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Kolmogorov turbulence in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

February 25, 2025
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Mingshu Zhao, Junheng Tao
We investigated turbulence in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) using a minimally destructive, impurity injection technique analogous to particle image velocimetry in conventional fluids. Our approach transfers small regions of the BEC into a

Measurement resolution enhanced coherence for lattice fermions

February 25, 2025
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Hilary Hurst, Yik Teoh
Weak measurement enables the extraction of targeted information from a quantum system while minimizing decoherence due to measurement backaction. However, in many-body quantum systems backaction can have unexpected effects on wavefunction collapse. We

Quadrature amplitude modulation for electronic side and Pound-Drever-Hall locking

September 13, 2024
Author(s)
Juntian Tu, Alessandro Restelli, Tsz-Chun Tsui, Kevin Weber, Ian Spielman, James(Trey) Porto, Steven Rolston, Sarthak Subhankar
The Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique is routinely used to stabilize the frequency of a free-running laser to an ultralow expansion (ULE) reference cavity. The electronic sideband (ESB) locking scheme—a variant of the standard PDH locking scheme—helps

Stationary solitary waves in F = 1 spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

February 27, 2024
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Amilson Fritsch, Panayotis Kevrekidis, T. Mithun, G. Koutsokostas, D. Frantzeskakis
We consider solitonic excitations above the ground state of $F=1$ spin orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (SOBECs). The low energy properties of SOBECs in any of the three branches of the single particle dispersion relation can be described by

Observation of anisotropic superfluid density in an artificial crystal

October 18, 2023
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Mingshu Zhao, Junhent Tao
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the anisotropic speed of sound of an atomic superfluid (SF) Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice. Because the speed of sound derives from the superfluid density, implying that this density is

Weak-Measurement-Induced Heating in Bose-Einstein Condensates

June 23, 2023
Author(s)
Emine Altuntas, Ian Spielman
Ultracold atoms are an ideal platform for understanding system-reservoir dynamics of many-body systems. Here, we study quantum back-action in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, weakly interacting with a far-from resonant, i.e., dispersively interacting

Feedback cooled Bose-Einstein condensation: near and far from equilibrium

June 13, 2023
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Hilary Hurst, Evan Yamaguchi
Continuously measured interacting quantum systems almost invariably heat, causing loss of quantum coherence. Here we study Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to repeated weak measurement of the atomic density and describe several protocols for

An ultra-low noise bipolar current source

June 6, 2023
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Alessandro Restelli, Mingshu Zhao, Junheng Tao, Qiyu Liang
The precise control of dc magnetic fields is crucial in wide range of experimental platforms, from ultracold quantum gases, nuclear magnetic resonance, to precision measurements. In each of these cases the Zeeman effect causes quantum states to shift in

Quantum back-action limits in dispersively measured Bose-Einstein condensates

April 8, 2023
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Emine Altuntas
A fundamental tenet of quantum mechanics is that measurements change a system's wavefunction to that most consistent with the measurement outcome, even if no observer is present. Weak measurements produce only limited information about the system, and as a

Interference induced anisotropy in a two-dimensional dark state optical lattice

March 27, 2023
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Gediminas Juzeliunas, Edvinas Gvozdiovas
We describe a two-dimensional optical lattice for ultracold atoms with spatial structure below the diffraction limit created by a bichromatic optical standing wave. At every point in space these fields couple the internal atomic states in a three-level

Topological charge pumping with subwavelength Raman lattices

February 15, 2023
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Gediminas Juzeliunas, Domantas Burba, mantas Raciunas
Recent experiments demonstrated deeply subwavelength lattices using atoms with $N$ internal states Raman-coupled with lasers of wavelength $\lambda$. The resulting unit cell was $\lambda/2N$ in extent, an $N$-fold reduction compared to the usual $\lambda/2

Dark solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates: a dataset for many-body physics research

December 21, 2022
Author(s)
Amilson R. Fritsch, Shangjie Guo, Sophia Koh, Ian Spielman, Justyna Zwolak
We establish a dataset of over 1.6 x 10^4 experimental images of Bose–Einstein condensates containing solitonic excitations to enable machine learning (ML) for many-body physics research. About 33 % of this dataset has manually assigned and carefully

Dynamical Instability of 3d Stationary and Traveling Planar Dark Solitons

November 9, 2022
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Amilson R. Fritsch, T. Mithun, Panayotis Kevrekidis
Here we revisit the topic of stationary and propagating solitonic excitations in self-repulsive three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates by quantitatively comparing theoretical analysis and associated numerical computations with our experimental results

Floquet engineering topological Dirac bands

July 22, 2022
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Mingwu Lu, Amilson R. Fritsch, Graham Reid, Alina Pineiro Escalera
We experimentally realized a time-periodically modulated 1D lattice for ultracold atoms featuring a pair of linear bands, each associated with a Floquet winding number: a topological invariant. These bands are spin-momentum locked and almost perfectly