Publications

Articles

• Kalifa, G. H., Kopelevitch, D., Stern, A., and Sagi, Y., “Experimental Determination of the D1 Magic Wavelength for 40K”, arXiv:2604.12448 (2026).
• Weill, R., Nemirovsky, J., and Sagi, Y., “Fast collisional √SWAP gate for fermionic atoms in an optical superlattice”, Phys. Rev. A 113, 063310 (2026).
• Winsten, Y., Cohen, D., and Sagi, Y., “Tweezer interferometry with NOON states”, Phys. Rev. A 110, 043308 (2024).
• Meltzer, I. and Sagi, Y., “Atomic clock interferometry using optical tweezers”, Phys. Rev. A 110, 032602 (2024). New Scientist magazine wrote a short piece of this work here. Sabine Hossenfelder made a nice short video on our work here.
• Ziv, R., Patsyk, A., Lumer, Y., Sagi, Y., Eldar, Y. C. and Segev, M., “Phase Retrieval of Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates“, Phys. Rev. A 109, 043318 (2024).
• Florshaim, Y., Zohar, E., Koplovich, D. Z., Meltzer, I., Weill, R., Nemirovsky, J., Stern, A., and Sagi, Y., “Spatial adiabatic passage of ultracold atoms in optical tweezers”, Sci. Adv. 10, eadl1220 (2024). 
• Nemirovsky, J., Weill, R., Meltzer, I., and Sagi, Y., “Atomic interferometer based on optical tweezers”,Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043300 (2023).
• Zohar, E., Florshaim, Y., Zilberman, O., Stern, A. and Sagi, Y., “Degenerate Raman sideband cooling of 40K atoms”, Phys. Rev. A 106, 063111 (2022).
• Ness, G., Alberti, A. and Sagi, Y., “Quantum speed limit for states with a bounded energy spectrum”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140403 (2022).
• Shkedrov, C., Menashes, M., Ness, G., Vainbaum, A., Altman, E. and Sagi, Y.,“Absence of heating in a uniform Fermi gas created by periodic driving”, Phys. Rev. X 12, 011041 (2022).
• Ness, G., Lam, M. R., Alt, W., Meschede, D., Sagi, Y. and Alberti A., “Observing quantum-speed-limit crossover with matter wave interferometry”, Sci. Adv. 7, eabj9119 (2021).
• Nemirovsky, J. and Sagi, Y., “Fast universal two-qubit gate for neutral fermionic atoms in optical tweezers”, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013113 (2021).
• Ilin, Y., Tsesses, S., Bartal, G.,  Y. and Sagi, Y., “Sub-wavelength spin excitations in ultracold gases created by stimulated Raman transitions”, New J. Phys. 22, 093071 (2020).
• Ness, G., Shkedrov, C., Florshaim, Y., Diessel, O. K., Milczewski, von J., Schmidt, R. and Sagi, Y., “Observation of a smooth polaron-molecule transition in a degenerate Fermi gas”, Phys. Rev. X 10, 041019 (2020). Also featured in Physics magazine.
• Ness, G., Vainbaum, A., Shkedrov, C., Florshaim and Y., Sagi, Y., Single-Exposure Absorption Imaging of Ultracold Atoms Using Deep Learning, Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 014011 (2020).
• Shkedrov, C., Ness, G., Florshaim, Y. and Sagi., Y. In Situ Momentum Distribution Measurement of a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas using Raman Spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. A. 101, 013609 (2020).
• Sharabi, Y., Herzig Sheinfux, H., Sagi, Y., Eisenstein, G. and Segev, M. Self-Induced Diffusion in Disordered Nonlinear Photonic Media, Phys. Rev. Lett 121, 233901 (2018).
• Ness, G., Shkedrov, C., Florshaim, Y. and Sagi., Y. Realistic Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Optical Transfer, New J. Phys. 20, 095002 (2018).
• Shkedrov, C., Florshaim, Y., Ness, G., Gandman, A. and Sagi., Y. High Sensitivity RF Spectroscopy of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093402 (2018).
• Bar Lev, Y., Reichman, D. R. and Sagi, Y. Many-body localization in system with a completely delocalized single-particle spectrum, Phys. Rev. B 94, 201116(R) (2016).
• Almog, I., Loewenthal, G., Coslovsky, J., Sagi, Y. and Davidson, N. Dynamic decoupling in the presence of colored control noise, Phys. Rev. A 94, 042317 (2016).
• Hen, O.,  Weinstein, L. B.,  Piasetzky, E., Miller, G. A., Sargsian, M. M.  and Sagi, Y. Correlated fermions in nuclei and ultracold atomic gases, Phys. Rev. C 92, 045205 (2015).
• Sagi, Y., Drake, T. E., Paudel, R., Chapurin, R., & Jin, D. S.  Breakdown of Fermi liquid description for strongly interacting fermions.  Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 075301 (2015).
• Pugatch, R., Bhattacharyya, D., Amir, A., Sagi, Y. and Davidson., N. Anomalous symmetry breaking in classical two-dimensional diffusion of coherent atoms. Phys. Rev. A 89, 033807 (2014).
• Sagi, Y., Drake, T. E., Paudel, R., Chapurin, R. and Jin, D. S. Probing local quantities in a strongly interacting Fermi gas.  J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 467 012010 (2013).
• Sagi, Y., Drake, T. E., Paudel, R. and Jin, D. S. Measurement of the Homogeneous Contact of a Unitary Gas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 220402 (2012).
• Drake, T. E., Sagi, Y., Paudel,  R., Stewart, J. T., Gaebler, J. P. and Jin, D. S. Direct Observation of the Fermi Surface in an Ultracold Atomic Gas. Phys. Rev. A 86, 031601(R) (2012).
• Sagi, Y. Collisional Narrowing and Dynamical Decoupling in a Dense Ensemble of Cold Atoms. Springer Theses, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-29604-8. Available also through Amazon.
• Sagi, Y., Brook, M., Almog, I. and Davidson, N. Observation of Anomalous Diffusion and Fractional Self-similarity in One Dimension. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093002 (2012).
• Almog, I., Sagi, Y., Gordon, G., Bensky, G., Kurizki, G. and Davidson, N. Direct Measurement of the System-Environment Coupling as a Tool For Understanding Decoherence and Dynamical Decoupling. J. Phys. B 44, 154006 (2011).
• Sagi, Y., Pugatch, R., Almog, I., Aizenman, M. and Davidson, N. Motional Broadening in Ensembles With Heavy-Tail Frequency Distribution. Phys. Rev. A 83, 043821 (2011).
• Sagi, Y., Almog, I. and Davidson, N. Universal scaling of collisional spectral narrowing in an ensemble of cold atoms. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 093001 (2010).
• Sagi, Y., Almog, I. and Davidson, N. Process tomography of dynamical decoupling in a dense optically trapped atomic ensemble. Phys. Rev. Lett.105, 053201 (2010)
• Sagi, Y., Pugatch, R., Almog, I. and Davidson, N. Spectrum of two-level systems with discrete frequency fluctuations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253003 (2010).
• Shuker, M., Firstenberg, O., Sagi, Y., Ben-kish, A., Davidson, N. and Ron, A. Ramsey-like measurement of the decoherence rate between Zeeman sublevels. Phys. Rev. A 78, 063818 (2008).
• Sagi, Y. Scheme for generating Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type states of n photons. Phys. Rev. A 68, 042320 (2003).
• Sagi, Y., Firstenberg, O., Fisher A. and Ron, A. Optical interference with noncoherent states. Phys. Rev. A 67, 033811 (2003).

 

Theses

• “Coherent Splitting and Recombination of Atoms Using Optical Tweezers”, MSc dissertation, Ilan Meltzer, June 2024.
• “Tunneling and Spatial Adiabatic Passage in Microtraps with few Fermionic Atoms”, PhD dissertation, Yanay Florshaim, August 2024.
• “Degenerate Raman side-band cooling of 40K atoms”, MSc dissertation, Elad Zohar, September 2022.
• “Floquet engineering and quasi-particle properties in a strongly-interacting Fermi gas”, MSc dissertation, Anastasiya Vainbaum, May 2022.
• “From One to Many: Quantum Dynamics and Interactions of a Single Atom Coupled to Many Degrees of Freedom”, PhD dissertation, Gal Ness, May 2022.
• “Towards Raman side-band cooling of a single atom in a microscopic optical trap”, MSc dissertation, Oded Zilberman, April 2022.
• “Characterization of a uniform Fermi gas using Raman spectroscopy”, MSc dissertation, Meny Menashes, July 2021.
• “High-sensitivity rf and Raman spectroscopy of a quantum degenerate Fermi gas”, PhD dissertation, Constantine Shkedrov, August 2020.
• “Non-Adiabatic Optical Transport of a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas”, MSc dissertation, Gal Ness, July 2018.
• “Towards Quantum Computation with Ultracold Fermionic Atoms”, MSc dissertation, Yanay Florshaim, May 2017.