Comparing and contrasting nuclei and cold atomic gases

By Nikolaj Thomas Zinner, A. Jensen. 2013

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The experimental revolution in ultracold atomic gas physics over the past decades have brought tremendous amounts of new insight to the world of degenerate quantum systems. Here we compare and constrast the developments of cold atomic gases with the physics of nuclei since many concepts, techniques, and nomenclatures are common to both fields. However, nuclei are finite systems with interactions that are typically much more complicated than those of ultracold atomic gases. The simularities and differences must therefore be carefully addressed for a meaningful comparison and to facilitate fruitful crossdisciplinary activity. Universal results from atomic physics should have impact in certain limits of the nuclear domain. In particular, with advances in the trapping of few-body atomic systems we expect a more direct exchange of ideas and results.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Universal few-body physics and cluster formation (2017, background): “(Baranov et al., 2012; Kotochigova, 2014; Wang et al., 2015a; Zinner and Jensen, 2013) • (9) It should be kept in mind that an accurate description of the two-body scattering length dependence of few-body phenomena hinges critically on having an accurate description of the atom-atom scattering…”
Quantum Simulation (2013, background): “The reviews (Zinner and Jensen, 2008, 2013) detail similarities between atomic nuclei and cold atomic gases, which could be utilized for designing quantum simulators of nuclei using atomic ensembles.”