Ultracold Atoms Out of Equilibrium

By Tim Langen, R. Geiger, Jörg Schmiedmayer. 2014

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The relaxation of isolated quantum many-body systems is a major unsolved problem connecting statistical and quantum physics. Studying such relaxation processes remains a challenge despite considerable efforts. Experimentally, it requires the creation and manipulation of well-controlled and truly isolated quantum systems. In this context, ultracold neutral atoms provide unique opportunities to understand nonequilibrium phenomena because of the large set of available methods to isolate, manipulate, and probe these systems. Here, we give an overview of the rapid experimental progress that has been made in the field over the past few years and highlight some of the questions that may be explored in the future.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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• Quantum Many-Body Scars: A Quasiparticle Perspective (2022, background): “, the advent of analog and digital quantum simulation platforms with low levels of environmental decoherence (30, 31, 32, 33)—one important question has been the connection between microscopic quantum theory and macroscopic thermodynamics (34, 35).”