313 research outputs found
Decoherence of a single-ion qubit immersed in a spin-polarized atomic bath
We report on the immersion of a spin-qubit encoded in a single trapped ion
into a spin-polarized neutral atom environment, which possesses both continuous
(motional) and discrete (spin) degrees of freedom. The environment offers the
possibility of a precise microscopic description, which allows us to understand
dynamics and decoherence from first principles. We observe the spin dynamics of
the qubit and measure the decoherence times (T1 and T2), which are determined
by the spin-exchange interaction as well as by an unexpectedly strong
spin-nonconserving coupling mechanism
A two-dimensional Fermi liquid with attractive interactions
We realize and study an attractively interacting two-dimensional Fermi
liquid. Using momentum resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we measure the
self-energy, determine the contact parameter of the short-range interaction
potential, and find their dependence on the interaction strength. We
successfully compare the measurements to a theoretical analysis, properly
taking into account the finite temperature, harmonic trap, and the averaging
over several two-dimensional gases with different peak densities
Scale invariance and viscosity of a two-dimensional Fermi gas
We investigate the collective excitations of a harmonically trapped
two-dimensional Fermi gas from the collisionless (zero sound) to the
hydrodynamic (first sound) regime. The breathing mode, which is sensitive to
the equation of state, is observed at a frequency two times the dipole mode
frequency for a large range of interaction strengths and temperatures, and the
amplitude of the breathing mode is undamped. This provides evidence for a
dynamical SO(2,1) scaling symmetry of the two-dimensional Fermi gas. Moreover,
we investigate the quadrupole mode to measure the shear viscosity of the
two-dimensional gas and study its temperature dependence
Time interval distributions of atoms in atomic beams
We report on the experimental investigation of two-particle correlations
between neutral atoms in a Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment. Both an atom
laser beam and a pseudo-thermal atomic beam are extracted from a Bose-Einstein
condensate and the atom flux is measured with a single atom counter. We
determine the conditional and the unconditional detection probabilities for the
atoms in the beam and find good agreement with the theoretical predictions.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Observing the Formation of Long-range Order during Bose-Einstein Condensation
We have experimentally investigated the formation of off-diagonal long-range
order in a gas of ultracold atoms. A magnetically trapped atomic cloud prepared
in a highly nonequilibrium state thermalizes and thereby crosses the
Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition. The evolution of phase coherence
between different regions of the sample is constantly monitored and information
on the spatial first-order correlation function is obtained. We observe the
growth of the spatial coherence and the formation of long-range order in real
time and compare it to the growth of the atomic density. Moreover, we study the
evolution of the momentum distribution during the nonequilibrium formation of
the condensate.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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