Leticia Tarruell

Leticia-Tarruell

ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 3
08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
Office: 024
Office phone: +34 935542254
Lab phone: +34 935542263
Fax: +34 935534000
E-mail: leticia.tarruell(at)icfo(dot)es

 

Research interests

  • Quantum simulation of gauge theories
  • Liquid droplets and quantum fluctuations in Bose-Bose mixtures
  • Fermi-Hubbard physics with fermions in optical lattices
  • Quantum magnetism
  • Artificial graphene
  • Non-equilibrium phenomena in isolated quantum systems
  • Fermionic superfluidity and BEC-BCS crossover physics

 

Short CV

  • since 2022: ICREA Professor at ICFO, Barcelona
  • 2020 – 2021:  Group Leader (Associate Professor) at ICFO, Barcelona
  • 2013 – 2019:  Junior Group Leader (Assistant Professor, Nest Fellow) at ICFO, Barcelona
  • 2012 – 2013: Junior CNRS Researcher (CR2) in Philippe Bouyer’s group at Institut d’Optique, Bordeaux
  • 2008 – 2012: Postdoc in Tilman Esslinger’s group at ETH Zurich
  • 2004 – 2008: PhD student in Christophe Salomon’s group at ENS Paris
  • 2003 – 2004: Master studies (Quantum physics) at ENS Paris (Master thesis in Christophe Salomon’s group)
  • 2002 – 2003: Erasmus physics student at Université Paris 7 (Research internship in Jean Dalibard’s group)
  • 1999 – 2002: Undergraduate physics studies at Universidad Computense de Madrid
  • 1999 – 2002: Final music studies (violin) at Conservatorio Superior de Música San Lorenzo de El Escorial
  • until 1999:     Professional music studies (violin) at Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Ferraz, Madrid

 

Scientific honors and awards

  • ERC Consolidator Grant, 2020
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Institute of Physics, 2018
  • Ramón y Cajal Fellow, 2016
  • Young Experimental Physics Award,  Royal Spanish Physical Society, 2015
  • L’Oréal – UNESCO Spanish prize For Women in Science, 2014

Prizes for PhD students in my group:

  • Cesar R. Cabrera: ICFO PhD award in experimental physics, 2018

 

Selected publications


A. Frölian, C. S. Chisholm, E. Neri, C. R. Cabrera, R. Ramos, A. Celi, and L. Tarruell
Realizing a 1D topological gauge theory in an optically dressed BEC
Nature 608, 293–297 (2022)

 

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C. R. Cabrera, L. Tanzi, J. Sanz, B. Naylor, P. Thomas, P. Cheiney, and L. Tarruell
Quantum liquid droplets in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates
Science 359, 301-304 (2018)

 

Soliton-to-droplet

P. Cheiney, C. R. Cabrera, J. Sanz, B. Naylor, L. Tanzi, and L. Tarruell
Bright Soliton to Quantum Droplet Transition in a Mixture of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135301 (2018)

 

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D. Greif, T. Uehlinger, G. Jotzu, L. Tarruell, and T. Esslinger
Short-Range Quantum Magnetism of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice
Science 340, 1307-1310 (2013)

 

atoms

L. Tarruell, D. Greif, T. Uehlinger, G. Jotzu, and T. Esslinger
Creating, moving and merging Dirac points with a Fermi gas in a tunable honeycomb lattice
Nature 483, 302–305 (2012)

 

mBEC

 

T. Bourdel, L. Khaykovich, J.Cubizolles, J. Zhang, F. Chevy, M. Teichmann, L. Tarruell, S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans and C. Salomon
Experimental Study of the BEC-BCS Crossover Region in Lithium 6
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 05040 (2004)