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Publications

Our papers, from the first strontium BEC to today.

Highlights

Continuous Bose–Einstein condensationNature 606, 683 (2022)The g factor of 87Sr at the ppm levelPhys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193001 (2025)Parallel assembly of neutral atom arrays with an SLMSciPost Phys. 19, 118 (2025)Continuous cavity-QED with an atomic beamPhys. Rev. A 110, 063721 (2024)Laser cooling to quantum degeneracyPhys. Rev. Lett. 110, 263003 (2013)Bose–Einstein condensation of strontiumPhys. Rev. Lett. 103, 200401 (2009)

All publications

Publications
  • Collimation of dense atomic beams by Swept Velocity Shelving
    Francesca Famà, Benedikt Heizenreder, Ananya Sitaram, Camila Beli, Robert J. C. Spreeuw, Stefan A. Schäffer, Florian Schreck
    arXiv:2607.28873 (2026)
    arXiv
  • A Robust Strontium Tweezer Apparatus for Quantum Computing
    Marijn Venderbosch, Rik van Herk, Zhichao Guo, Jesús del Pozo Mellado, Max Festenstein, Deon Janse van Rensburg, Ivo Knottnerus, Yu Chih Tseng, Alexander Urech, Robert Spreeuw, Florian Schreck, Rianne Lous, Edgar Vredenbregt, Servaas Kokkelmans
    AIP Advances 16, 075205 (2026) (with TU/e: we helped design their machine)
    DOI arXiv
  • Engineering Zeeman-manifold quintets using state-dependent light shifts in neutral atoms
    Benedikt Heizenreder, Bas Gerritsen, Katya Fouka, Robert J. C. Spreeuw, Florian Schreck, Arghavan Safavi Naini, Alexander Urech
    Phys. Rev. A 114, 042614 (2026)
    DOI arXiv
  • Continuous cloud position spectroscopy using a magneto-optical trap
    Benedikt Heizenreder, Ananya Sitaram, Sana Boughdachi, Andrew von Hörsten, Yan Xie, Andreas Brodschelm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Applied 25, L031003 (2026)
    DOI arXiv
  • Control of single spin-flips in a Rydberg atomic fractal
    Robin C. Verstraten, Ivo H. A. Knottnerus, Yu Chih Tseng, Alexander Urech, Tiago Santiago do Espirito Santo, Vinicius Zampronio, Florian Schreck, Robert J. C. Spreeuw, Cristiane Morais Smith
    arXiv:2509.03514 (2025)
    arXiv
  • Quasi-continuous sub-µK strontium source without a high-finesse cavity stabilized laser
    Sana Boughdachi, Benedikt Heizenreder, Ananya Sitaram, Erik Dierikx, Yan Xie, Sander Klemann, Paul Klop, Jeroen Koelemeij, Rafał Wilk, Florian Schreck, Andreas Brodschelm
    Phys. Rev. Applied 25, 034053 (2026)
    DOI arXiv
  • Confinement-induced resonances for the creation of quasi-1D ultra cold gases of alkali - alkaline-earth dimers
    Lorenzo Oghittu, Premjith Thekkeppatt, Nirav P. Mehta, Seth T. Rittenhouse, Klaasjan van Druten, Florian Schreck, Arghavan Safavi-Naini
    Phys. Rev. A 112, 043313 (2025)
    DOI arXiv
  • High-power RF amplifier for ultracold atom experiments
    Premjith Thekkeppatt, Edwin Baaij, Tijs van Roon, Klaasjan van Druten, Florian Schreck
    AIP Advances 16, 035134 (2026)
    DOI arXiv GitHub release of electronics design
  • Measurement of the g factor of ground-state 87Sr at the parts-per-million level using co-trapped ultracold atoms
    Premjith Thekkeppatt, Digvijay, Alexander Urech, Florian Schreck, Klaasjan van Druten
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193001 (2025)
    DOI arXiv IoP news item
  • Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry
    Antun Balaz, Diego Blas, Oliver Buchmueller, Sergio Calatroni, Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete, David Cerdeno, Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Fabio Di Pumpo, Goran Djordjevic, John Ellis et al.
    arXiv:2503.21366 (2025)
    arXiv
  • Parallel assembly of neutral atom arrays with an SLM using linear phase interpolation
    Ivo H. A. Knottnerus, Yu Chih Tseng, Alexander Urech, Robert J. C. Spreeuw, Florian Schreck
    SciPost Phys. 19, 118 (2025)
    DOI arXiv
  • Modeling of a continuous superradiant laser on the sub-mHz 1S0 → 3P0 transition in neutral strontium-88
    Swadheen Dubey, Georgy A. Kazakov, Benedikt Heizenreder, Sheng Zhou, Shayne Bennetts, Stefan Alaric Schäffer, Ananya Sitaram, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013292 (2025)
    DOI arXiv
  • Continuous cavity-QED with an atomic beam
    Francesca Famà, Sheng Zhou, Benedikt Heizenreder, Mikkel Tang, Shayne Bennetts, Simon B. Jäger, Stefan A. Schäffer, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 110, 063721 (2024)
    DOI arXiv
  • Coherent Three-Photon Excitation of the Strontium Clock Transition
    Junyu He, Benjamin Pasquiou, Rodrigo Gonzalez Escudero, Sheng Zhou, Mateusz Borkowski, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Research 7, L012050 (2025)
    DOI arXiv
  • Optical pumping of 5s4d 1D2 strontium atoms for laser cooling and imaging
    Jens Samland, Shayne Bennetts, Chun-Chia Chen, Rodrigo González Escudero, Florian Schreck, Benjamin Pasquiou
    Phys. Rev. Research 6, 013319 (2024)
    DOI arXiv
  • The path to continuous Bose-Einstein condensation
    Chun-Chia Chen, Shayne Bennetts, Florian Schreck
    Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 72, 361 (2023), Academic Press
    DOI
  • Active stabilization of kilogauss magnetic fields to the ppm level for magnetoassociation on ultranarrow Feshbach resonances
    Mateusz Borkowski, Lukas Reichsöllner, Premjith Thekkeppatt, Vincent Barbé, Tijs van Roon, Klaasjan van Druten, Florian Schreck
    Rev. Sci. Instrum. 94, 073202 (2023)
    DOI arXiv GitHub release of electronics design and software
  • Narrow-line imaging of single strontium atoms in shallow optical tweezers
    Alexander Urech, Ivo H. A. Knottnerus, Robert J. C. Spreeuw, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Research 4, 023245 (2022)
    DOI arXiv
  • Continuous Bose-Einstein condensation
    Chun-Chia Chen, Rodrigo González Escudero, Jiří Minář, Benjamin Pasquiou, Shayne Bennetts, Florian Schreck
    Nature 606, 683 (2022)
    DOI arXiv Research Briefing IoP news item
  • Solving correlation clustering with QAOA and a Rydberg qudit system: a full-stack approach
    Jordi R. Weggemans, Alexander Urech, Alexander Rausch, Robert Spreeuw, Richard Boucherie, Florian Schreck, Kareljan Schoutens, Jiří Minář, Florian Speelman
    Quantum 6, 687 (2022)
    DOI arXiv
  • The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies
    Emanuele Pelucchi, Giorgos Fagas, Igor Aharonovich, Dirk Englund, Eden Figueroa, Qihuang Gong, Hannes Hübel, Jin Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, Nobuyuki Matsuda, Jian-Wei Pan, Florian Schreck, Fabio Sciarrino, Christine Silberhorn, Jianwei Wang, Klaus D. Jöns
    Nature Reviews Physics 4, 194 (2022)
    DOI Openly accessible version
  • Laser cooling for quantum gases
    Florian Schreck, Klaasjan van Druten
    Nature Physics 17, 1296 (2021), Review Article
    DOI arXiv Openly accessible version UvA news item
  • Towards an Active Optical Clock using an Optical Conveyor within a Ring Cavity
    Georgy Kazakov, Swadheen Dubey, Francesca Famà, Sheng Zhou, Camila Beli Silva, Stefan Alaric Schäffer, Shayne Bennetts, Florian Schreck
    Proceedings of EFTF-IFCS 2021, 7185 (2021)
    DOI IEEE Xplore
  • A steady-state magneto-optical trap of fermionic strontium on a narrow-line transition
    Rodrigo González Escudero, Chun-Chia Chen, Shayne Bennetts, Benjamin Pasquiou, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033159 (2021)
    DOI arXiv figshare: raw data and analysis tools
  • State selective cooling of SU(N) Fermi-gases
    Aaron Merlin Müller, Miklós Lajkó, Florian Schreck, Frédéric Mila, Jiří Minář
    Phys. Rev. A 104, 013304 (2021)
    DOI arXiv
  • Microscope objective for imaging atomic strontium with 0.63 micrometer resolution
    Ivo H. A. Knottnerus, Sergey Pyatchenkov, Oleksiy Onishchenko, Alexander Urech, Florian Schreck, Georgios A. Siviloglou
    Optics Express 28, 11106 (2020)
    DOI arXiv
  • Continuous guided strontium beam with high phase-space density
    Chun-Chia Chen, Shayne Bennetts, Rodrigo González Escudero, Benjamin Pasquiou, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Applied 12, 044014 (2019)
    DOI arXiv
  • SAGE: A Proposal for a Space Atomic Gravity Explorer
    G. M. Tino, A. Bassi, G. Bianco, K. Bongs, P. Bouyer, L. Cacciapuoti, S. Capozziello, X. Chen, M. L. Chiofalo, A. Derevianko et al.
    Eur. Phys. J. D 73, 228 (2019)
    DOI arXiv
  • The frequency of the ultranarrow 1S0-3P2 transition in 87Sr
    Oleksiy Onishchenko, Sergey Pyatchenkov, Alexander Urech, Chun-Chia Chen, Shayne Bennetts, Georgios A. Siviloglou, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 99, 052503 (2019)
    DOI arXiv
  • Visualising the connection between edge states and the mobility edge in adiabatic and non-adiabatic topological charge transport
    Mariya A. Lizunova, Florian Schreck, Cristiane Morais Smith, Jasper van Wezel
    Phys. Rev. B 99, 115114 (2019)
    DOI arXiv
  • Sisyphus Optical Lattice Decelerator
    Chun-Chia Chen, Shayne Bennetts, Rodrigo González Escudero, Florian Schreck, Benjamin Pasquiou
    Phys. Rev. A 100, 023401 (2019)
    DOI arXiv
  • The RbSr 2Σ+ ground state investigated via spectroscopy of hot & ultracold molecules
    Alessio Ciamei, Jacek Szczepkowski, Alex Bayerle, Vincent Barbé, Lukas Reichsöllner, Slava M. Tzanova, Chun-Chia Chen, Benjamin Pasquiou, Anna Grochola, Pawel Kowalczyk, Wlodzimierz Jastrzebski, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 26221 (2018)
    DOI arXiv
  • Observation of Feshbach resonances between alkali and closed-shell atoms
    Vincent Barbé, Alessio Ciamei, Benjamin Pasquiou, Lukas Reichsöllner, Florian Schreck, Piotr S. Żuchowski, Jeremy M. Hutson
    Nature Physics 14, 881 (2018)
    DOI arXiv Open-access, view-only version (SharedIt) Nature Physics News & Views: Quo vadis now, cold molecules? Press release: Quantum LEGO: building ultracold molecules
  • Observation of Bose-enhanced photoassociation products
    Alessio Ciamei, Alex Bayerle, Benjamin Pasquiou, Florian Schreck
    EPL 119, 46001 (2017)
    DOI arXiv
  • Steady-State Magneto-Optical Trap with 100-Fold Improved Phase-Space Density
    Shayne Bennetts, Chun-Chia Chen, Benjamin Pasquiou, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223202 (2017)
    DOI arXiv Press release: Towards a continuous atom laser In the media: physicsworld
  • Efficient production of long-lived ultracold Sr2 molecules
    Alessio Ciamei, Alex Bayerle, Chun-Chia Chen, Benjamin Pasquiou, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 96, 013406 (2017) (Highlighted as Editor's Suggestion by Phys. Rev. A.)
    DOI arXiv
  • Fermi-Bose mixture in mixed dimensions
    M. A. Caracanhas, F. Schreck, C. Morais Smith
    New J. Phys. 19, 115011 (2017)
    DOI arXiv
  • Tapered amplifier laser with frequency-shifted feedback
    A. Bayerle, S. Tzanova, P. Vlaar, B. Pasquiou, F. Schreck
    SciPost Phys. 1, 002 (2016)
    DOI arXiv
  • Itinerant ferromagnetism in 1D two-component Fermi gases
    Yuzhu Jiang, D. V. Kurlov, Xi-Wen Guan, F. Schreck, G. V. Shlyapnikov
    Phys. Rev. A 94, 011601(R) (2016)
    DOI arXiv
Publications from our time at Innsbruck
  • Bose-Einstein Condensation of Strontium
    Simon Stellmer, Meng Khoon Tey, Bo Huang, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 200401 (2009)
    DOI arXiv Accompanying Viewpoint: Physics 2, 94 (2009) In the media: physicsworld In the media: 2physics
  • Double-degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture of strontium
    Meng Khoon Tey, Simon Stellmer, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 82, 011608(R) (2010)
    DOI arXiv
  • Bose-Einstein condensation of 86Sr
    Simon Stellmer, Meng Khoon Tey, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 82, 041602(R) (2010)
    DOI arXiv
  • Detection and manipulation of nuclear spin states in fermionic strontium
    Simon Stellmer, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 84, 043611 (2011)
    DOI arXiv
  • Creation of ultracold Sr2 molecules in the electronic ground state
    Simon Stellmer, Benjamin Pasquiou, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 115302 (2012)
    DOI arXiv
  • Long-Range Interacting Many-Body Systems with Alkaline-Earth-Metal Atoms
    B. Olmos, D. Yu, Y. Singh, F. Schreck, K. Bongs, I. Lesanovsky
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 143602 (2013)
    DOI arXiv
  • Production of quantum-degenerate strontium gases
    Simon Stellmer, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 87, 013611 (2013)
    DOI arXiv
  • Laser cooling to quantum degeneracy
    Simon Stellmer, Benjamin Pasquiou, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 263003 (2013) (This work has been selected as one of the top-10 breakthroughs in physics 2013 by the Physics World magazine.)
    DOI arXiv In the media: physicsworld In the media: 2physics Physics World press release Physics World article ORF
  • Quantum degenerate mixtures of strontium and rubidium atoms
    Benjamin Pasquiou, Alex Bayerle, Slava Tzanova, Simon Stellmer, Jacek Szczepkowski, Mark Parigger, Rudolf Grimm, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 88, 023601 (2013)
    DOI arXiv
  • Degenerate quantum gases of strontium
    Simon Stellmer, Florian Schreck, Thomas C. Killian
    Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules, Volume 2, Chapter 1 (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2014)
    DOI arXiv Book
  • Reservoir spectroscopy of 5s5p 3P2 - 5snd 3D1,2,3 transitions in strontium
    Simon Stellmer, Florian Schreck
    Phys. Rev. A 90, 022512 (2014)
    DOI arXiv

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