Coordinator: David Clément
Interns: Ekaterina Gradova, Géraud Dupuy
PhD students: Jan-Philipp Bureik, Maxime Allemand
Post-doc fellow: Raphael Jannin
Helium - Lattice
Helium - Lattice
We have built an apparatus to manipulate metastable Helium atoms (He*) loaded in optical lattices and to measure atom-atom correlations in many-body quantum states. The special properties of He*, its light mass and its large internal energy, enable an original and innovative detection method which can reconstruct the three dimensional positions of and correlations between individual atoms after a long time of free fall, providing direct access to momentum-space correlations.
News
April 2023: we have published a puzzling observation - for which we have yet no clue - in Phys. Rev. Lett.: algebraic tails 1/k^4 in the time-of-flight distributions of Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of impurities. Many thanks to our theory collaborators Pietro and Thierry!
March 2023: we published a Letter in Phys. Rev. Research. Here we exploit the single-atom-resolved detection method to measure correlations between up to 6 individual atoms! We characterize emblematic states like BECs and Mott insulators with unprecedented resolution, obtaining new information.
January 2023: Antoine received one of the Best PhD prize from the Doctoral School EDOM (link), congrats !!
October 2022: we are extremely pleased to congratulate Alain for receiving the 2022 Nobel prize in Physics with J. Clauser and A. Zeilinger!!!!
May 2022: Jan-Philipp is awarded a prize for his talk at the PhD days of the Doctoral school EDOM. Congrats!!
April 2022: We had a great scientific workshop to discuss the most recent advancements in the context of ultracold atom physics and related fields. Experimental and theoretical groups from Palaiseau (France) and Florence (Italy) research areas gathered to present their activities and discuss collaborations in topics ranging from metrology and entanglement to quantum transport and simulation. The scientific program and all the information here: quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/paf
April 2022: a new preprint about an old story arXiv:2204.10697 - study of the time-of-flight dynamics of Bose polarons.
November 2021: our observation of Bogoliubov's pairs at opposite momenta in the quantum depletion of an ensemble of interacting bosons is now published in Nature Physics, along with a News and Views by our Australian colleagues S. Hodgman and A. Truscott.
July 2021: we studied the 3D Mott transition in a trap by combining experimental/theoretical approaches, in collaboration with Tommaso Roscilde. We find traits of the critical behavior expected for the 3D XY universality class of the homogeneous Bose-Hubbard model. This work was published in Physical Review A and selected as Editors' suggestion!
May 2021: in a weakly-interacting Bose gas at equilibrium, quantum fluctuations induced by interactions should manifest as pairs of bosons with opposite momenta. We have directly observed these atom pairs, which are also the emblematic microscopic signature of the quantum depletion. Read our preprint here: arXiv:2105.05664 (2021).
January 2021: we investigated the preparation of quantum states of the 3D Bose-Hubbard model by comparing experimental data with Quantum Monte-Carlo calculation performed by T. Roscilde. From estimating the temperature and entropy of the lattice gases, we demonstrate the adiabatic preparation of states in the critical regime of the Mott phase transition. This is published in Physical Review Letters and selected as Editors' suggestion !
Publications
2023
Observation of 1/k^4-tails after expansion of Bose-Einstein Condensates with impurities, H. Cayla, P. Massignan, T. Giamarchi, A. Aspect, C. Westbrook, D. Clément, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 153401 (2023).
Full counting statistics of interacting lattice gases after an expansion: quantifying many-body coherence from atom correlations, G. Hercé, J.-P. Bureik, A. Ténart, A. Aspect, A. Dareau, D. Clément, Phys. Rev. Research 5, L012037 (2023).
Fermionic correlation functions from randomized measurements in programmable atomic quantum devices, P. Naldesi, A. Elben, A. Minguzzi, D. Clément, P. Zoller, B. Vermersch, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2023).
2021
Observation of pairs of atoms at opposite momenta in an equilibrium interacting Bose gas, A. Tenart, G. Hercé, J.-P. Bureik, A. Dareau, D. Clément, Nature Physics 17, 1364–1368 (2021). - see accompagnying News and Views.
Studying the low-entropy Mott transition of bosons in a three-dimensional optical lattice by measuring the full momentum-space density, G. Hercé, C. Carcy, A. Tenart, J.-P. Bureik, A. Dareau, D. Clément, T. Roscilde, Physical Review A 104, L011301 (2021) - selected as Editors' suggestion.
Certifying the adiabatic preparation of ultracold lattice bosons in the vicinity of the Mott transition, C. Carcy, G. Hercé, A. Tenart, T. Roscilde and D. Clément, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 045301 (2021) - selected as Editors' suggestion.
Position- and momentum-space two-body correlations in a weakly interacting trapped condensate, S. Butera, D. Clément, I. Carusotto, Phys. Rev A 103, 013302 (2021).
2020
Hanbury-Brown and Twiss bunching of phonons and of the quantum depletion in an interacting Bose gas, H. Cayla, S. Butera, C. Carcy, A. Tenart, G. Hercé, M. Mancini, A. Aspect, I. Carusotto, D. Clément, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165301 (2020).
Two-body collisions in the time-of-flight dynamics of lattice Bose superfluids, A. Tenart, C. Carcy, H. Cayla, T. Bourdel, M. Mancini, D. Clément, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013017 (2020) - selected as Editors' suggestion.
2019
Momentum-space atom correlations in a Mott insulator, C. Carcy, H. Cayla, A. Tenart, A. Aspect, M. Mancini, D. Clément, Phys. Rev. X 9, 041028 (2019).
Contact and sum-rules in a near-uniform Fermi gas at unitarity, C. Carcy, S. Hoinka, M. G. Lingham, P. Dyke, C. C. N. Kuhn, H. Hu, C. Vale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 203401 (2019).
2018
Tan's Contact for Trapped Lieb-Liniger Bosons at Finite Temperature, H. Yao, D. Clément, A. Minguzzi, P. Vignolo, L. Sanchez-Palencia Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220402 (2018).
Single-atom-resolved probing of lattice gases in momentum space, H. Cayla, C.Carcy, Q. Bouton, R. Chang, G. Carleo, M. Mancini, D. Clément, Phys. Rev. A 97 061609(R) (2018)
2017
Quantum depletion of a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate , R. Lopes, C. Eigen, N. Navon, D. Clément, R. P. Smith, Z. Hadzibabic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190404 (2017).
2016
Momentum-resolved observation of thermal and quantum depletion in an interacting Bose gas, R. Chang, Q. Bouton, H. Cayla, C. Qu, A. Aspect, C. I. Westbrook, D. Clément, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235303 (2016).
2015
Characterization of a detector chain using a FPGA-based Time-to-Digital Converter to reconstruct the three-dimensional coordinates of single particles at high flux, F. Nogrette, D. Heurteau, R. Chang, Q. Bouton, C. I. Westbrook, R. Sellem, D. Clément, Rev. Scient. Intrum. 86, 113105 (2015)
Fast production of Bose-Einstein condensates of metastable Helium, Q. Bouton, R. Chang, L. Hoendervanger, F. Nogrette, A. Aspect, C. I. Westbrook, D. Clément Phys. Rev. A 91 061402(R) (2015)
Dynamical structure factor of one-dimensional Bose gases: experimental signatures of beyond-Luttinger liquid physics, N. Fabbri, M. Panfil, D. Clément, L. Fallani, M. Inguscio, C. Fort and J.-S. Caux, Phys. Rev. A 91, 043617 (2015)
2014
Three-dimensional laser cooling at the Doppler limit, R. Chang, A.L. Hoendervanger, Q. Bouton, Y. Fang, T. Klafka, K. Audo, A. Aspect, C. I .Westbrook and D. Clément Phys. Rev. A 90 063407 (2014) [selected as Editors's suggestion]
2013
Influence of Gold Coating and Interplate Voltage on the Performance of Chevron Micro-Channel Plates for the Temporally and Spatially Resolved Single Particle Detection, A.L. Hoendervanger, D. Clément, A. Aspect, C.I. Westbrook, D. Dowek, Y. Picard and D. Boiron Rev. Scient. Instrum. 84 023307 (2013)
2012
An oscillator circuit to produce a radio-frequency discharge and application to metastable helium saturated absorption spectroscopy, F. Moron, A.L. Hoendervanger, M. Bonneau, Q. Bouton, A. Aspect, D. Boiron, D. Clément and C.I. Westbrook, Rev. Scient. Instrum. 83 044705 (2012)
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