Quantum Gases in a Box

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Speaker
Nir Navon (Yale University)
Date
06/12/2018 - 15:30 - 14:30Add to Calendar 2018-12-06 14:30:00 2018-12-06 15:30:00 Quantum Gases in a Box For the past two decades harmonically trapped ultracold atomic gases have been used with great success to study fundamental many-body physics in a flexible experimental setting. Recently, we achieved the first atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in an essentially uniform potential of an optical-box trap [1], which has opened new possibilities for closer connections with condensed-matter systems and theories of the many-body problem that generally rely on the translational symmetry of the system. I will present recent studies of far-from-equilibrium physics that we have undertaken with this new system: the study of the (Kibble-Zurek) dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quenched homogeneous gas [2], and the emergence of turbulence in a periodically driven quantum gas [3,4].   [1] A. L. Gaunt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 200406 (2013) [2] N. Navon et al., Science 347, 167 (2015) [3] N. Navon et al., Nature 539, 72 (2016) [4] N. Navon et al., arXiv:1807.07564 Resnick (#209) - room 210 Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Resnick (#209) - room 210
Abstract
For the past two decades harmonically trapped ultracold atomic gases have been used with great success to study fundamental many-body physics in a flexible experimental setting. Recently, we achieved the first atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in an essentially uniform potential of an optical-box trap [1], which has opened new possibilities for closer connections with condensed-matter systems and theories of the many-body problem that generally rely on the translational symmetry of the system. I will present recent studies of far-from-equilibrium physics that we have undertaken with this new system: the study of the (Kibble-Zurek) dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quenched homogeneous gas [2], and the emergence of turbulence in a periodically driven quantum gas [3,4].
 
[1] A. L. Gaunt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 200406 (2013)
[2] N. Navon et al., Science 347, 167 (2015)
[3] N. Navon et al., Nature 539, 72 (2016)
[4] N. Navon et al., arXiv:1807.07564

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