David Weld, UC Santa Barbara
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
PAT C-520
Probing quantum dynamics in strongly-driven optical lattices
David Weld, UC Santa Barbara
Degenerate quantum gases in modulated optical lattices provide a near-ideal testbed for the experimental study of quantum matter driven far from equilibrium. I will discuss a sequence of recent experimental results: flexible Floquet engineering of band structure and transport properties, observation of relativistic harmonic motion, detailed experimental mapping of the properties of prethermal Floquet matter, and a measurement of anomalously slow heating in a rapidly driven interacting gas.