Probing correlated quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level /

Probing correlated quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level /

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Author / Creator:	Endres, Manuel, author.
Imprint:	Cham : Springer, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 165 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:	English
Series:	Springer theses, 2190-5053 Springer theses,
Subject:	Many-body problem. Many-body problem.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11084875

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ISBN:	9783319057538 3319057537 3319057529 9783319057521 9783319057521
Notes:	"Doctoral thesis accepted by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany." Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 6, 2014).
Summary:	How much knowledge can we gain about a physical system and to what degree can we control it? In quantum optical systems, such as ion traps or neutral atoms in cavities, single particles and their correlations can now be probed in a way that is fundamentally limited only by the laws of quantum mechanics. In contrast, quantum many-body systems pose entirely new challenges due to the enormous number of microscopic parameters and their small length- and short time-scales. This thesis describes a new approach to probing quantum many-body systems at the level of individual particles: Using high-resolution, single-particle-resolved imaging and manipulation of strongly correlated atoms, single atoms can be detected and manipulated due to the large length and time-scales and the precise control of internal degrees of freedom. Such techniques lay stepping stones for the experimental exploration of new quantum many-body phenomena and applications thereof, such as quantum simulation and quantum information, through the design of systems at the microscopic scale and the measurement of previously inaccessible observables.
Other form:	Printed edition: 9783319057521
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-05753-8

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Superfluid-Mott-insulator transition
Overview of the experimental procedure
Single-site-resolved imaging and thermometry of atomic limit Mott insulators
Detection of particle-hole pairs using two-site correlation functions
Non-local correlations in one dimension
Non-local correlations in two dimensions, duality and distribution functions
Introduction to amplitude and phase modes
Detection of the Higgs amplitude mode at the 2d SF-Mott-insulator transition.