Quantum trajectories and open many-body quantum systems

AJ Daley - Advances in Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The study of open quantum systems–microscopic systems exhibiting quantum coherence
that are coupled to their environment–has become increasingly important in the past years …

Fermi-Hubbard physics with atoms in an optical lattice

T Esslinger - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2010 - annualreviews.org
The Fermi-Hubbard model is a key concept in condensed matter physics and provides
crucial insights into electronic and magnetic properties of materials. Yet, the intricate nature …

Thermalization near integrability in a dipolar quantum Newton's cradle

Y Tang, W Kao, KY Li, S Seo, K Mallayya, M Rigol… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Isolated quantum many-body systems with integrable dynamics generically do not
thermalize when taken far from equilibrium. As one perturbs such systems away from the …

Quantum states and phases in driven open quantum systems with cold atoms

S Diehl, A Micheli, A Kantian, B Kraus, HP Büchler… - Nature Physics, 2008 - nature.com
An open quantum system, the time evolution of which is governed by a master equation, can
be driven into a given pure quantum state by an appropriate design of the coupling between …

Quantum coherence and entanglement with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

I Bloch - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
At nanokelvin temperatures, ultracold quantum gases can be stored in optical lattices, which
are arrays of microscopic trapping potentials formed by laser light. Such large arrays of …

Engineered open systems and quantum simulations with atoms and ions

M Müller, S Diehl, G Pupillo, P Zoller - Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The enormous experimental progress in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics
during the last decades allows us nowadays to isolate single, a few or even many-body …

Cooling and entangling ultracold atoms in optical lattices

B Yang, H Sun, CJ Huang, HY Wang, Y Deng, HN Dai… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Scalable, coherent many-body systems can enable the realization of previously unexplored
quantum phases and have the potential to exponentially speed up information processing …

Quantum spin dimers from chiral dissipation in cold-atom chains

T Ramos, H Pichler, AJ Daley, P Zoller - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We consider the nonequilibrium dynamics of a driven dissipative spin chain with chiral
coupling to a one-dimensional (1D) bosonic bath, and its atomic implementation with a two …

Quantum computing with alkaline-earth-metal atoms

AJ Daley, MM Boyd, J Ye, P Zoller - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We present a complete scheme for quantum information processing using the unique
features of alkaline-earth-metal atoms. We show how two completely independent lattices …

Cooling in strongly correlated optical lattices: prospects and challenges

DC McKay, B DeMarco - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical lattices have emerged as ideal simulators for Hubbard models of strongly correlated
materials, such as the high-temperature superconducting cuprates. In optical lattice …