Thomas Bourdel

TL;DR: The production of matter-wave solitons in an ultracold lithium-7 gas opens possibilities for future applications in coherent atom optics, atom interferometry, and atom transport.

TL;DR: The observation of coexisting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and Fermi gas in a magnetic trap with a very small fraction of thermal atoms, with a one-dimensional character is reported.

TL;DR: Bose-Einstein condensation of weakly bound 6Li2 molecules in a crossed optical trap near a Feshbach resonance is reported and a molecule-molecule scattering length is measured, in good agreement with theory.

TL;DR: A conceptually new regime of cavity QED is achieved, in which all atoms occupy a single mode of a matter-wave field and couple identically to the light field, sharing a single excitation, which opens possibilities ranging from quantum communication to a wealth of new phenomena that can be expected in the many-body physics of quantum gases with cavity-mediated interactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, weakly-bound Li2 molecules from a degenerate two component Fermi gas were created by sweeping a magnetic field across a Feshbach resonance. But their transfer efficiency was not studied as a function of magnetic field and initial temperature.