 - Nir accepted the offer to start a new lab at Yale - Congratulations Yale!

July 2016 - Raphael Lopes awarded the Prix Daniel Guinier 2015 for his PhD thesis - Congratulations!

Mar 2016 - Raphael Lopes awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College - Congratulations!

Feb 2016 - Zoran awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Jan 2016 - Raphael Lopes awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship - Congratulations!

Jan 2016 - Richard Fletcher awarded a MIT Pappalardo Fellowship in Physics - Congratulations!

Dec 2015 - Zoran awarded the 2016 IoP-SFP Holweck Medal and Prize.

Oct 2015 - Zoran awarded an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship.

June 2015 - 'Connecting Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless and BEC Phase Transitions by Tuning Interactions in a Trapped Gas' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 255302 (2015), (pdf).

Apr 2015 - Richard Fletcher awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize - Congratulations!

Jan 2015 - 'Critical dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous Bose gas' published in Science 347, 167 (2015), (pdf).
See also: Perspective in Science by Gabriele Ferrari

June 2014 - 'Observing properties of an interacting homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate: Heisenberg-limited momentum spread, interaction energy, and free-expansion dynamics' published in Phys. Rev. A 89, 061604(R) (2014), (pdf).

Jan 2014 - 'Quantum Joule-Thomson Effect in a Saturated Homogeneous Bose Gas' published in Phys. Rev. Lett 112, 040403 (2014), (pdf).
See also: Physics Update in Physics Today

Sept 2013 - 'Stability of a Unitary Bose Gas' published in Phys. Rev. Lett 111, 125303 (2013), (pdf).

July 2013 - 'Effects of interactions on Bose-Einstein condensation of an atomic gas' published in the book "Physics of Quantum Fluids", edited by A. Bramati and M. Modugno (Springer 2013) (pdf).

July 2013 - 'BKT Physics with Two-Dimensional Atomic Gases' published in the book "40 Years of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Theory", edited by J.V. José (World Scientific 2013).

May 2013 - 'Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms in a Uniform Potential' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 200406 (2013) (pdf).
See also: (1) Accompanying Synopsis in Physics
               (2) Research update at physicsworld.com
               (3) Research Highlight in Nature
               (4) Editors' choice in Science

May 2013 - 'A Superheated Bose-condensed Gas' published in Nature Phys. 9, 271–274 (2013) (pdf).
See also: (1) News and Views by Jörg Schmiedmayer
               (2) News article at Phys.org

Jan 2013 - 'Persistent Currents in Spinor Condensates' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025301 (2013) (pdf).

Oct 2012 - 'Robust Digital Holography For Ultracold Atom Trapping' published in Sci. Rep. 2, 721 (2012) (pdf).

Sept 2012 - 'Condensation Dynamics in a Quantum-Quenched Bose Gas' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 105301 (2012) (pdf).

Aug 2012 - 'Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas' published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 095302 (2012) (pdf).
See also: accompanying Viewpoint (pdf) in Physics

July 2012 - 'Low-dimensional atomic Bose gases' by Z. Hadzibabic and M. Köhl published in the book "Ultracold Bosonic and Fermionic Gases", edited by A. Fetter, K. Levin, and D. Stamper-Kurn (Contemporary Concepts of Condensed Matter Science; Elsevier).

July 2012 - 'Quantized supercurrent decay in an annular Bose-Einstein condensate' published in Phys. Rev. A 86, 013629 (2012) (pdf).