Researchers from Mainz, Cologne and Jülich simulate complex electronic insulator
with ultracold atoms in artificial crystals of light
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.
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.
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.
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.
We established superfluidity in a two - state mixture of
ultracold fermionic
atoms with imbalanced state populations.
Artistic depiction of
ultracold atoms (shown
with atomic orbitals) loaded into an optical lattice.
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.
«Our observations, taken together
with the observations using
ultracold atoms, provide the first demonstration of higher - dimensional quantum Hall physics,» said Rechtsman.