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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
From classical to quantum glasses with ultracold polar molecules
Wolfgang Lechner1, Peter Zoller
1Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Abstract:
We study the dynamics of a bilayer system of ultracold polar molecules, which exhibits classical and quantum glassy behavior, characterized by long tails in the relaxation time and dynamical heterogeneity. In the proposed setup, quantum fluctuations are of the order of thermal fluctuations and the degree of frustration can be tuned by the interlayer distance. We discuss the possible observation of a glassy anomalous diffusion and dynamical heterogeneity in experiment using internal degrees of freedom of the molecules in combination with optical detection.
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