Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of atomic ensembles

L Pezze, A Smerzi, MK Oberthaler, R Schmied… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to revolutionize computing, measurements, and
communications. This has stimulated the research in different areas of physics to engineer …

Colloquium: Atomtronic circuits: From many-body physics to quantum technologies

L Amico, D Anderson, M Boshier, JP Brantut… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Atomtronics is an emerging field that aims to manipulate ultracold atom moving in matter-
wave circuits for fundamental studies in both quantum science and technological …

Experimental observation of a generalized Gibbs ensemble

T Langen, S Erne, R Geiger, B Rauer, T Schweigler… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The description of the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum many-body systems
within the framework of statistical mechanics is a fundamental open question. Conventional …

Relaxation and prethermalization in an isolated quantum system

M Gring, M Kuhnert, T Langen, T Kitagawa, B Rauer… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Understanding relaxation processes is an important unsolved problem in many areas of
physics. A key challenge is the scarcity of experimental tools for the characterization of …

Fano resonances in nanoscale structures

AE Miroshnichenko, S Flach, YS Kivshar - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Modern nanotechnology allows one to scale down various important devices (sensors,
chips, fibers, etc.) and thus opens up new horizons for their applications. The efficiency of …

Many-body physics with ultracold gases

I Bloch, J Dalibard, W Zwerger - Reviews of modern physics, 2008 - APS
This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical progress concerning many-body
phenomena in dilute, ultracold gases. It focuses on effects beyond standard weak-coupling …

Interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity

H Müntinga, H Ahlers, M Krutzik, A Wenzlawski… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Atom interferometers covering macroscopic domains of space-time are a spectacular
manifestation of the wave nature of matter. Because of their unique coherence properties …

Atom-chip-based generation of entanglement for quantum metrology

MF Riedel, P Böhi, Y Li, TW Hänsch, A Sinatra… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Atom chips provide a versatile quantum laboratory for experiments with ultracold atomic
gases. They have been used in diverse experiments involving low-dimensional quantum …

Local emergence of thermal correlations in an isolated quantum many-body system

T Langen, R Geiger, M Kuhnert, B Rauer… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Understanding the dynamics of isolated quantum many-body systems is a central open
problem at the intersection between statistical physics and quantum physics. Despite …

Optics and interferometry with atoms and molecules

AD Cronin, J Schmiedmayer, DE Pritchard - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
Interference with atomic and molecular matter waves is a rich branch of atomic physics and
quantum optics. It started with atom diffraction from crystal surfaces and the separated …