Publications

Ming Lian, Maximillian Mrozek-McCourt, Christopher K. Angyal, Dadbeh Shaddel, Zachary J. Blogg, Ian Crawley, Ariel T. Sommer. Self-aligning recirculated crossed optical dipole trap for lithium atoms. Phys. Rev. A 110, 063121 (2024); Editor’s Suggestion

Ding Zhang and Ariel T. Sommer. Transport of spin and mass at normal-superfluid interfaces in the unitary Fermi gas. Physical Review Research 4, 023231 (2022)

Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Ariel Sommer, and Jonathan Simon. Theory of interacting cavity Rydberg polaritons. Quantum Science and Technology 4, 014005 (2018)

Ningyuan Jia, Nathan Schine, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Logan W. Clark, Ariel Sommer, and Jonathan Simon. A strongly interacting polaritonic quantum dot. Nature Physics 14, 550-554 (2018)

Ningyuan Jia, Nathan Schine, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Ariel Sommer, and Jonathan Simon. Photons and polaritons in a broken-time-reversal nonplanar resonator. Physical Review A 97, 013802 (2018); Editor’s Suggestion; Featured in Physics

Timur M. Rvachov, Hyungmok Son, Ariel T. Sommer, Sepehr Abadi, Juliana J. Park, Martin W. Zwierlein, Wolfgang Ketterle, Alan O. Jamison. Long-Lived Ultracold Molecules with Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments. Physical Review Letters 119, 143001 (2017); Editor’s Suggestion; Featured in Physics

Nathan Schine, Albert Ryou, Andrey Gromov, Ariel Sommer, and Jonathan Simon. Synthetic Landau levels for photons. Nature 534, 671-675 (2016)

Jia Ningyuan, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Nathan Schine, Ariel Sommer, and Jonathan Simon. Observation and characterization of cavity Rydberg polaritons. Physical Review A 93, 041802(R) (2016); Editor’s Suggestion

Ariel Sommer and Jonathan Simon. Engineering photonic Floquet Hamiltonians through Fabry Pérot resonators. New Journal of Physics 18, 035008 (2016)

Jia Ningyuan, Clai Owens, Ariel Sommer, David Schuster, Jonathan Simon. Time- and Site-Resolved Dynamics in a Topological Circuit. Physical Review X 5, 021031 (2015)

Tarik Yefsah, Ariel T. Sommer, Mark J. Ku, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Wenji Ji, Waseem S. Bakr, and Martin W. Zwierlein. Heavy solitons in a fermionic superfluid. Nature 499 426-30 (2013) 

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Ariel T. Sommer, Zoran Hadzibabic, Tarik Yefsah, Waseem S. Bakr, and Martin W. Zwierlein. Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas. Physical Review Letters 109, 095302 (2012); Editor’s Suggestion; Featured in Physics 

Ariel T. Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Mark J. H. Ku, Waseem S. Bakr, and Martin W. Zwierlein.  Evolution of Fermion Pairing from Three to Two Dimensions. Physical Review Letters 108, 045302 (2012); Featured in Physics 

Mark J. H. Ku, Ariel T. Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Martin W. Zwierlein. Revealing the Superfluid Lambda Transition in the Universal Thermodynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas. Science 335, 563 (2012) 

K. Van Houcke, F. Werner, E. Kozik, N. Prokof’ev, B. Svistunov, M. J. H. Ku, A. T. Sommer, L. W. Cheuk, A. Schirotzek, and M. W. Zwierlein. Feynman diagrams versus Fermi-gas Feynman emulator. Nature Phys. 8, 366 (2012) 

Ariel Sommer, Mark Ku, and Martin W. Zwierlein. Spin transport in polaronic and superfluid Fermi gases. New Journal of Physics 13, 055009 (2011)

Ariel Sommer, Mark Ku, Giacomo Roati, and Martin W. Zwierlein. Universal spin transport in a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Nature 472, 201-204 (2011) 

André Schirotzek, Cheng-Hsun Wu, Ariel Sommer, and Martin W. Zwierlein. Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms. Physical Review Letters 102, 230402 (2009); Editor’s Suggestion; Featured in Physics 

Y. Matsushita, P. A. Wianecki, A. T. Sommer, T. H. Geballe, and I. R. Fisher. Type II superconducting parameters of Tl-doped PbTe determined from heat capacity and electronic transport measurements. Physical Review B 74, 134512 (2006)