Floquet heating in interacting atomic gases with an oscillating force

2019/06/20 by Jun-Ru Li, Boris Shteynas, Wolfgang Ketterle · 15 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Floquet theory #Kinetic energy #Pauli exclusion principle #Physics #Quantum #Quantum many-body systems #Quantum mechanics #Semiclassical physics #Sigma #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.quant-gas #physics.atom-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.100.033406

published in Physical Review A 100(3) (American Physical Society) · 13 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2019/06/20 · openalex publication_date 2019/09/09 · arxiv updated 2019/09/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Collisional heating of a cold-atom system subjected to time-periodic forces is investigated theoretically. A general description of the heating rate is proposed and the crossover between the quantum and semiclassical regimes is identified.

Citations

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• Realization of the Hofstadter Hamiltonian with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
• Pauli Blocking of Collisions in a Quantum Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gas
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