Publications

A cryogenic apparatus for coupling two-dimensional materials to a confocal multimode optical cavity

H. S. Hiller, P. D. Parakh, S. H. Aronson, K. Maeda, D. Lao, J. Stewart, Z. She, J. Wang, X. Xu, T. Heinz, and B. L. Lev

Review of Scientific Instruments 97, 093909 (2026)

arXiv:2605.28815

High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass

B. P. Marsh, D. Atri Schuller, Y. Ji, H. S. Hunt, S. Ganguli, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Science 394, 212 (2026)

arXiv:2509.12202

Superradiant charge density waves in a driven hybrid cavity-matter system

L. Skolc, S. Chattopadhyay, F. Marijanović, Q. Li, J. Keeling, B. L. Lev, and E. Demler

Nature Communications (2026)

arXiv:2603.28432

Effects of intertube dipole-dipole interactions in nearly integrable one-dimensional 162Dy gases

Y. Zhang, K. Yang, B. L. Lev, and M. Rigol

Physical Review A 113, 023314 (2026)

arXiv:2510.05212

A multimode cavity QED Ising spin glass

B. P. Marsh, D. Atri Schuller, Y. Ji, H. S. Hunt, G. Z. Socolof, D. P. Bowman, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 135, 160403 (2025)

arXiv:2505.22658

Directly observing replica symmetry breaking in a vector quantum-optical spin glass

R. M. Kroeze, B. P. Marsh, D. Atri Schuller, H. Hunt, A. N. Bourzutschky, M. Winer, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Science 389, 1122 (2025)

arXiv:2311.04216

Phantom energy in the nonlinear response of a quantum many-body scar state

K. Yang, Y. Zhang, K.-Y. Li, K. -Y. Lin, S. Gopalakrishnan, M. Rigol, and B. L. Lev

Science 385, 1063 (2024)

arXiv:2308.11615

Raman-phonon-polariton condensation in a transversely pumped cavity

A. N. Bourzutschky, B. L. Lev, and J. Keeling

npj Quantum Materials 9, 81 (2024)

arXiv:2405.05257

Entanglement and replica symmetry breaking in a driven-dissipative quantum spin glass

B. P. Marsh, R. M. Kroeze, S. Ganguli, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review X 14, 011026 (2024)

arXiv:2307.10176

Rapidity and momentum distributions of one-dimensional dipolar quantum gases

K.-Y. Li, Y. Zhang, K. Yang, K.-Y. Lin, S. Gopalakrishnan, M. Rigol, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review A 107, L061302 (2023)

arXiv:2211.09118

High Cooperativity Using a Confocal-Cavity–QED Microscope

R. M. Kroeze, B. P. Marsh, K.-Y. Lin, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

PRX Quantum 4, 020326 (2023)

arXiv:2212.06716

Review article: Dipolar physics with atomic quantum gases

L. Chomaz, I. Ferrier-Barbut, F. Ferlaino, B. Laburthe-Tolra, B. L. Lev, and T. Pfau

Reports on Progress in Physics 86, 026401 (2023)

arXiv:2201.02672

An optical lattice with sound

Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, B. P. Marsh, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Nature 599, 211 (2021)

arXiv:2104.13922

Enhancing associative memory recall and storage capacity using confocal cavity QED

B. P. Marsh, Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. Ganguli, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review X 11, 021048 (2021)

arXiv:2009.01227

A scanning quantum cryogenic atom microscope at 6 K

S. F. Taylor, F. Yang, B. A. Freudenstein, and B. L. Lev

SciPost Physics 10, 060 (2021)

Quantum Simulators: Architectures and Opportunities

E. Altman et al.

PRX Quantum 2, 017003 (2021)

Topological pumping of a 1D dipolar gas into strongly correlated prethermal states​

W. Kao, K.-Y. Li, K.-Y. Lin, S. Gopalakrishnan, and B. L. Lev

Science 371, 296 (2021). &

arXiv:2002.10475

Photon-mediated Peierls Transition of a 1D Gas in a Multimode Optical Cavity

C. Rylands, Y. Guo, B. L. Lev, J. Keeling, and V. Galitski

Physical Review Letters 125, 010404 (2020)

arXiv:2002.12285

Nematic Transitions in Iron-Pnictide Superconductors Imaged with a Quantum Gas

F. Yang, S. F. Taylor, S. D. Edkins, J. Palmstrom, Ian R. Fisher, and Benjamin L. Lev

Nature Physics 16, 514 (2020)

arXiv:1907.12601

Dynamical spin-orbit coupling of a quantum gas

R. M. Kroeze, Y. Guo, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 123, 160404 (2019)

arXiv:1904.08388

Emergent and broken symmetries of atomic self-organization arising from Gouy phase shifts in multimode cavity QED

Y. Guo, V. D. Vaidya, R. M. Kroeze, R. A. Lunney, B. L. Lev, and J. Keeling

Physical Review A 99, 053818 (2019)

arXiv:1810.11085

Sign-changing photon-mediated atom interactions in multimode cavity QED

Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, V. D. Vaidya, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 122, 193601 (2019)

arXiv:1810.11086

Spinor self-ordering of a quantum gas in a cavity

R. M. Kroeze, Y. Guo, V. D. Vaidya, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 121, 163601 (2018)

arXiv:1807.04915

Thermalization near integrability in a dipolar quantum Newton's cradle

Y. Tang, W. Kao, K.-Y. Li, S. Seo, K. Mallayya, M. Rigol, S. Gopalakrishnan, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review X 8, 021030 (2018)

arXiv:1707.07031

Tuning the dipole-dipole interaction in a quantum gas with a rotating magnetic field

Y. Tang, W. Kao, K.-Y. Li, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 120, 230401 (2018)

arXiv:1803.10867

Tunable-range, photon-mediated atomic interactions in multimode cavity QED​

V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, K. E. Ballantine, A. J. Kollár, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review X 8, 011002 (2018)

arXiv:1708.08933

A Scanning Quantum Cryogenic Atom Microscope

F. Yang, A. J. Kollár, S. F. Taylor, R. W. Turner, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Applied 7, 034026 (2017)

Supermode-density-wave-polariton condensation

A. J. Kollár, A. T. Papageorge, V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev

Nature Communications 8, 14386 (2017)

arXiv:1606.04127

Meissner-like effect for synthetic gauge field in multimode cavity QED​

K. E. Ballantine, B. L. Lev, and J. Keeling

Physical Review Letters 118, 045302 (2017)

arXiv:1608.07246

Anisotropic dependence of tune-out wavelength near Dy 741-nm transition

W. Kao, Y. Tang, N. Burdick, and B. L. Lev

Optics Express 25, 3411 (2017)

arXiv:1609.02111

Anisotropic collisions of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in the universal regime

N. Q. Burdick, A. G. Sykes, Y. Tang, and B. L. Lev

New Journal of Physics 18, 113004 (2016)

arXiv:1607.06743

Anisotropic expansion of a thermal dipolar Bose gas

Y. Tang, A. G. Sykes, N. Q. Burdick, J. M. DiSciacca, D. S. Petrov, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 117, 155301 (2016)

arXiv:1606.08856

Viewpoint: An Arrested Implosion

L. D. Carr and B. L. Lev

APS Physics 9, 55 (2016)

A long-lived spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Fermi gas

N. Q. Burdick, Y. Tang, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review X 6, 031022 (2016)

arXiv:1605.03211

Coupling to Modes of a Near-Confocal Optical Resonator Using a Digital Light Modulator

A. T. Papageorge, A. J. Kollár, and B. L. Lev

Optics Express 24, 11447 (2016)

arXiv:1603.06900

s-wave scattering lengths of the strongly dipolar bosons ¹⁶²Dy and ¹⁶⁴Dy

Y. Tang, A. Sykes, N. Burdick, J. Bohn, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review A 92, 022703 (2015)

arXiv:1506.03393

Bilayer fractional quantum Hall states with dipoles

N. Y. Yao, S. D. Bennett, C. R. Laumann, B. L. Lev, and A. V. Gorshkov

Physical Review A 92, 033609 (2015)

arXiv:1505.03099

Bose-Einstein condensation of ¹⁶²Dy and ¹⁶⁰Dy

Y. Tang, N. Burdick, K. Baumann, and B. L. Lev

New Journal of Physics 17, 045006 (2015)

arXiv:1411.3069

An adjustable-length cavity and Bose-Einstein condensate apparatus for multimode cavity QED

A. Kollár, A. Papageorge, K. Baumann, M. Armen, and B. L. Lev

New Journal of Physics 17, 043012 (2015)

arXiv:1411.5443

Fermionic suppression of dipolar relaxation

N. Q. Burdick, K. Baumann, Y. Tang, M. Lu, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 114, 023201 (2015)

arXiv:1407.3842

Observation of low-field Fano-Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases of dysprosium

K. Baumann, N. Q. Burdick, M. Lu, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review A, Rapid Communications, 89, 020701(R) (2014)

arXiv:1312.6401

Trapping ultracold gases near cryogenic materials with rapid reconfigurability

M. A. Naides, R. W. Turner, R. A. Lai, J. M. DiSciacca, and B. L. Lev

Applied Physics Letters 103, 251112 (2013)

Synthetic gauge field with highly magnetic lanthanide atoms

X. Cui, B. Lian, T.-L. Ho, B. L. Lev, and H. Zhai

Physical Review A, Rapid Communications 88, 011601(R) (2013)

arXiv:1303.6004

Resolving an Individual One-Proton Spin Flip to Determine a Proton Spin State

J. DiSciacca, M. Marshall, K. Marable, and G. Gabrielse

Physical Review Letters 110, 140406 (2013)

One-Particle Measurement of the Antiproton Magnetic Moment

J. DiSciacca, M. Marshall, K. Marable, G. Gabrielse, S. Ettenauer, E. Tardiff, R. Kalra, D. W. Fitzakerley, M. C. George, E. A. Hessels, C. H. Storry, M. Weel, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, and T. Sefzick (ATRAP Collaboration)

Physical Review Letters 110, 130801(2013)

Real-time observation of fluctuations at the driven-dissipative Dicke phase transition

F. Brennecke, R. Mottl, K. Baumann, R. Landig, T. Donner, and T. Esslinger

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 110, 11763(2013)

Imaging topologically protected transport with quantum degenerate gases

B. Dellabetta, T. L. Hughes, M. J. Gilbert, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review B 85, 205442 (2012)

Quantum Degenerate Dipolar Fermi Gas

M. Lu, N. Q. Burdick, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 108, 215301 (2012)

arXiv:1202.4444

An atomic interface between microwave and optical photons

M. Hafezi, Z. Kim, S. Rolston, L. Orozco, B. L. Lev, and J. Taylor

Physical Review A, Rapid communications 85, 020302(R) (2012)

Exploring models of associative memory via cavity quantum electrodynamics

S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart

Philosophical Magazine, 92, 353 (2012)

Direct Measurement of the Proton Magnetic Moment

J. DiSciacca and G. Gabrielse

Physical Review Letters 108, 153001 (2012)

Roton-type mode softening in a quantum gas with cavity-mediated long-range interactions

R. Mottl, F. Brennecke, K. Baumann, R. Landig, T. Donner, and T. Esslinger

Science 336, 1570(2012)

Frustration and glassiness in spin models with cavity-mediated interactions

S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart

Physical Review Letters 107, 277201 (2011)

Strongly Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate of Dysprosium

M. Lu, N. Q. Burdick, S.-H. Youn, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 107, 190401 (2011)

arXiv:1108.5993

Dynamic polarizabilities and magic wavelengths for dysprosium

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review A, 83, 032502 (2011)

Spectroscopy of a narrow-line laser cooling transition in atomic dysprosium

M. Lu, S.-H. Youn, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review A 83, 012510 (2011)

arXiv:1009.2962

Exploring symmetry breaking at the Dicke quantum

K. Baumann, R. Mottl, F. Brennecke and T. Esslinger

Physical Review Letters 107(14), 140402(2011)

Dysprosium magneto-optical traps

S.-H. Youn, M. Lu, U. Ray, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review A 82, 043425 (2010)

Atom-light crystallization of BECs in multimode cavities: Nonequilibrium classical and quantum phase transitions, emergent lattices, supersolidity, and frustration

S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart

Physical Review A 82, 043612 (2010)

Anisotropic sub-Doppler laser cooling in dysprosium magneto-optical traps

S.-H. Youn, M. Lu, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review A 82, 043403 (2010)

Trapping ultracold dysprosium: A highly magnetic gas for dipolar physics

M. Lu, S.-H. Youn, and B. L. Lev

Physical Review Letters 104, 063001 (2010)

Powerful narrow-line source of blue light for laser cooling Yb/Er and Dysprosium atoms

S. Kobtsev, B. Lev, J. Fortagh, and V. Baraulia

Proc. of SPIE 7578, 75782F-1 (2010)

Closed-orbit recurrences in molecular hydrogen

J. D. Wright, J. M. DiSciacca, J. M. Lambert, and T. J. Morgan

Physical Review A 81, 063409 (2010)

Self-Excitation and Feedback Cooling of an Isolated Proton

N. Guise, J. DiSciacca, and G. Gabrielse

Physical Review Letters 104, 143001(2010)

Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity

K. Baumann, C. Guerlin, F. Brennecke , and T. Esslinger

Nature 464, 1301–1306 (2010)

Emergent crystallinity and frustration with Bose-Einstein condensates in multimode cavities

S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart

Nature Physics 5, 845 - 850 (2009)

arXiv:0903.2254

Biaxial nematic phases in ultracold dipolar Fermi gases

B. Fregoso, K. Sun, E. Fradkin, and B. L. Lev

New Journal of Physics 11, 103003 (2009)

Dynamical coupling between a Bose-Einstein condensate and a cavity optical lattice

S. Ritter, F. Brennecke, K. Baumann, T. Donner, C. Guerlin and T. Esslinger

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 95(2), 213 (2009)

Optical interferometers with reduced sensitivity to thermal noise

H. J. Kimble, B. L. Lev, and J. Ye

Physical Review Letters 101, 260602 (2008)

Loss of molecules in magneto-electrostatic traps due to nonadiabatic transitions

M. Lara, B. L. Lev, and J. Bohn

Physical Review A 78, 033433 (2008)

Prospects for the cavity-assisted laser cooling of molecules

B. L. Lev, A. Vukics, E. Hudson, B. Sawyer, P. Domokos, H. Ritsch, and J. Ye

Physical Review A 77, 023402 (2008)

Mitigation of loss within a molecular Stark decelerator

B. Sawyer, B. Stuhl, B. L. Lev, J. Ye, and E. Hudson

European Journal of Physics D 48, 197 (2008)

Magneto-electrostatic trapping of ground state OH molecules

B. Sawyer, B. L. Lev, E. Hudson, B. Stuhl, M. Lara, J. Bohn, and J. Ye

Physical Review Letters 98, 253002 (2007)

Organic mixed-order photonic crystal lasers with ultrasmall footprint

K. Baumann, T. Stöferle, N. Moll, R.F. Mahrt, T. Wahlbrink, J. Bolten, T. Mollenhauer, C. Moormann and U. Scherf

Applied Physics Letters 91(17), 171108 (2007)

Superfluid-Helium Converter for Accumulation and Extraction of Ultracold Neutrons

O. Zimmer, K. Baumann, M. Fertl, B. Franke, S. Mironov, C. Plonka,D. Rich, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, H.F. Wirth and B. van den Brandt

Physical Review Letters 99, 104801 (2007)

OH hyperfine ground state: from precision measurement to molecular qubits

B. L. Lev, E. Meyer, E. Hudson, B. Sawyer, J. Bohn, and J. Ye

Physical Review A, Rapid Communications 74, 061402(R) (2006)

Integration of Fiber Coupled High-Q Silicon Nitride Microdisks with Magnetostatic Atom Chips

P. E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, O. Painter, B. Lev, and H. Mabuchi

Applied Physics Letters 89, 131108 (2006)

Precision measurement based on ultracold atoms and cold molecules

J. Ye, S. Blatt, M. M. Boyd, S. M. Foreman, E. R. Hudson, T. Ido, B. Lev, A. D. Ludlow, B. C. Sawyer, B. Stuhl, and T. Zelevinsky

Atomic Physics 20, XX International Conference on Atomic Physics (C. Roos et al., Eds., AIP Conf. Proc. 869, 2006), pp. 80-91

Quantum Information Processing in Optical Lattices and Magnetic Microtraps

P. Treutlein, T. Steinmetz, Y. Colombe, B. Lev, P. Hommelhoff, J. Reichel, M. Greiner, O. Mandel, A. Widera, T. Rom, I. Bloch, and T. W. Haensch

Fortschritte der Physik 54, 702 (2006)

Time lens for high-resolution neutron time-of-flight spectrometers

K. Baumann, R. Gähler, P. Grigoriev and E.I. Kats

Physical Review A 72(4), 043619 (2005)

Proposed Magneto-Electrostatic Ring Trap for Neutral Atoms

A. Hopkins, B. Lev, and H. Mabuchi

Physical Review A 70, 053616 (2004)

arXiv:quant-ph/0402037

Feasibility of Detecting Single Atoms using Photonic Bandgap Cavities

B. Lev, K. Srinivasan, P. Barclay, O. Painter, and H. Mabuchi

Nanotechnology 15, S556 (2004)

Fabrication of Micro-Magnetic Traps for Cold Neutral Atoms

B. Lev

Quantum Information and Computation, Vol. 3, No. 5, 450-464, (2003)

arXiv:quant-ph/0305067

Atom Mirror Etched from a Hard Drive

B. Lev, Y. Lassailly, C. Lee, A. Scherer, and H. Mabuchi

Applied Physics Letters 83, 395-397 (2003)

arXiv:quant-ph/0304003

Quantum Networks Based on Cavity QED

H. Mabuchi, M. Armen, B. Lev, M. Loncar, J. Vuckovic, H.J. Kimble, J. Preskill, M.L. Roukes, and A. Scherer

Quantum Information and Computation 1, Special Issue, 7-12, (2001)

Radiation Hardness Evaluation of the Analog Devices AD9042 ADC for Use in the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter

B. Wixted, B. Lev, and P. Denes

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 417, 371-376, (1998)