Long time friend of the group and former mentee, one Paul J. Robert, has worked with us to iron out some intution in a nice theory-meets-simulation work. Our work together appears as an invited article in the special collection entitled Advances in Quantum Precision Measurment of Discover Quantum Science:

 

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Probing near-surface potentials with the self-binding threshold of dipolar quantum droplets

P. J. Robert, D. O. Sabulsky

Discov. Quantum Sci. 2, 37 (2026).

 

We explore some curioius ideas about how quantum gases can be used in metrology experiments, you can imagine the other ideas we've had - the thing that tickles us the most about this work is having been a little cheeky and employed real-valued wavefunctions...

 

As ever, a smashing job Paul, and always good fun!