Description

The central goal of this project is to set up a novel experimental platform that will substantially broaden the current expertise and capabilities of the CRC ISOQUANT. By employing highly magnetic dysprosium atoms, we will produce, manipulate, and probe ultracold gases in which conventional contact interactions are competing with strong dipole-dipole interactions. This is highly relevant due to the ubiquity of long-range interactions in nature and their central role in critical and universal behaviors. Based on this new experimental platform, we aim to investigate dynamics in settings where long-range interactions dominate, yielding the emergence of new kinds of structures and intrinsic scales and potentially revealing different classes of universality. With this project, we propose to develop tools to control and modulate the various key parameters dictating the system’s dynamics (gas geometry and dimensionality, dipolar as well as contact interaction strengths and their competition), as well as to allow high-resolution probing of the gas states.