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 …
Zooming in on ultracold matter: two superresolution microscopy methods can image the atomic density of ultracold quantum gases with nanometer resolution
Physics 12, 36–37 (2019)
Ultracold atoms are an exceptionally versatile platform to test novel physical concepts. They have greatly advanced our understanding …
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 …