17–22 Jul 2022
Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
America/Toronto timezone

Emergent atom pump in a non-hermitian system

18 Jul 2022, 17:00
1h 30m
Hart House (Hart House)

Hart House

Hart House

7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Poster presentation Degenerate gases, many-body physics, and quantum simulation Poster session

Description

The time evolution of a quantum system can be strongly affected by dissipation. Although this mainly implies that the system relaxes to a steady state, in some cases it can make new phases appear and trigger emergent dynamics. In our experiment, we study a Bose-Einstein Condensate dispersively coupled to a high finesse resonator. The cavity is pumped via the atoms, such that the sum of the coupling beam(s) and the intracavity standing wave gives an optical lattice potential. When the dissipation and the coherent timescales are comparable, we find a regime of persistent oscillations where the cavity field does not reach a steady state. In this regime the atoms experience an optical lattice that periodically deforms itself, even without providing an external time dependent drive. Eventually, the dynamic lattice triggers a pumping mechanism. We show complementary measurements of the light field dynamics and of the particle transport, proving the connection between the emergent non-stationarity and the atomic pump.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11502

Presenter name Simon Hertlein

Primary authors

Simon Hertlein (ETH Zurich) Dr Davide Dreon (ETH Zurich) Mr Alexander Baumgärtner (ETH Zurich) Dr Xiangliang Li (ETH Zurich) Prof. Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich) Dr Tobias Donner (ETH Zurich)

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