The techniques of principal and independent component analysis are applied to images
of ultracold atoms.
«For us, this new, weakly bound state of matter is an exciting new possibility of investigating the physics
of ultracold atoms,» says Joachim Burgdörfer.
A paper describing the research appears January 4, 2018 in the journal Nature along with a paper from a separate group from Germany that shows that a similar mechanism can be used to make a gas
of ultracold atoms exhibit four - dimensional quantum Hall physics as well.
The result is a theoretical tool that can predict the important Efimov properties, namely the energies of the Efimov states, the widths of those states (essentially the fuzziness of our knowledge of the precise energy value), and the rates at which the three - particle states will form inside a gas
of ultracold atoms.
Artistic depiction
of ultracold atoms (shown with atomic orbitals) loaded into an optical lattice.
The researchers focused the smaller laser beams through the cloud
of ultracold atoms and found that each beam's focus — the point at which the beam's intensity was highest — attracted a single atom, essentially picking it out from the cloud and holding it in place.
Physical studies
of ultracold atoms, carried out at the University of Kaiserslautern, now provide an understanding of diffusion in periodic structures, relevant for various complex systems.
For Jacobson, the value of the experiment lies in exploring the physics
of ultracold atoms.
Not exact matches
Thousands
of ultracold strontium
atoms vibrate in a lattice
of laser light inside this record - setting atomic clock, designed by researchers at the Joint Institute for Lab Astrophysics in partnership with the National Institute
of Standards and Technology.
To create the molecules, JILA's Cornell and Peter Engels and Maren Mossman
of Washington State University in Pullman will apply a magnetic field to
ultracold atoms of potassium - 39.
«Moreover, owing to the advantages
of the full controllability, we expect that the present work shall push forward future studies in
ultracold atom experiments
of interacting SPT phases, which are broadly discussed in theory but very hard to investigate in solid - state materials,» explained Gyu - Booong Jo, assistant professor at the HKUST Department
of Physics and co-author
of the paper.
In a recent research, an international team
of experimental and theoretical physicists at the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Peking University (PKU) reported the observation
of an SPT phase for
ultracold atoms using atomic quantum simulation.
«This work is indeed the first experimental realization
of an SPT phase for
ultracold atoms, which opens a great deal
of possibilities to simulate and probe novel SPT physics.,» Prof Liu added.
This work opens the way to expanding the scope
of SPT physics with
ultracold atoms and studying non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in these exotic systems.
The team created a synthetic crystal for
ultracold atoms and for the first time emulates key properties
of a one - dimensional (1D) topological material beyond the natural condition.
The
ultracold atoms are billion times more dilute than solids but allow the unique access to the study
of complex physics because they are extremely pristine and controllable.
We established superfluidity in a two - state mixture
of ultracold fermionic
atoms with imbalanced state populations.
Without meaning to, Esslinger's team created what amounts to an atomic analogue
of this using optical trapping, in which criss - crossing laser beams are used to corral
ultracold atoms.
Researchers can engineer a rich selection
of interactions in
ultracold atom experiments, allowing them to explore the behavior
of complex and massively intertwined quantum systems.
That is why we use
ultracold atoms to simulate the behaviour
of electrons in solids.
Using
ultracold atoms, researchers at Heidelberg University have found an exotic state
of matter where the constituent particles pair up when limited to two dimensions.
To trap individual neutral
atoms, the researchers first used a laser to cool a cloud
of rubidium
atoms to
ultracold, near - absolute - zero temperatures, slowing the
atoms down from their usual, high - speed trajectories.
Zwierlein's group sought to create
ultracold molecules
of sodium potassium, each consisting
of a single sodium and potassium
atom.
Here we prepare an
ultracold few - body quantum state
of reactants and demonstrate state - to - state chemistry for the recombination
of three spin - polarized
ultracold rubidium (Rb)
atoms to form a weakly bound Rb2 molecule.
In experiments with
ultracold rubidium
atoms MPQ scientists create magnetic quantum crystals made
of gigantic Rydberg
atoms.
«Our observations, taken together with the observations using
ultracold atoms, provide the first demonstration
of higher - dimensional quantum Hall physics,» said Rechtsman.
A team
of physicists from MPQ, Caltech, and ICFO proposes the combination
of nano - photonics with
ultracold atoms for simulating quantum many - body systems and creating new states
of matter.
«We catch hundreds
of Rubidium
atoms in a magnetic trap and cool them so that they form an
ultracold Bose - Einstein condensate,» says Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer from the Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics at the Vienna University
of Technology.
Usually, only the wave properties
of single particles play a role, but now researchers at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Vienna University
of Technology have succeeded in quantum mechanically controlling hundreds
of Rubidium
atoms of an
ultracold Bose - Einstein - condensate by shaking it in just the right way.
A Bose - Einstein condensate is a state
of matter created by
atoms at
ultracold temperatures, close to absolute zero.
The authors propose a physical platform that is particularly well suited for its experimental realization: an
ultracold gas
of atoms trapped in an optical lattice (a periodic landscape created by light).
In practice, the proposed experiment would consist in preparing a topological phase, by loading an
ultracold gas into an optical lattice, and in subsequently shaking this lattice in a circular manner; the resulting heating rates would then be extracted by measuring the number
of atoms that remained in the topological phase after a certain duration
of shaking.
His current interests are the study
of quantum simulators with
ultracold atoms and the development
of atom interferometers for testing general relativity in space or detecting gravity fields and gravitational waves underground.
Researchers from Mainz, Cologne and Jülich simulate complex electronic insulator with
ultracold atoms in artificial crystals
of light
The plasma science frontier is often, but not limited to, the extremes
of the plasma state, ranging from the very small (several
atom systems) to the extremely large (plasma structure spanning light years in length), from the very fast (attosecond processes) to the very slow (hours), from the diffuse (interstellar medium) to the extremely dense (diamond compressed to tens
of gigabar pressures), and from the
ultracold (tens
of micro kelvin) to the extremely hot (stellar core).