We report the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of the most magnetic element, dysprosium. The Dy BEC is the first for an open f-shell lanthanide (rare-earth) element and is produced via forced evaporation in a crossed optical dipole trap loaded by an unusual, blue-detuned and spin-polarized narrowline magneto-optical trap. Nearly pure condensates of 1.5 × 10(4) (164)Dy atoms form below T = 30 nK...

Coupling between a magnetic impurity and an external bath can give rise to many-body quantum phenomena, including Kondo and Hund's impurity states in metals, and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in superconductors. While advances have been made in probing the magnetic properties of d-shell impurities on surfaces, the confinement of f orbitals makes them difficult to access directly. Here we show that a ...

We take another look at two compounds which have been discussed as possible realizations of “spin ice”, namely holmium titanate and dysprosium titanate. As we have earlier observed, holmium titanate does not display icelike behaviour at low temperatures because the long ranged dipolar interactions between spins are strong compared to the nearest neighbour interactions. We show, analytically, th...

A new triple-decker dinuclear sandwich-type dysprosium complex based on both the phthalocyanine ligand and the tetradentate Schiff base ligand was synthesized, which is of interest for synthetic chemistry and also shows single-molecule magnetic behaviour.

Hexa-methyl-phospho-ramide (hmp), tetra-thio-tungstate, silver sulfide and dysprosium nitrate were self-assembled, forming an anionic [AgWS(4)](n) (n) (-) chain in the title compound, {[Dy(NO(3))(2)(C(6)H(18)N(3)OP)(4)][AgWS(4)]}(n). The central Dy atom in the cation is coordinated by eight O atoms from two didentate nitrate and four hmp ligands, giving rise to a distorted square anti-prismatic...

The phenalenyl-based dysprosium complexes [Dy(PLN)2(HPLN)Cl(EtOH)] (1), [Dy(PLN)3(HPLN)]·[Dy(PLN)3(EtOH)]·2EtOH (2) and [Dy(PLN)3(H2O)2]·H2O (3), HPLN being 9-hydroxy-1H-phenalen-1-one, have been synthesized. All compounds were fully characterized by means of single crystal X-ray analysis, paramagnetic (1)H NMR, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, UV-vis spectrophotometry and magnetic measurements. Bo...

We take another look at two compounds which have been discussed as possible realizations of ‘‘spin ice,’’ namely holmium titanate and dysprosium titanate. As we have earlier observed, holmium titanate does not display icelike behavior at low temperatures because the long-ranged dipolar interactions between spins are strong compared to the nearest-neighbor interactions. We show, exactly, that th...

We study quasi-two-dimensional dipolar Bose gases in which the bosons experience a Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that the degenerate dispersion minimum due to the spin-orbit coupling, combined with the long-range dipolar interaction, can stabilize a number of quantum crystalline and quasicrystalline ground states. Coupling the bosons to a fermionic species can further stabilize these phas...

The crystal structure of the title compound, DyNi(3), was redetermined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. In comparison with previous studies based on powder X-ray diffraction data [Lemaire & Paccard (1969 ▶). Bull. Soc. Fr. Minéral. Cristallogr.92, 9-16; Tsai et al. (1974 ▶). J. Appl. Phys.45, 3582-3586], the present redetermination revealed refined coordinates and anisotropic displac...