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Shelving spectroscopy of the strontium intercombination line

We present a spectroscopy scheme for the 7 kHz wide 689 nm intercombination line of strontium. We rely on shelving detection, where electrons are first excited to a metastable state by the spectroscopy laser before their state is probed using the broad transition at 461 nm.
arXiv:1910.11718 (2019) / J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 53 085005 (2020)

Dynamics of an itinerant spin-3 atomic dipolar gas in an optical lattice

In this work we report on our investigation of the quantum many-body dynamics of a large ensemble of bosonic magnetic chromium atoms with spin 𝑆=3 in a three-dimensional lattice as a function of lattice depth. Using extensive theory and experimental comparisons, we study the dynamics of the population of the different Zeeman levels and the total magnetization of the gas across the superfluid to the Mott insulator transition.
arXiv:1905.06123 (2019) / Phys. Rev. A 100, 033609 (2019)

Oscillations and decay of superfluid currents in a one-dimensional Bose gas on a ring

We demonstrate coherent manipulation of the nuclear degrees of freedom of ultracold ground-state strontium-87 atoms, thus We study the time evolution of a supercurrent imprinted on a one-dimensional ring of interacting bosons in the presence of a defect created by a localized barrier.
arXiv:1903.09229 (2019) / Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195301 (2019)

Cooling all external degrees of freedom of optically trapped chromium atoms using gray molasses

We report on a scheme to cool and compress trapped clouds of highly magnetic 52Cr atoms. This scheme combines sequences of gray molasses, which freeze the velocity distribution, and free evolutions in the (close to) harmonic trap, which periodically exchange the spatial and velocity degrees of freedom.
arXiv:1812.09177 (2018) / Phys. Rev. A 99, 023607 (2019)

Dissipative cooling of spin chains by a bath of dipolar particles

We consider a spin chain of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, interacting with each other by super-exchange interactions. We theoretically investigate the dissipative evolution of the spin chain when it is coupled by magnetic dipole–dipole interaction to a bath consisting of atoms with a strong magnetic moment.
arXiv:1803.10663 (2018) / New J. Phys. 20 073037 (2018)

Exploring out-of-equilibrium quantum magnetism and thermalization in a spin-3 many-body dipolar lattice system

We study the spin dynamics and approach towards local thermal equilibrium of a macroscopic ensemble of S = 3 chromium atoms pinned in a three dimensional optical lattice and prepared in a pure coherent spin state, under the effect of magnetic dipole–dipole interactions.
arXiv:1803.02628 (2018) / Nat. Commun. 10, 1714 (2019)