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Ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices
Immanuel Blochsubject
Condensed Matter::Quantum GasesPhysicsbusiness.industryOptical physicsPhysics::OpticsGeneral Physics and AstronomyFermionQuantum phasesPhysicistQuantum gateQuantum mechanicsPhotonicsbusinessQuantumBosondescription
Artificial crystals of light, consisting of hundreds of thousands of optical microtraps, are routinely created by interfering optical laser beams. These so-called optical lattices act as versatile potential landscapes to trap ultracold quantum gases of bosons and fermions. They form powerful model systems of quantum many-body systems in periodic potentials for probing nonlinear wave dynamics and strongly correlated quantum phases, building fundamental quantum gates or observing Fermi surfaces in periodic potentials. Optical lattices represent a fast-paced modern and interdisciplinary field of research.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-10-01 | Nature Physics |