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Exploring quantum dynamics with ultracold lithium in optical lattices

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Abstract

Ultracold lithium atoms in periodically modulated optical lattices serve as an ideal experimental platform for probing the dynamics of driven quantum systems. We report recent progress on several experiments along these lines, including Poincaré phase-space portraits of transport in driven inhomogeneous lattice gases and many-body prethermalization and delocalization in an interacting quantum kicked rotor. We describe future prospects for investigation of time-domain condensed matter physics, event-horizon dynamics of atoms with relativistic dispersion in a driven optical cavity, and quantum heat engines.

Publication: Alec Cao, Roshan Sajjad, Ethan Q. Simmons, Cora J. Fujiwara, Toshihiko Shimasaki, and David M. Weld. "Transport controlled by Poincaré orbit topology in a driven inhomogeneous lattice gas." Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032032(R) (2020). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.032032

Presenters

  • Jeremy Tanlimco

    University of California, Santa Barbara

Authors

  • Jeremy Tanlimco

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Ethan Q Simmons

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Roshan Sajjad

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Alec J Cao

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Eber Nolasco-Martinez

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Toshihiko Shimasaki

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Hasan E Kondakci

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Hector Mas

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • David M Weld

    University of California, Santa Barbara