Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals

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S. Nascimbene and J. Dalibard, Emergence of a Landau Level Structure in Dark Optical Lattices, arXiv:2412.15038, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 153402 (2025).
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A. Nardin, R. Lopes, M. Rizzi, L. Mazza, and S. Nascimbene, Bisognano-Wichmann Hamiltonian for the entanglement spectroscopy of fractional quantum Hall states, arXiv:2312.07604, Phys. Rev. B 111, 115162 (2025).
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Q. Redon, Q. Liu, J.-B. Bouhiron, N. Mittal, A. Fabre, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Realizing the entanglement Hamiltonian of a topological quantum Hall system, arXiv:2307.06251, Nat Commun 15, 10086 (2024).
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J.-B. Bouhiron, A. Fabre, Q. Liu, Q. Redon, N. Mittal, T. Satoor, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Realization of an atomic quantum Hall system in four dimensions, arXiv:2210.06322, Science 384, 223 (2024).
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A. Fabre and S. Nascimbene, Atomic topological quantum matter using synthetic dimensions, EPL 145, 65001 (2024).
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A. Fabre, J.-B. Bouhiron, T. Satoor, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Laughlin's Topological Charge Pump in an Atomic Hall Cylinder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173202 (2022).
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A. Fabre, J.-B. Bouhiron, T. Satoor, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Simulating two-dimensional dynamics within a large-size atomic spin, Phys. Rev. A 105, 013301 (2022).
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T. Satoor, A. Fabre, J.-B. Bouhiron, A. Evrard, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Partitioning dysprosium's electronic spin to reveal entanglement in nonclassical states, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043001 (2021).
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L. Barbiero, L. Chomaz, S. Nascimbene, and N. Goldman, Bose-Hubbard physics in synthetic dimensions from interaction Trotterization, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043340 (2020).
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T. Chalopin, T. Satoor, A. Evrard, V. Makhalov, J. Dalibard, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Probing chiral edge dynamics and bulk topology of a synthetic Hall system, Nat. Phys. 16, 1017 (2020).
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V. Makhalov, T. Satoor, A. Evrard, T. Chalopin, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Probing Quantum Criticality and Symmetry Breaking at the Microscopic Level, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 120601 (2019).
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A. Evrard, V. Makhalov, T. Chalopin, L. A. Sidorenkov, J. Dalibard, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Enhanced Magnetic Sensitivity with Non-Gaussian Quantum Fluctuations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173601 (2019).
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T. Chalopin, V. Makhalov, C. Bouazza, A. Evrard, A. Barker, M. Lepers, J.-F. Wyart, O. Dulieu, J. Dalibard, R. Lopes, and S. Nascimbene, Anisotropic light shift and magic polarization of the intercombination line of dysprosium atoms in a far-detuned dipole trap, Phys. Rev. A 98, 040502 (2018).
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T. Chalopin, C. Bouazza, A. Evrard, V. Makhalov, D. Dreon, J. Dalibard, L. A. Sidorenkov, and S. Nascimbene, Quantum-enhanced sensing using non-classical spin states of a highly magnetic atom, Nat Commun 9, 4955 (2018).
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D. Dreon, L. A. Sidorenkov, C. Bouazza, W. Maineult, J. Dalibard, and S. Nascimbene, Optical cooling and trapping of highly magnetic atoms: the benefits of a spontaneous spin polarization, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 065005 (2017).
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H. Li, J.-F. Wyart, O. Dulieu, S. Nascimbène, and M. Lepers, Optical Trapping of Ultracold Dysprosium Atoms: Transition Probabilities, Dynamic Dipole Polarizabilities and van Der Waals C 6 Coefficients, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 014005 (2017).
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S. Nascimbene, N. Goldman, N. R. Cooper, and J. Dalibard, Dynamic Optical Lattices of Subwavelength Spacing for Ultracold Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140401 (2015).
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S. Nascimbène, Realizing one-dimensional topological superfluids with ultracold atomic gases, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 46, 134005 (2013).

PhD thesis

Quentin Redon
Experimental realization of the entanglement Hamiltonian of an atomic quantum Hall system
defended on 31/10/2024
committee: Jérôme Dubail (referee), Leonardo Fallani (referee), Sylvain Nascimbene (supervisor), Hélène Perrin (president)

Jean-Baptiste Bouhiron
Realisation of an atomic quantum Hall system in four dimensions
defended on 11/12/2023
committee: Thomas Bourdel (referee), Frédéric Chevy (president), Hannah M. Price (referee), Sylvain Nascimbène (supervisor)

Aurélien Fabre
Realisation of Laughlin’s topological charge pump in an atomic Hall cylinder
defended on 02/12/2022
committee: Isabelle Bouchoule (president), Leonardo Mazza (examiner), Laurent Sanchez-Palencia (referee), Martin Weitz (referee), Sylvain Nascimbène (supervisor)

Tanish Satoor
Manipulating ultracold dysprosium’s atomic spin to encode quantum critical, entangled, and topological states of matter
defended on 07/10/2022
committee: Bruno Laburthe-Tolra (president), Sylvain Nascimbène (supervisor), Philipp Treutlein (referee), Tommaso Roscilde (referee), Karyn Le Hur (examiner)

Alexandre Evrard
Non-gaussian spin states of ultracold dysprosium atoms
defended on 29/09/2020
committee: Christophe Mora (president), Sylvain Nascimbène (supervisor), Monika Schleier-Smith (referee), Chris Westbrook (referee)

Thomas Chalopin
Quantum-enhanced sensing and synthetic Landau levels with ultracold dysprosium atoms
defended on 12/12/2019
committee: Benoît Douçot (president), Jean Dalibard (co-supervisor), Sylvain Nascimbène (supervisor), Caroline Champenois (referee), Ulrich Schneider (referee)

Chayma Bouazza
Ultracold dysprosium gas in optical dipole traps: control of interactions between strongly magnetic atoms
defended on 04/05/2018
committee: Chris Westbrook (president), Jean Dalibard (co-supervisor), Sylvain Nascimbène (supervisor), Pierre Pillet (referee), Bruno Laburthe-Tolra (referee), Leticia Tarruell (examiner)

Davide Dreon
Designing and building an ultracold dysprosium experiment: a new framework for light-spin interaction
defended on 12/07/2017
committee: Olivier Dulieu (president), Jean Dalibard (co-supervisor), Sylvain Nascimbène (supervisor), Francesca Ferlaino (referee), Thierry Lahaye (referee), Olivier Gorceix (examiner)