Tag Paolo Pedri

Measuring densities of cold atomic clouds smaller than the resolution limit

We propose and demonstrate an experimental method to measure by absorption imaging the size and local column density of a cloud of atoms, even when its smallest dimension is smaller than the resolution of the imaging system.
arXiv:2105.10296 (2021) / Physical Review A 104, 033309 (2021)

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)

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)

Probing spin dynamics from the Mott insulating to the superfluid regime in a dipolar lattice gas

We analyze the spin dynamics of an out-of-equilibrium large spin dipolar atomic Bose gas in an optical lattice. We observe a smooth crossover from a complex oscillatory behavior to an exponential behavior throughout the Mott-to-superfluid transition.
arXiv:1507.04273 (2015) / Phys. Rev. A 93, 021603(R) (2016)