Short bio
Dr. Rianne S. Lous received a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Natural Sciences and Physics and Astronomy at Radboud University, Nijmegen the Netherlands. Next, she moved to the University of Groningen, Netherlands, where she received her Master鈥檚 (with honors) in Nanoscience which included an internship abroad at ITAMP (USA). After this, Rianne pursued a Ph.D. and a first PostDoc in and There, Rianne worked with ultracold quantum gases of lithium and potassium and carried out research on impurity physics, atom-dimer mixtures, and degenerate Bose-Fermi mixtures.
In 2019, as a PostDoc, she joined , where she worked with Yb+ ions in a bath of lithium atoms. This research was supported by a from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. There, she looked into molecular ion formation, ion sensing and buffer gas cooling.
Since 2022, she joined 黑料福利网 as an assistant professor in the coherence and quantum technology group at the applied physics department and Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute. Her experimental work focuses on building and developing quantum- simulators and computers with neutral atoms and trapped ions. She leads the SIntAQS: Sensing Interactions in Atomic Quantum Systems laboratory and is involved in the Rydberg Atom Quantum Computing efforts, which focuses on developing a scalable quantum computing platform based on Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers.
Title
Sensing Interactions in atomic quantum systems
Abstract
Experiments that cool, trap, and control atoms, ions, and molecules provide an unique testbed for probing few- and many-body physics. In our 黑料福利网 lab (www.tue.nl/sintaqs), we are developing a novel quantum simulator which is an hybrid mixture of trapped Ytterbium ions and dipolar Dysprosium atoms. Hybrid ion-atom systems combine the well-controllable platforms of trapped ions and ultracold quantum gases and link them together by the intermediate-range ion-atom interaction. Our new combination adds dipolar physics to the bath, which can be explore with the ion as a probe. In this talk, I will discuss the newly build experimental setup which is designed to characterize and control the interactions between the atoms and ions. This lies at the basis of opportunities for buffer gas cooling, quantum simulation of few- and many-body systems as well as for state-to-state quantum chemistry [1].
[1] Lous and Gerritsma, AAMOP 71, 65 (2022)