A new PhD course is starting, and with it comes a wave of new students joining our team.

An injection of fresh energy, curiosity, and ideas!

Welcome to Michael Stiven Caracas Núñez (BaLi), Èlia Solé Cardona (Dy), Alessandro Vanni (Yb Tweezers), and Alberto Terenzi (Li).

Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with the electronic workshop of LENS, CNR-INO and INRiM, we have developed a new low-impedance and versatile RF antenna. The innovative design is tailored for cold atoms experiments, and we successfully tested its performance with ultracold lithium atoms. Our solution combines an optimized RF coil geometry with transmission-line impedance transformer, enabling large currents to flow through the coil while keeping electromagnetic interference with surrounding equipment negligible and maintaining wide optical access. Our versatile design may serve as a new standard for generating RF fields in cold atoms experiments.

F. Scazza et al.
A low-impedance radio-frequency circuit for fast spin manipulations in cold alkali atoms
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 96, 104713 (2025)

Alessio Ciamei has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project COMPASS: "An ultracold Molecule Platform for fundamental Asymmetry Searches".

You can find the theoretical proposal behind COMPASS in his recent preprint written in collaboration with the group of Prof. M. Tomza (University of Warsaw): https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16760.

Congratulations!

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Congratulations to Stefano for obtaining his well-deserved PhD degree (cum laude!) with his thesis titled "Ultracold ⁶Li-⁵³Cr mixtures: From resonantly interacting fermions to paramagnetic bosonic dimers"! 

And may the future bring you many more successful results. Daje!

Check out the thesis here.

We are looking for applicants who either hold or expect to obtain a Master’s degree in physics or a related field and have a strong interest in atomic physics, photonics, quantum optics, and quantum technology. Join our world-class research environment to explore quantum sciences with ultracold matter.

The new PhD call by the University of Florence is out! Contact us to devise together a PhD project to be carried out in our labs. There are two PhD programs available to join our labs: the doctoral programme in physics and astronomy and the international doctorate in atomic and molecular photonics.

Application deadline: June 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM (CEST / Central European Summer Time)