Dr. Zoran Hadzibabic - Quantum Gases and Collective Phenomena
Announcement:
I will be moving to the
University of Cambridge in the Summer of 2007 to
start a new experimental research group working with
ultracold atoms. I am looking for a postdoc and
several (2-3) PhD students to join me in October 2007 or soon afterwards,
depending on their schedule. If you are interested please send a CV and a brief
description of academic and research background to
zoran@lkb.ens.fr. (PhD applicants should also check the departmental webpage
for proper application procedures and deadlines.)
Research Theme: We will be using nanokelvin quantum gases as highly controllable systems to study novel many-body physics. Topics of particular interest include superfluidity, quantum magnetism, non-equilibrium phenomena, and the effects of reduced dimensionality in both bosonic and fermionic systems. We are interested both in shedding new light on outstanding problems in conventional condensed matter systems (such as He superfluids and high-Tc superconductors) and in completely new collective phenomena which are of theoretical interest but have so far had no experimental realization.
To learn more about the research topics and the experimental techniques, you can take a look at a few representative recent publications and the links to my current and former groups at ENS and MIT, as well as contact me directly with any questions. For a very global outlook on ultracold atoms as "general quantum simulators" check out the editorial written by Mark Buchanan in Nature Physics 2, 495 (2006) (pdf).
Short CV
(longer version
here)
2007 - Lecturer in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
2003 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (Jean Dalibard's group)
1997 - 2003 PhD, MIT (Wolfgang Ketterle's group)
1993 - 1997 BA & MSci, University of Cambridge
Representative Publications
To get a flavour of the many-body physics we like to study you can check out the following papers:
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in a Trapped Atomic Gas
Z. Hadzibabic, P. Kruger, M. Cheneau, B. Battelier, and J. Dalibard,
Nature 441, 1118 (2006) (pdf).
Interference of an Array of Independent Bose-Einstein Condensates
Z. Hadzibabic, S. Stock, B. Battelier, V. Bretin, and J. Dalibard,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180403 (2004) (pdf).
Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules
M.W. Zwierlein, C.A. Stan, C.H. Schunck, S.M.F. Raupach, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, and W. Ketterle,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 250401 (2003) (pdf).
Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy of Ultracold Fermions
S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, M.W. Zwierlein, C.A. Stan, K. Dieckmann, C.H. Schunck, E.G.M. van Kempen, B.J. Verhaar, and W. Ketterle,
Science 300, 1723 (2003) (pdf).
In order to study new many-body physics we also keep thinking about ever better ways to create new, colder, bigger, better ultracold atomic systems. To get an idea of what this involves, check out these two papers:
Fiftyfold Improvement in the Number of Quantum Degenerate Fermionic Atoms
Z. Hadzibabic, S. Gupta, C.A. Stan, C.H. Schunck, M.W. Zwierlein, K. Dieckmann, and W. Ketterle,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 160401 (2003) (pdf).
Two-Species Mixture of Quantum Degenerate Bose and Fermi Gases
Z. Hadzibabic, C.A. Stan, K. Dieckmann, S. Gupta, M.W. Zwierlein, A. Gorlitz, and W. Ketterle,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 160401 (2002) (pdf).