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Non-equilibrium Dynamics of One-Dimensional Bose Gases
eBook - Springer Theses
ISBN/EAN: 9783319185644
Umbreit-Nr.: 9283644
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 6.23 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.05.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
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Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- This work presents a series of experiments with ultracold one-dimensional Bose gases, which establish said gases as an ideal model system for exploring a wide range of non-equilibrium phenomena. With the help of newly developed tools, like full distributions functions and phase correlation functions, the book reveals the emergence of thermal-like transient states, the light-cone-like emergence of thermal correlations and the observation of generalized thermodynamic ensembles. This points to a natural emergence of classical statistical properties from the microscopic unitary quantum evolution, and lays the groundwork for a universal framework of non-equilibrium physics. The thesis investigates a central question that is highly contested in quantum physics: how and to which extent does an isolated quantum many-body system relax? This question arises in many diverse areas of physics, and many of the open problems appear at vastly different energy, time and length scales, ranging from high-energy physics and cosmology to condensed matter and quantum information. A key challenge in attempting to answer this question is the scarcity of quantum many-body systems that are both well isolated from the environment and accessible for experimental study.
- Autorenportrait
- Dr. Tim Langen studied physics in Mainz, Marseille, Paris and Vienna. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at JILA, Boulder. His research interests include atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics and quantum many-body systems.