Researchers from Mainz, Cologne and Jülich simulate complex electronic insulator with
ultracold atoms in artificial crystals of light
The researchers used lasers to create a grid to trap
the ultracold atoms in place.
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 opens the way to expanding the scope of SPT physics with
ultracold atoms and studying non-equilibrium quantum dynamics
in these exotic systems.
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.
For Jacobson, the value of the experiment lies
in exploring the physics of
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,...
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.
A very sensitive force - measuring technique uses
ultracold rubidium
atoms in an optical cavity as a mechanical oscillator.
In experiments with
ultracold rubidium
atoms MPQ scientists create magnetic quantum crystals made of gigantic Rydberg
atoms.
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 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.
«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.
«Dressing
atoms in an
ultracold soup: Physicists build bizarre molecules called «Rydberg polarons».»
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).
Using lasers, U.S. and Austrian physicists have coaxed
ultracold strontium
atoms into complex structures unlike any previously seen
in nature.
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 shakin
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 shakin
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 shakin
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 shakin
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 shakin
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.
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).