Publications & Theses
Our papers and theses, from the first strontium BEC to today.
PhD theses
Camila Beli Silva
Cavity-atom interactions in a thermal strontium beam - Development of a simple apparatus for quantum metrology
PhD thesis (Jun. 2025)
Francesca Famà
Waltz of the Atoms: Collective Behaviors in a Sr Stream
PhD thesis (Mar. 2025)
Sheng Zhou
Towards a continuous active optical clock based on superradiant lasing using strontium
PhD thesis (Dec. 2024)
Premjith Thekkeppatt
A tale of two species: ultracold rubidium and strontium - Stable mixtures, open-shell molecules and precision measurement
PhD thesis (Oct. 2024)
Alex Urech
Single strontium atoms in optical tweezers
PhD thesis (Apr. 2023)
Rodrigo González Escudero
Quantum gases are forever: Achieving continuous Bose-Einstein condensation
PhD thesis (Jun. 2022)
Vincent Barbé
Ultracold RbSr: Optical and magnetic spectroscopy, Feshbach resonances and molecular structure
PhD thesis (Feb. 2021)
Sergei Piatchenkov
A versatile ultracold strontium apparatus: from construction to new tools for quantum simulation
PhD thesis (Jun. 2020)
Oleksiy Onishchenko
Ultracold atomic gases of strontium: production and narrow-line spectroscopy
PhD thesis (Feb. 2020)
Shayne Bennetts
1000 times closer to a continuous atom laser: Steady-state strontium with unity phase-space density
PhD thesis (Oct. 2019)
Alex Bayerle
Ultracold strontium and rubidium: mixtures, quantum gases and molecules
PhD thesis (Mar. 2017)
Florian Schreck
Mixtures of ultracold gases: Fermi sea and Bose-Einstein condensate of lithium isotopes
PhD thesis (Jan. 2002), Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (Florian's own thesis, from before this lab existed)
Master theses
- A High-Resolution Microscope Objective for a Rb-Sr Ultracold Quantumgas ExperimentNoah WachMaster thesis (Oct. 2024)
- Towards a new parent laser for strontium experimentsLluis de Miguel BlascoMaster thesis (Oct. 2024)
- Building a Sr Clock LaserZe-Yuan ZhangMaster thesis (Aug. 2021)
- A strontium Rydberg laser for quantum simulation with tweezer arraysThies PlassmannMaster thesis (Jul. 2021)
- Pumping the Zeeman slowerJens SamlandMaster thesis (Apr. 2019)
- Tweezer machine for Sr atoms using a homebuilt microscope objective from commercial lensesIvo KnottnerusMaster thesis (Aug. 2018)
- Narrow-linewidth ECDLs for Atomic PhysicsTim van LeentMaster thesis (Feb. 2017)
- Building a Strontium Clock LaserFlorian VoglMaster thesis (Jun. 2013)
- Linewidth Reduction of a Diode Laser by Optical Feedback for Strontium BEC ApplicationsBo HuangMaster thesis (Nov. 2009)
Bachelor theses & internship reports
- Alkali - alkaline earth mixtures in optical lattice potentialsSimon LepleuxInternship report (Jul. 2023)
Other resources
- GitHub repositories of our research group.
- GitHub repositories of OpticsFoundry, which contains advanced versions of our laboratory control system software.
- YouTube channel of our lab.
- Mehrdad Zarei, Red Pitaya laser locking system, github, YouTube (Jan. 2023).















