Microscopy of many-body states in optical lattices
Quantum Gases
2015-09-02 v1
Abstract
Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have proven to provide an extremely clean and controlled setting to explore quantum many-body phases of matter. Now, imaging of atoms in such lattice structures has reached the level of single-atom sensitive detection combined with the highest resolution down to the level of individual lattice sites. This has opened up fundamentally new opportunities for the characterization and the control of quantum many-body systems. Here we give a brief overview of this field and explore the opportunities offered for future research.
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@article{arxiv.1409.8501,
title = {Microscopy of many-body states in optical lattices},
author = {Christian Gross and Immanuel Bloch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.8501},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Book chapter to appear in volume III of the Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules (World Scientific)