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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 28

Today we'll have a seminar by our Alessio Ciamei, from #CrLi team, about ultracold molecules and new approaches to fundamental physics!

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 26

Check out the activities of our #YbTweezers team, recently starting their wonderful experiment aimed to realize a neutral atoms array of qubits ⚛️

More 👉 quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/yb-tweezer

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National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO) @cnr-ino.bsky.social · Mar 24

A team of researchers in Florence observed the formation of #quantum droplet arrays in ultra-cold atom mixtures. The phenomenon is caused by surface tension, leading to the breakup of atomic filaments into droplets. Read the study, published in Physical Review Letters: bit.ly/4c1nUF1
#CNR

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 24

Read the paper 👉 journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...

Ultracold $\mathrm{Li}\mathrm{Cr}$: A New Pathway to Quantum Gases of Paramagnetic Polar Molecules

Production of ultracold lithium-chromium (LiCr) molecules and thorough characterization of their properties establishes LiCr as a prime candidate for the realization of quantum gases of doubly polar m...

journals.aps.org

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 24

For the centenary of the birth of quantum mechanics, @apsphysics.bsky.social has selected this work on Ultracold #LiCr molecules for their #IYQ collection, among those highly interdisciplinary papers impacting the next decade of #Quantum science ⚛️

More 👉 prxquantumcollection.org

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 17

Looking for a PhD? Join us!
⏰ Application deadline is early June
Info here👉 quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/22-homepage-...

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 14

Yesterday, we had the pleasure to host our colleagues from CNR-Nanotec in #Lecce for this fantastic workshop on #Quantum Fluids of Light and Matter!
We hope this will start a fruitful scientific discussion merging the worlds of #photons and #atoms at the quantum scale ❄️⚛️🔦

@cnr-ino.bsky.social

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 10

A fresh publication from our colleagues at #KRb team focused on the observation of #Quantum droplet in a mixture has received the Editors' Suggestion 👏

More on #KRb 👉 quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/krb
Paper 👉 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.093401

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National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO) @cnr-ino.bsky.social · Mar 5

RAI News takes you inside the cutting-edge #quantum research at @cnr-ino.bsky.social, showing how our work is contributing to shaping the future of quantum technologies.
Watch the full feature here: bit.ly/41DnXTP
@lensqgases.bsky.social

Futuro24: l'anno della scienza e della tecnologia quantistica

Il 2025 è stato scelto dall'ONU per celebrare la meccanica quantistica e le sue applicazioni. Al CNR-INO di Firenze scopriamo innovazioni basate sulle strane leggi che governano il mondo dell'infinita...

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Mar 4

Celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technologies, #Rai featured @cnr-ino.bsky.social researchers, including our #Li team! They realized an atomic #YQST2025 logo to wish you a happy #Quantum year!

Watch the video 👉 tinyurl.com/YQSTlens

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 27

Tomorrow we'll start a series of tutorials on advanced techniques aimed to share useful ideas for our daily lab life.

The first topic will be #Laser locking, presented by Vladislav Gavryusev from our #SrRydberg team!

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 25

10 scholarships of 3000€ (50% awarded to female candidates) are available to support students willing to conduct a 6-month master's thesis internship at LENS between April and December 2025

🚩Applications by March 12, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET👉 quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/22-homepage-...

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Nat_urale @naturale.bsky.social · Feb 12

On 11/02, for the UN international day for women and girls in Science and the #YQST, we hosted the Global Women Breakfast promoted by @iupac.bsky.social!
Invited speakers:
Italian National CUG network
Costanza Toninelli (women for quantum ⚛️)
Lorenzo Gasparrini (philosopher)

Here some 📸

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 7

Congratulations to Giulio Biagioni and Nicolò Antolini awarded by the NQSTI for the Best Publication of 2024 🎉🎉

Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nicolò Antolini @nantolini.bsky.social · Feb 7

Honored to receive the NQSTI Prize for "2024 Best Publication" in #Quantum Science and Technology, alongside my former colleague G. Biagioni 🙌

In the paper we studied the Josephson effect in a #supersolid measuring its superfluid fraction!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 7

Many researchers at LENS are making impactful contributions to the NQSTI project, working across atomic, photonic, and ion platforms, as well as in quantum optics and quantum information.

Here's a picture from the NQSTI congress in Rome!

More about the project 👉 nqsti.it/

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 5

The second congress of the National #Quantum Science and Technology Institute (NQSTI) starting now in Rome, opening the italian #IYQ2025!

@unesco.org @cnr-ino.bsky.social

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 3

We achieve 40% single-atom occupancy, with atoms randomly distributed across the array. This work is a significant step towards the preparation of defect-free arrays of single atoms in optical tweezers, which will be the starting point for future quantum simulation experiments.

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 3

The video shows a sequence of experimental cycles, where the presence of atoms is detected via fluorescence imaging. After loading multiple atoms in each optical tweezer, the occupancy is reduced to either zero or one atom exploiting light-assisted collisions.

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Feb 3

Here's a bunch of single strontium atoms trapped in tweezers! Every shot in the video shows the fluorescence of atoms with 40% single-atom occupancy, a key step toward defect-free arrays for #Quantum simulations!

More on #SrRydberg team: quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/sr-rydberg

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Jan 31

Check this out! #YAO2025 is an exciting opportunity to meet leadi scientists in our field ⚛️❄️

Young Atom Opticians Conference 2025 @yao2025.bsky.social · Jan 31

🚀Big news! The #YAO2025 invited speaker lineup is now live on our website!🎉🎉 Check out the amazing researchers joining us in Innsbruck this July. Don't miss out—registration is still open! 🔗: yao.iqoqi.at
#QuantumScience #AtomOptics
@iqoqi.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Jan 29

New year, new cycle of #Quantum Gases seminars!
We'll start with Igor Ferrier-Barbut from Institut d'Optique and @cnrs.bsky.social, presenting a recent work about "Collective light scattering on a chain of single atoms".

Paper 👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2412.02541

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Toni Rubio Abadal @tonirb.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hi Bluesky! I'd like to begin my journey in this platform by advertising this school I am currently co-organizing:

The Winter School on Ultracold Quantum Many-body Systems ❄️⚛️ (16-22 Feb 2025) is open for registration! The school will take place at the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual🏔️.

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Jan 3

Our colleague G. Roati is organizing an ECT* workshop in the beautiful #Trento next May, together with P. Magierski, G. Wlazłowski (Warsaw University of Technology), and B. Haskell (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center).

Info and applications 👉 tinyurl.com/nonequilibrium

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Dec 31

🌟 Happy New Year from all of us! 🌟
Here’s to a year full of smiles, adventures, and mind-blowing #quantum breakthroughs! 🚀
Let’s make this year extraordinary!

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LENS Quantum Gases @lensqgases.bsky.social · Dec 20

Every frame of the video is a mosaic of 4x4 different experimental shots, in which ultracold lithium atoms are trapped in a tailored potential projected on the atomic cloud.

in every snowflake, of about 3 μm, there is an average of 500 atoms!

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