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The Hulet group uses ultracold lithium atoms to explore quantum many-body phenomena. Using optical lattices, we confine atomic fermions to periodic potentials or to low-dimensions where strong correlations and emergent behavior arise. The extreme tunability of lattice parameters, density, and even geometry, fulfills the requirements of a versatile analog quantum simulator …. click to continue reading

Recent Publications

Thermal disruption of a Luttinger liquid:

Danyel Cavazos-Cavazos*, Ruwan Senaratne*, Aashish Kafle, and Randall G. Hulet, Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 3154 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023 Full Text

Spin-charge separation in a 1D Fermi gas with tunable interactions:

Ruwan Senaratne*, Danyel Cavazos-Cavazos*, Sheng Wang, Feng He, Ya-Ting Chang, Aashish Kafle, Han Pu, Xi-Wen Guan, and Randall G. Hulet, Science, 376, 6599 (2022) – Published 16 June 2022 PDF

Collisional Loss of One-Dimensional Fermions near a p-Wave Feshbach Resonance:

Ya-Ting Chang, Ruwan Senaratne, Danyel Cavazos-Cavazos, Randall G. Hulet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 263402 – Published 30 December 2020 PDF

Creation and Characterization of Matter-Wave Breathers:

De Luo, Yi Jin, Jason H. V. Nguyen, Boris A. Malomed, Oleksandr V. Marchukov, Vladimir A. Yurovsky, Vanja Dunjko, Maxim Olshanii, R. G. Hulet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183902 – Published 30 October 2020 PDF

Quantum Fluctuations of the Center of Mass and Relative Parameters of Nonlinear Schrödinger Breathers:

Oleksandr V. Marchukov, Boris A. Malomed, Vanja Dunjko, Joanna Ruhl, Maxim Olshanii, Randall G. Hulet, and Vladimir A. Yurovsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050405 – Published 28 July 2020 PDF

Methods for Preparing Quantum Gases of Lithium:

Randall G. Hulet, Jason H. V. Nguyen, and Ruwan Senaratne, Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 011101 (2020) PDF

Correlations generated from high-temperature states: Nonequilibrium dynamics in the Fermi-Hubbard model:

Ian G. White, Randall G. Hulet, and Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Physical Review A 100, 033612 (2019) PDF

Splitting of nonlinear-Schrödinger breathers by linear and nonlinear localized potentials:

Oleksandr V. Marchukov, Boris A. Malomed, Vladimir A. Yurovsky, Maxim Olshanii, Vanja Dunjko, and Randall G. Hulet, Physical Review A 99, 063623 (2019) PDF

Parametric Excitation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate: From Faraday Waves to Granulation:

J.H.V. Nguyen, M.C. Tsatsos, D. Luo, A.U.J. Lode, G.D. Telles, V.S. Bagnato, and R.G. Hulet, Physical Review X 9, 011052 (2019) PDF Supplemental Materials

Measurement of the Dynamical Structure Factor of a 1D Interacting Fermi Gas:

T. L. Yang, P. Grisins, Y. T. Chang, Z. H. Zhao, C. Y. Shih, T. Giamarchi, and R. G. Hulet, Physical Review Letters 121, 103001 (2018) PDF Supplemental Materials

Dissociation of One-Dimensional Matter-Wave Breathers due to Quantum Many-Body Effects:

Vladimir A. Yurovsky, Boris A. Malomed, Randall G. Hulet, and Maxim Olshanii, Physical Review Letters 119, 220401 (2017) PDF

For a recounting of the first discoveries of Bose-Einstein condensation

2025-02-01 :

Randy gets featured for the milestone achievement of the Bose-Einstein condensate. Read the news here!!

Melissa Revelle, PhD '16, Hulet group alum - Creating better quantum computers

2025-02-01 :

Melissa gets featured in Wiess School of Natural Science New! Read the news here!!

Jimmy received the Kevin Strecker Award!!

2024-05-03 :

Jimmy Yeh received the Kevin Strecker Award in recognition of his excellent performance on the qualifying exam and research proposal. Well done, Jimmy!

Eva has defended her PhD thesis!

2024-01-05 :

Congratulations to Eva, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Decoherence of Matter-Wave Breathers in Lithium Bose Einstein-Condensates”. We wish Eva continued success upon her future career at Booz Allen Hamilton!

Welcome Ellie, Mike and Sara!

2023-06-29 :

We welcome Ellie, Mike, and Sarah to our group during the summer.

Ellie is a senior student from Middlebury College, Vermont. She is working on the circuit and low-noise power supply for the p-wave superfluid experiment.

Mike is a Rice undergraduate student. He is building an AOM driver to be used for UV MOT narrow linewidth cooling of Lithium 6.

Sarah is a senior student at the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil. She studies the granulation of a BEC by modulating the scattering length using a Feshbach resonance.

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