Universal dipolar scattering and spin-orbit coupling in ultracold gases of dysprosium
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Ultracold atomic gases are powerful systems for studying and simulating quantum phenomena, and the magnetic lanthanide atom dysprosium is a promising atom for new areas of quantum simulation owing in part to its large magnetic moment, large spin, and variety of optical transitions. This thesis presents several studies with ultracold dysprosium. We have charac- terized both elastic and inelastic scattering properties of dysprosium. In bosonic dys- prosium we measured the s-wave scattering lengths via cross-dimensional relaxation and directly imaged the dipolar differential cross section. In fermionic dysprosium we have cooled identical fermions to quantum degeneracy via elastic dipolar collisions. We have also measured inelastic dipolar collision rates in bosonic and fermionic dys- prosium with excellent agreement with rates predicted under the first Born approxi- mation, revealing universal scattering behavior. In particular, we demonstrated the fermionic suppression of inelastic dipolar collisions. Finally, we have shown dyspro- sium to be a promising candidate for fermionic spin-orbit coupling studies due to gas lifetimes as long as 400 ms.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Burdick, Nathaniel Quinn |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Applied Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Lev, Benjamin |
| Thesis advisor | Lev, Benjamin |
| Thesis advisor | Ganguli, Surya, 1977- |
| Thesis advisor | Suzuki, Yuri, (Applied physicist) |
| Advisor | Ganguli, Surya, 1977- |
| Advisor | Suzuki, Yuri, (Applied physicist) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nathaniel Quinn Burdick. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Applied Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Nathaniel Quinn Burdick
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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