Physics (Internal)

Experiments with gases in 0D, 1D and beyond

This event is part of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.

Abstract: I will review the physics of 1D Bose gases, show how we experimentally implement them, and describe experiments that confirm the longstanding exact theory across all coupling regimes. I will also describe quantum Newton’s cradles, which are out-of-equilibrium 1D gases that act unlike any other many-body system, and explain what they might teach us about the nature of irreversibility in quantum systems. I will also describe a separate experiment in which we image hundreds of single atoms in a 3D array, and show how we plan to use them as qubits in a quantum computer.