Trapping Ultracold Dysprosium: A Highly Magnetic Gas for Dipolar Physics
Trapping Ultracold Dysprosium: A Highly Magnetic Gas for Dipolar Physics
Ultracold dysprosium gases, with a magnetic moment 10 times that of alkali atoms and equal only to terbium as the most magnetic atom, are expected to exhibit a multitude of fascinating collisional dynamics and quantum dipolar phases, including quantum liquid crystal physics. We report the first laser cooling and trapping …