Sentences with phrase «ultracold atoms»

To explore this question, researchers at the Center for Quantum Dynamics performed experiments in which they confined a gas of ultracold atoms in two - dimensional traps which they created using focused laser beams.

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.

Researchers from Mainz, Cologne and Jülich simulate complex electronic insulator with ultracold atoms in artificial crystals of light

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.

«Our observations, taken together with the observations using ultracold atoms, provide the first demonstration of higher - dimensional quantum Hall physics,» said Rechtsman.

«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.

Now, scientists are taking the clouds of ultracold atoms into space.

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.

One candidate for such a computer is a so - called optical lattice, in which ultracold atoms are coaxed by strategically placed laser beams into a grid arrangement,...

Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm.

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.

«One of the nice things about ultracold atoms is that you can think of them as model systems where you can play with quantum mechanics,» Jin says.

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.

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.

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.

That is why we use ultracold atoms to simulate the behaviour of electrons in solids.

For Jacobson, the value of the experiment lies in exploring the physics of ultracold atoms.

He and his colleagues pointed two laser beams, each controlling an ultracold atom of sodium or caesium, at the same...

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.

«Physicists quantum simulate topological materials with ultracold atoms.»

«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.

«Our work predicted in theory a new type of SPT phase, which is beyond the traditional classification based on ten-fold ways, and observed in experiment such an exotic state in an engineered synthetic crystal with ultracold atoms,» said Xiong - Jun Liu, assistant professor at Peking University and co-author of the paper.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Artistic depiction of ultracold atoms (shown with atomic orbitals) loaded into an optical lattice.

In his own research, Eugene Demler deals with ultracold atoms, studying how mixtures of bosonic and fermionic atoms behave.

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.

The researchers used lasers to create a grid to trap the ultracold atoms in place.

Instead, by building a synthetic crystal using lasers and ultracold atoms, the researchers can ask questions that are otherwise impossible to address.

The researchers found that applying a strong magnetic field to these ultracold atoms caused them to line up in an alternating pattern and lean away from each other.

«For us, this new, weakly bound state of matter is an exciting new possibility of investigating the physics of ultracold atoms,» says Joachim Burgdörfer.

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.

The main applications his research covers include condensed matter, ultracold atoms and quantum computing.