Group News (2012)7 December 2012|ilp SengstockFirst quantum degenrate Fermi gas of Ytterbium in HamburgPhoto: AG SengstockWe have successfully cooled fermionic 173Yb atoms to quantum degeneracy. Typically the Fermi seas we produce contain up to 5 *105 atoms at...5 October 2012|ILP SengstockNon-Abelian Gauge Fields and Topological Insulators in Shaken Optical LatticesPhoto: AG SengstockTime-periodic driving like lattice shaking offers a low-demanding method to generate artificial gauge fields in optical lattices. We identify the...3 September 2012|ilp SengstockIntrinsic Photoconductivity of Ultracold Fermions in Optical LatticesPhoto: AG SengstockWe report on the experimental observation of an analog to a persistent alternating photocurrent in an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms in an optical...13 June 2012|ilp SengstockFirst Ytterbium BEC in HamburgPhoto: AG SengstockWednesday night, June 13th 2012, we achieved our first BEC of 174Yb containing about 10000 atoms. In this experiment we prepared about 4x107 atoms in...13 March 2012|ILP SengstockMulti-orbital and density-induced tunneling in optical latticesPhoto: AG SengstockWe show that multi-orbital and density-induced tunneling have significant impact on the phase diagram of bosonic atoms and Bose-Fermi mixtures in...7 March 2012|ilp SengstockCoherent multi-flavour spin dynamics in a fermionic quantum gasPhoto: AG SengstockWe demonstrate the first experimental realization of a well‐controlled fermionic spinor gas with interaction‐driven spin oscillations. By properly...