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

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

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
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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...

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

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

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

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 ❄️⚛️🔦

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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

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...

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
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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

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!

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-...

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 📸

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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🏔️.

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

🌟 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!

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!

How many atoms make up a snowflake? ❄️

Our colleagues at Lithium Lab realized this animated Christmas card at the #quantum level with their unitary fermi gas (details in the replies)!
We join them in wishing everybody a nice holiday 🍾

More on #Li team: quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/li

The seminar can be attended remotely at: meet.google.com/bae-agrk-tzf

COLD ATOM WORKSHOP - Two-day meeting of the Cold Atom Physics community in Spain, Valencia, 30-31 enero 2025, forum.icmuv.uv.es/event/20/

Next week we'll have the pleasure to host Emanuele Distante from @icfonians.bsky.social for the first seminar of the FILM: FIrenze Light-Matter series!

Emanuele will present the talk "Quantum network with neutral atom arrays coupled to an optical cavity".

#QuantumSky #Atoms

Next summer, join us in Warsaw for the Workshop on Ultracold Molecules, co-organized with Simon Cornish and Candela Foundation! 🌍
Save the date to explore groundbreaking advances in molecular formation and applications in quantum physics, cold chemistry, and precision measurements. ✨