Publication

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 …
Excitation modes of bright matter-wave solitons
Physical Review Letters 123, (2019)
We experimentally study the excitation modes of bright matter-wave solitons in a quasi-one-dimensional geometry. The solitons are …
Interferometric measurement of micro-g acceleration with levitated atoms
New Journal of Physics 21, 053028 (2019)
The sensitivity of atom interferometers is usually limited by the observation time of a free falling cloud of atoms in Earth’s …
Microwave preparation of two-dimensional fermionic spin mixtures
New Journal of Physics 21, (2019)
We present a method for preparing a single two-dimensional sample of a two-spin mixture of fermionic potassium in a single antinode of …
Note: a simple laser shutter with protective shielding for beam powers up to 1 W
Review of Scientific Instruments 89, (2018)
We present the design of an inexpensive and reliable mechanical laser shutter and its electronic driver. A camera diaphragm shutter …
Sub-Doppler laser cooling of 40K with Raman gray molasses on the D2 line
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 50, (2017)
Gray molasses is a powerful tool for sub-Doppler laser cooling of atoms to low temperatures. For alkaline atoms, this technique is …
Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas microscope
Nature Physics 11, 738–742 (2015)
Single-atom-resolved detection in optical lattices using quantum-gas microscopes has enabled a new generation of experiments in the …
Preparation and spectroscopy of a metastable Mott-insulator state with attractive interactions
Physical Review Letters 108, (2012)
We prepare and study a metastable attractive Mott-insulator state formed with bosonic atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice. …