2012/03/29 by M. Müller, S. Diehl, G. Pupillo +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph #cond-mat.quant-gas
published as Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 61, 1-80 (2012) · 79 pages, 23 figures, review article submitted to Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. Abstract shortened
arxiv created 2012/03/29 · arxiv updated 2012/10/02
The enormous experimental progress in atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics during the last decades allows us nowadays to isolate single, a few or even many-body ensembles of microscopic particles, and to manipulate their quantum properties at a level of precision, which still seemed unthinkable some years ago. This versatile set of tools has enabled the development of the well-established concept of engineering of many-body Hamiltonians in various physical platforms. These available tools, however, can also be harnessed to extend the scenario of Hamiltonian engineering to a more general Liouvillian setting, which in addition to coherent dynamics also includes controlled dissipation in many-body quantum systems. Here, we review recent theoretical and experimental progress in different directions along these lines, with a particular focus on physical realizations with systems of atoms and ions. This comprises digital quantum simulations in a general open system setting, as well as engineering and understanding new classes of systems far away from thermodynamic equilibrium.