Free fall of a quantum many-body system

Quantum Many Body System at Integer Coupling

The 1/r2 quantum many body problem, and the closely related Haldane-Shastry 1/r2 Heisenberg chain, are the subject of intense theoretical study at present, due in part to their relationship to an ideal gas obeying fractional statistics (see [1] for a review). One direction of study has been the exact calculation of some ground state correlation functions [1-5]. Let us briefly summarize the main...

Coherent imaging spectroscopy of a quantum many-body spin system

Dynamic stabilization of a quantum many-body spin system.

We demonstrate dynamic stabilization of a strongly interacting quantum spin system realized in a spin-1 atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The spinor Bose-Einstein condensate is initialized to an unstable fixed point of the spin-nematic phase space, where subsequent free evolution gives rise to squeezing and quantum spin mixing. To stabilize the system, periodic microwave pulses are applied that ...

Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system.

We study the statistics of the work done, fluctuation relations, and irreversible entropy production in a quantum many-body system subject to the sudden quench of a control parameter. By treating the quench as a thermodynamic transformation we show that the emergence of irreversibility in the nonequilibrium dynamics of closed many-body quantum systems can be accurately characterized. We demonst...

Simulations of Many-Body Quantum Systems by a Quantum Computer

We suggest that quantum computers can solve quantum many-body problems that are impracticable to solve on a classical computer. The classical many-body problem has been largely solved by the classical computer. For example the position of the planets in the solar system can now be predicted with an accuracy as great as the accuracy of the observations. On the other hand, quantum many-body probl...