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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 51: Ultra-cold Atoms, Ions and BEC III (joint session A/Q)
Q 51.7: Talk
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 12:45–13:00, N 1
Towards a dual-species dipolar quantum gas microscope — •Gerard Solà Berga1, Clemens Ulm1,2, Eva Casotti1,2, Andrea Litvinov1, Manfred J. Mark1,2, and Francesca Ferlaino1,2 — 1Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria — 2Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have been established as a powerful toolbox for quantum simulation, enabling the study of many-body physics and strongly correlated condensed matter. In the last decade, single-site imaging and addressing of these lattice-confined atoms has been achieved by the experimental realization of quantum gas microscopes. Until 2023, quantum gas microscopes utilized atomic species with a negligible magnetic moment, which interact exclusively via short-range contact interaction. The addition of long-range interactions in a lattice leads to new exotic phases of matter, such as the Haldane insulator, an interaction-induced topological phase.
Here, we report on the progress towards a quantum gas microscope utilizing the highly dipolar species erbium and dysprosium, which will allow the study of both single- and dual-species physics on the single-atom level. With this new setup, we aim to probe extended Bose- and Fermi-Hubbard models, entering a new quantum simulation framework, beyond the capabilities of conventional short-range interaction setups.
Keywords: Quantum simulation; Ultracold gases; Long-range interactions; Dysprosium; Bose Einstein Condensate