Sentences with phrase «of ultracold atoms»

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).
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