Experimental Quantum Optics
and Photonics Group


Latest News

Instabilities of driven matter waves with interactions
We studied the stability of a Bosonic quantum gas in a 1D optical lattice with periodic driving, Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033024 (2023).
Commensurate and incommensurate 1D interacting quantum systems
We use dynamically varying microscopic light potentials in a quantum-gas microscope to study commensurate and incommensurate 1D systems of interacting bosonic atoms in an optical lattice arXiv:2305.03794.
Accurate holographic light potentials using pixel crosstalk modelling
Accurate holographic light potentials using pixel crosstalk modelling Scientific Reports 13, 3252 (2023).
New team member
Omar Moutamani joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome Omar!
New team member
New team member
Robbie Cruickshank joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome Robbie!
New team member

Recent publications

A comparative study of deconvolution techniques for quantum-gas microscope images
New Journal of Physics (2023)
Abstract Quantum-gas microscopes are used to study ultracold atoms in optical lattices at the single-particle level. In these system …
Instabilities of interacting matter waves in optical lattices with Floquet driving
Physical Review Research 5, 033024 (2023)
Accurate holographic light potentials using pixel crosstalk modelling
Scientific Reports 13, (2023)
Arbitrary light potentials have proven to be a valuable and versatile tool in many quantum information and quantum simulation …
Floquet solitons and dynamics of periodically driven matter waves with negative effective mass
Physical Review Letters 127, (2021)
We experimentally study the dynamics of weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates of cesium atoms in a 1D optical lattice with a …
Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with a linear interaction gradient
Physical Review Letters 125, (2020)
We study the evolution of a collisionally inhomogeneous matter wave in a spatial gradient of the interaction strength. Starting with a …