Many-body physics with ultracold gases

I Bloch, J Dalibard, W Zwerger - Reviews of modern physics, 2008‏ - APS
This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical progress concerning many-body
phenomena in dilute, ultracold gases. It focuses on effects beyond standard weak-coupling …

Quantum spin squeezing

J Ma, X Wang, CP Sun, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This paper reviews quantum spin squeezing, which characterizes the sensitivity of a state
with respect to SU (2) rotations, and is significant for both entanglement detection and high …

Single-atom-resolved fluorescence imaging of an atomic Mott insulator

JF Sherson, C Weitenberg, M Endres, M Cheneau… - Nature, 2010‏ - nature.com
The reliable detection of single quantum particles has revolutionized the field of quantum
optics and quantum information processing. For several years, researchers have aspired to …

Spinor bose–einstein condensates

Y Kawaguchi, M Ueda - Physics Reports, 2012‏ - Elsevier
An overview of the physics of spinor and dipolar Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) is
given. Mean-field ground states, Bogoliubov spectra, and many-body ground and excited …

Probing the superfluid–to–mott insulator transition at the single-atom level

WS Bakr, A Peng, ME Tai, R Ma, J Simon, JI Gillen… - Science, 2010‏ - science.org
Quantum gases in optical lattices offer an opportunity to experimentally realize and explore
condensed matter models in a clean, tunable system. We used single atom–single lattice …

A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice

R Jördens, N Strohmaier, K Günter, H Moritz… - Nature, 2008‏ - nature.com
Strong interactions between electrons in a solid material can lead to surprising properties. A
prime example is the Mott insulator, in which suppression of conductivity occurs as a result …

Squeezing and entanglement in a Bose–Einstein condensate

J Esteve, C Gross, A Weller, S Giovanazzi… - Nature, 2008‏ - nature.com
Entanglement, a key feature of quantum mechanics, is a resource that allows the
improvement of precision measurements beyond the conventional bound attainable by …

Metallic and insulating phases of repulsively interacting fermions in a 3D optical lattice

U Schneider, L Hackermuller, S Will, T Best, I Bloch… - Science, 2008‏ - science.org
The fermionic Hubbard model plays a fundamental role in the description of strongly
correlated materials. We have realized this Hamiltonian in a repulsively interacting spin …

[ספר][B] Ultracold quantum fields

HTC Stoof, KB Gubbels, D Dickerscheid - 2009‏ - Springer
On June 19th 1999, the European Ministers of Education signed the Bologna Declaration,
with which they agreed that the European university education should be uniformized …

Mesoscopic atomic entanglement for precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit

J Appel, PJ Windpassinger, D Oblak, UB Hoff… - Proceedings of the …, 2009‏ - pnas.org
Squeezing of quantum fluctuations by means of entanglement is a well-recognized goal in
the field of quantum information science and precision measurements. In particular …