Cold atoms

• In July, Hector Letellier and Alvaro de Melo left the team after their successful PhD defense (see below).
• At the end of August, Juan Capella left the team to go back at Recife for another post-doc in Felinto's group.
• At the end of September, Antoine Glicenstein left to start a new post-doc in Berlin in Rauschenbeutel's group.

Good luck to all of them!
Fortunatelly, we've also got many arrivals (all October 1^st).

• Sarah Tolila is starting her PhD on the intensity interferometry project (ANR project I2C & ERC project IC4Stars).
• Adam Gabteni is starting his PhD on the hot vapor project (ANR project WANOO).
• Naudson Matias is starting his PhD on the ytterbium experiment (ANR project LILOA).
• Apoorav Singh Deo is starting his PhD on the rubidium 1 experiment.
• Finally, Ana Cipris, former PhD student of our group and current post-doc at Sao Carlos (Brazil), is going to work on Rb1 as well with a six-month FAPESP fellowship.

Welcome to all of them!

We're organizing a workshop on stellar intensity interferometry at Porquerolles in Septembre 2024. Check out the webpage of the event to know more!

The two graduate students who built the Yb experiment have defended their thesis within three weeks. Hector Letellier's PhD thesis is entitled "Piégeage magnéto-optique de l'ytterbium sur la transition 1S₀ -> 1P₁" and Alvaro de Melo's "Refroidissement laser de l’ytterbium sur la ligne d’intercombinaison pour des expériences sur la localisation de la lumière". Congratulation and big thank to them. They both continue as postdocs, Hector in Berlin and Alvaro in Basel. Good luck!

We have two open PhD positions to work on our cold-atom experiments. The first one will take place on Rb1, with Mathilde Hugbart: see this announcement. The second one will be on the new Ytterbium experiment, with Robin Kaiser and Raphaël Saint-Jalm: this announcement. Please contact us in you're interested.

In January 2024, Daniel Benedicto Orenes has joined the ytterbium team with a Marie Curie Fellowship. Welcome Daniel!

On Mathilde's experiment "Rb1", one post-doc is leaving and another one has arrived. Hodei Eneriz will join the French quantum-computing Pasqal, and Juan Capella has joined our team after graduating from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil). Good luck to both of you!

• At the end of July, Nolan Matthews left our team to go back to the US. Thanks a lot Nolan for your work, you have been the main driving force on the I2C project for more than two years. We wish you good luck for your career.
• At the end of August, Romain Bachelard and Dilleys Ferreira left to go back to Brazil. That was very nice to have you guys.
• On September 1^st, Raphael Saint-Jalm , assistant professor at UCA, joined our team as a permanent member. Welcome Raphael!

We open a postdoc position to work on the I2C project, please see the announcement.

Two events this month:
First, Pierre Lassègues successfully defended his thesis entitled "Étude des corrélations d'intensité dans la lumière diffusée par un gaz d'atomes froids". Congratulations and good luck for the following of your career, with a post-doc in Leuven (Belgium).
Second, we have been joined by Antoine Glicenstein as a post-doc, to work on the Ytterbium experiment. Antoine is already an expert in collective effects in light-atom interaction with a PhD thesis in the group of Antoine Browaeys at the Intsitut d'Optique. Good luck for your new project!

In 2023 we'll hire an assistant professor (Maitre de Conference). The official announcement can be found here. Please contact Robin Kaiser if you're interested.

Two new postdocs have started this month. Dilleys Ferreira da Silva is joining the team working on the QuaCor project with Mathilde Hugbart, and Romain Caldani is joining the team working on the PACE-IN / 1DOrder projects with William Guerin. Welcome!

The project 1DOrder aims at studying and using cold atomic samples having a 1D ordering for quantum-optical technolgies, especially quantum memories or quantum gates. It is a collaborative project between Etienne Brion, PI, doing theory at LCAR (Toulouse), Julien Laurat (co-PI) & Alban Urvoy, doing experiments with a chain of single atoms trapped near a nanofiber at LKB (Paris), and William Guerin (co-PI) of our group, doing experiments on cold atoms trapped in a 1D lattice.

Lukáš Slodička, researcher in Olomouc University, visited our group for a few weeks in the framework of the PACE-IN project and UCA's wave complexity initiative. He's collaborating with Mathilde on the measurement of intensity-field correlations.
 

Pierre applied for a grant supported by the Région PACA for young innovative doctors. His project for a quantum simulator with hot atomic vapors has been selected. Congratulations!

On March 7th, Ana Cipris successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Long-lived collective modes of light in cold atoms: experimental and numerical studies on subradiance and Anderson localization". The committee manifested its great interest by asking high-level questions for 2h! Ana will soon start a post-doc in Zagreb. Good luck for the following of your career!

After graduating from the University of Bordeaux, Hodei Eneriz is joining us as a post-doc. He's going to work on Rb1 with Martial, Pierre and Mathilde. Romain Bachelard is a long-time collaborator and he's going to be with us as invited researcher for one year. Welcome to both of you!

We have two open postdoc positions, for the Ytterbium and the Rubidium 2 experiments. See the announcement. EDIT: The positions have now been filled. But don't hesitate to contact us at any time for post-docs or PhD thesis, we may have something for you!

This is an on-line event called "Cold-atom On-Line Meeting" (CoOLMe 2021) and it takes place from November 17th to 19th. See the dedicated website.

Pierre's work on "Quantum fluids of light in hot atomic vapors" has been greatly appreciated by the committee. Pierre will remain in our group for some more time on an engineering project to make his experiment more compact, robust and automated, in view of future applications.

Mathilde and Robin, with Romain Bachelard, have organized the 2021 workshop on Collective Scattering of Light (CoScaLi) on the beautiful island of Porquerolles. This hybrid event (both on-line and in-person) has been a success!

After several months of interruption and a lot of data loss (due to the fire of the data center), our cold-atom web page is finally back and can be updated again. But this is still a work in progress...