Group Seminar at MPQ: Lattice-trapped lithium as tunable Floquet matter
David Weld, UC Santa Barbara
David Weld, UC Santa Barbara
MPQ Garching, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1,
Herbert-Walther lecture hall
Tuesday 07/23, 9:15am
Lattice-trapped lithium as tunable Floquet matter
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David Weld, UC Santa Barbara
Degenerate lithium in modulated optical lattices makes a near-ideal
testbed for the experimental study of quantum matter driven far from
equilibrium. I will present a sequence of recent experimental results:
flexible Floquet engineering of band structure and transport properties,
direct imaging of Floquet-Bloch bands using position-space Bloch
oscillations, detailed experimental mapping of the properties of
prethermal Floquet matter, and an observation of anomalously slow
heating in a rapidly driven interacting gas.