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 #CNR

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 ❄️⚛️🔦 @cnr-ino.bsky.social

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

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 @lensqgases.bsky.social

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! @unesco.org @cnr-ino.bsky.social

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 1/🧵

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!

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

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. ✨

Our M. Zaccanti from #CrLi teamed up with colleagues at @iqoqi.bsky.social and Pitaevskii BEC Center for this fantastic review on #ultracold #quantum mixtures! Have a look 👀 Article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42254-024-00773-6 News 👉 quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/crli/159-crli-review

Why just one MOT when you can have two? In Chromium-Lithium lab 6Li and 53Cr are captured in Magneto Optical Traps (MOT). Both are fermionic isotopes, and they are combined to investigate the physics of #ultracold fermionic mixtures. More on #CrLi team: quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/crli

Very fitting view of Brunelleschi's dome from the top floor as well!

The CNR-INO symposium 2024 starting at the beautiful Museo degli Innocenti 🚀

Tomorrow the annual CNR-INO symposium will take place in #Florence! Many researcher from LENS will join the conversation with contributions ranging from ultracold quantum gases to photonics. Let's shape the future of #optics together!🔎

Later today we'll host the seminar by Alberto Biella from Pitaevskii BEC Center, CNR-INO and Università di Trento "Experiments on waveguide QED with nanofibers" Thanks to LENS, Unifi Fisica and Luca Celardo for organizing this seminar.

As a brand new lab, we are particular proud to share pictures from our first visitor Prof. Luis Orozco from @univofmaryland.bsky.social Thank you, Luis for the great discussions! #🔆-⚛️ interaction #QuantumPhysics #CavityQED @lensqgases.bsky.social

A new preprint out for our #Yb team "Measuring Hall voltage and Hall resistance in an atom-based quantum simulator" 🙌 Well done to @leonardofallani.bsky.social and coworkers! Read more on Yb lab: quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/yb Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.09744

Unveiling our new dysprosium machine under development at @lensqgases.bsky.social! This next-generation experiment will side with the one in Pisa looking for beautiful physics with dipolar atoms ⚛️🧲 In the picture: inner view of the science chamber featuring @parsek-17.bsky.social, P.L. and G.F. 👏

Hello (quantum) world! We are a network of research groups exploring #ultracold #atoms, #ions, #molecules & #mixtures, delving into fundamental physics, condensed matter & quantum simulation. Follow us for updates on fundamental physics and cutting-edge research! 🚀⚛️ #QuantumPhysics #QuantumBlueSky