Modeling the Dynamics of Exotic Many-body States of Ultracold Atoms
Abstract
Recent developments in atomic, molecular, and optical physics demonstrate the ability to engineerpristine environments to create novel and potentially useful quantum states of matter by usinglasers to confine and manipulate ultracold gases of atoms. Unwanted dirt and disorder in ordinarysolids complicate the identification of quantum effects but clean trapped atomic gases allow nearperfect construction of quantum states that evolve independently from environmental influences.Ultracold atomic gases are neutral and isolated. But synthetic fields, in the form of external lasers,can mimic the fields experienced by charged particles in ordinary solids. Ultracold atomic gasescan therefore be used to emulate many-body quantum states as they evolve in time under controlled synthetic fields, thus allowing the exploration of fundamental questions at the forefront of quantum physics research.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 19, 2018
- Source ID
- FA95501810505
Entities
People
- V W Scarola
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- Virginia Tech