Kai DIECKMANN
PhD, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2001)
Associate Professor

Email: phydk@nus.edu.sg
Office: S15-01-07
Tel: +65 6516 6585

Current Research

The group conducts experimental research in the area of Atomic and Molecular and Optical Physics (AMO). Main interests are:

  • Many-body quantum simulations with ultracold Bose/Fermi gases and dipolar molecules
  • High-precision laser spectroscopy of diatomic molecules
  • Laser cooling and atom trapping
  • Atom interferometry

Panorama shot of the Quantum Matter lab. Picture by Daniel Oi.

Selected Publications

  • Efficient Creation of Ultracold Ground State 6Li40KPolar Molecules, C. He, X. Nie, V. Avalos, S. Botsi, S. Kumar, A. Yang, and K. Dieckmann, Phys. Rev. Lett., 132, 243401 (2024), DOI.
  • S. Botsi, A. Yang, S. Kumar, S. B. Pal, M. M. Lam, M. Debatin, and K. Dieckmann, “Empirical LiK excited state potentials: connecting short range and near dissociation expansions”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 24, 3933 – 3940 (2022).
  • Anbang Yang, Sofia Botsi, Sunil Kumar, Sambit B. Pal, Mark M. Lam, Ieva Cepaite, Andrew Laugharn, and Kai Dieckmann, “Singlet Pathway to the Ground State of Ultracold Polar Molecules”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 124, 133203 (2020).
  • C. L. Satter, S. Tan, and Kai Dieckmann, “Comparison of an efficient implementation of gray molasses to narrow-line cooling for the all-optical production of a lithium quantum gas”, Phys. Rev. A, 98, 023422, (2018).
  • Kai Dieckmann (Editor), “Laser Spectroscopy”, Proceedings of the XXII International Conference, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, (2016).
  • K. Dieckmann, ”Ultracold Dipolar Molecules in Optical Lattices , Roadmap on Quantum Systems and Optical Quantum Systems”, Journal of Optics, 18, 9, 093001, (2016).
  • Ch. Gross, H.C.J. Gan, and K. Dieckmann, “All-optical production and transport of a large 6Li quantum gas in a crossed optical dipole trap”, Phys. Rev. A 93, 053424 (2016).
  • J. Sebastian, Ch. Gross, K. Li, H.C.J. Gan, W. Li, and K. Dieckmann, “Two-stage magneto-optical trapping and narrow-line cooling of 6Li atoms to high phase-space density”, Phys. Rev. A 90, 033417 (2014).
  • A.-C. Voigt, M. Taglieber, L. Costa, T. Aoki, W. Wieser, T.W. Hänsch, and K. Dieckmann, “Ultracold heteronuclear Fermi-Fermi molecules”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 020405 (2009).
  • S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, M.W. Zwierlein, C.A. Stan, K. Dieckmann, C.H. Schunck, E.G.M. van Kempen, B.J. Verhaar, and W. Ketterle, “Radio- Frequency spectroscopy of ultracold fermions”, Science 300, 1726 (2003).

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