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.
«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.
Not exact matches
For Jacobson, the value of the
experiment lies in exploring the physics of
ultracold atoms.
In
experiments with
ultracold rubidium
atoms MPQ scientists create magnetic quantum crystals made of gigantic Rydberg
atoms.
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.