Emergence of coherence and the dynamics of quantum phase transitions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3641-3646

  Braun, Simon ^a,b   Friesdorf, Mathis ^c   Hodgman, Sean S ^a,b   Schreiber, Michael ^a,b   Ronzheimer, Jens Philipp ^a,b   Riera, Arnau ^c,d   Del Rey, Marco ^e   Bloch, Immanuel ^a,b   Eisert, Jens ^c   Schneider, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mott insulator; Nonequilibrium dynamics; Optical lattice; Quantum simulation; Ultracold atoms

Indexed keywords

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ENTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY;

EID: 84925434842     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1408861112     Document Type: Article

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