19/11/2021
Today a paper appeared in Science co-authored by Amita and Niels. In this paper they report on beautiful experiments conducted in their lab on the 3rd floor in which they demonstrate a novel effect predicted 30 years ago.
http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh3470
One interpretation of their work is that that they were able to make some atoms go invisible! More accurately, they were able to demonstrate a suppression in light scattering from a gas due to fermionic quantum statistics.
There are already nice writeups appearing in Physics World and New Scientist, which also discuss two other experiments (from MIT and JILA-CU Boulder) that were published jointly with the Otago work.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298159-strange-quantum-effect-predicted-30-years-ago-has-now-been-observed/
Pauli blocking is spotted in ultracold fermionic gases
