Uniform Bose gases

  • Date: May 20, 2014
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Professor Zoran Hadzibabic, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPQ
"For almost two decades harmonically-trapped ultracold atomic gases have been used with great success to study fundamental many-body physics in a flexible experimental setting. Recently, we achieved the first atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in an essentially uniform potential of an optical-box trap [1]. This opens unprecedented possibilities for closer connections with other many-body systems and the textbook models that rely on the translational symmetry of the system. I will present our first experiments on this new system, including the first observation of the quantum Joule-Thomson effect [2], which was theoretically predicted more than 70 years ago.[1] A. L. Gaunt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 200406 (2013)[2] T. F. Schmidutz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 040403 (2014)"
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