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Thursday, June 02, 2016
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
T-DO Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 123 Room 121)

Quantum Lunch

Quantum Gas in a Box

Nir Navon
University of Cambridge

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 two directions that we have recently explored 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. [1] A. L. Gaunt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 200406 (2013) [2] N. Navon et al., Science 347, 167 (2015)

Host: Wojciech Zurek