A. Ulhaq, S. Weiler, S. M. Ulrich, R. Roßbach, M. Jetter & P. Michler
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Cascaded single-photon emission from the Mollow triplet sidebands of a quantum dot
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Spontaneous coherence in a cold exciton gas
A. A. High, J. R. Leonard, A. T. Hammack, M. M. Fogler, L. V. Butov, A. V. Kavokin, K. L. Campman & A. C. Gossard
If bosonic particles are cooled down below the temperature of quantum degeneracy, they can spontaneously form a coherent state in which individual matter waves synchronize and combine. Spontaneous coherence of matter waves forms the basis of a number of fundamental phenomena in physics, including superconductivity, superfluidity and Bose–Einstein condensation1, 2. Spontaneous coherence is the key characteristic of condensation in momentum space3. Excitons—bound pairs of electrons and holes—form a model system to explore the quantum physics of cold bosons in solids4, 5. Cold exciton gases can be realized in a system of indirect excitons, which can cool down below the temperature of quantum degeneracy owing to their long lifetimes6. Here we report measurements of spontaneous coherence in a gas of indirect excitons. We found that spontaneous coherence of excitons emerges in the region of the macroscopically ordered exciton state7 and in the region of vortices of linear polarization. The coherence length in these regions is much larger than in a classical gas, indicating a coherent state with a much narrower than classical exciton distribution in momentum space, characteristic of a condensate. A pattern of extended spontaneous coherence is correlated with a pattern of spontaneous polarization, revealing the properties of a multicomponent coherent state. We also observed phase singularities in the coherent exciton gas. All these phenomena emerge when the exciton gas is cooled below a few kelvin.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Observation of Quantum Criticality with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Xibo Zhang, Chen-Lung Hung, Shih-Kuang Tung, Cheng Chin
Adiabatic Passage with Spin Locking in Tm3+
María Florencia Pascual-Winter, Robert-Christopher Tongning, Romain Lauro, Anne Louchet-Chauvet, Thierry Chanelière, Jean-Louis Le Gouët
Dynamical Casmir Effect Using SQUIDS
C. M. Wilson, G. Johansson, A. Pourkabirian, M. Simoen, J. R. Johansson, T. Duty, F. Nori & P. Delsing
Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture
Christoph Kohstall, Matteo Zaccanti, Michael Jag, Andreas Trenkwalder, Pietro Massignan, Georg M. Bruun, Florian Schreck, Rudolf Grimm
Relaxation Dynamics and Pre-thermalization in an Isolated Quantum System
Michael Gring, Maximilian Kuhnert, Tim Langen, Takuya Kitagawa, Bernhard Rauer, Matthias Schreitl, Igor Mazets, David A. Smith, Eugene Demler, Jörg Schmiedmayer
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