We are glad to announce that Manuel Gerken has defended today his PhD thesis “Exploring p-wave Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Lithium and Lithium-Cesium Mixtures”. Congratulations to him and the best of luck for his future! Reference: PhD thesis: Exploring p-wave Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Lithium and Lithium-Cesium Mixtures
This month, our paper on “Floquet Hamiltonian engineering of an isolated many-body spin system” got published in Science! In this work, by periodically driving an isolated spin system, we changed a naturally given many-body Hamiltonian into a desired target form. Using a sequence of time-periodic microwave pulses, we change the Hamiltonian of our interacting Rydberg-spin system from a Heisenberg XX-model into an effective XYZ-model with tunable symmetry. As a consequence, the magnetization relaxation dynamic of the is drastically modified. The ability to engineering a wide range of Hamiltonians opens vast opportunities for implementing quantum simulation of non-equilibrium dynamics in a …
A warm welcome to our news PhDs, Micheal and Tobias. Michael starts his PhD after have concluded his master thesis in our group studying the relation between Efimov scenario and Fermi polarons. Tobias joins us from Karlsruhe where he did his master thesis on optical fiber-based micro resonators. Good luck to both!
A new project starts in the group. The Digital Twin group consists of two members, Anna Nitscke, who wants to start her master thesis in this project. And Carlos Brandl, who starts his PhD after being a Master student at the Rydberg team. Together with Prof. Ommer from the IWR the team tries to find new ways of creating digital twins for medicine. The project is part of the collaborative CLINIC5.1 project, lead by the University Hospital and funded by the BMWK.
Our group participated to the Physics Institute’s effort to create an emergency ventilator to support patients suffering from COVID-19. David, Manuel, Eleonora, Binh and Saba gave a large contribution to this project child of this year of pandemy. The design of the HDvent Emergency Ventilator has now been published and full details are available open source on the HDVent website and on github! Reference: D. Grimshandl et al., The HDvent Emergency Ventilator System, arXiv:2012.13005, or see our full list of publications For more information: Website: HDVentGithub: HDVent on Github
Lauriane Chomaz received her nomination as Junior Professor of Heidelberg University and will start setting up her group “Quantum Fluids” and her new lab on quantum dipolar gases of Dy atoms at the Physikalisches Institut. In parallel, she will also join the Mixtures team to explore the physics of quantum atomic mixtures with extreme mass imbalance! Good luck and welcome to our team, Lauriane! For more information: Website: Quantum Fluids
