Quantum mixtures of ultracold gases of neutral atoms

C Baroni, G Lamporesi, M Zaccanti - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
After decades of improvements in cooling techniques of several atomic species and in
finding methods for the achievement of stable quantum mixtures, the field is now ready for …

Universal many-body response of heavy impurities coupled to a Fermi sea: a review of recent progress

R Schmidt, M Knap, DA Ivanov, JS You… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this report we discuss the dynamical response of heavy quantum impurities immersed in a
Fermi gas at zero and at finite temperature. Studying both the frequency and the time …

Ultrafast many-body interferometry of impurities coupled to a Fermi sea

M Cetina, M Jag, RS Lous, I Fritsche, JTM Walraven… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The fastest possible collective response of a quantum many-body system is related to its
excitations at the highest possible energy. In condensed matter systems, the time scale for …

Repulsive Fermi and Bose polarons in quantum gases

F Scazza, M Zaccanti, P Massignan, MM Parish… - Atoms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polaron quasiparticles are formed when a mobile impurity is coupled to the elementary
excitations of a many-particle background. In the field of ultracold atoms, the study of the …

Extracting quantum work statistics and fluctuation theorems by single-qubit interferometry

R Dorner, SR Clark, L Heaney, R Fazio, J Goold… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We propose an experimental scheme to verify the quantum nonequilibrium fluctuation
relations using current technology. Specifically, we show that the characteristic function of …

Measuring the characteristic function of the work distribution

L Mazzola, G De Chiara, M Paternostro - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We propose an interferometric setting for the ancilla-assisted measurement of the
characteristic function of the work distribution following a time-dependent process …

Spectral filtering induced by non-hermitian evolution with balanced gain and loss: Enhancing quantum chaos

J Cornelius, Z Xu, A Saxena, A Chenu, A Del Campo - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The dynamical signatures of quantum chaos in an isolated system are captured by the
spectral form factor, which exhibits as a function of time a dip, a ramp, and a plateau, with the …

Time-dependent impurity in ultracold fermions: Orthogonality catastrophe and beyond

M Knap, A Shashi, Y Nishida, A Imambekov… - Physical Review X, 2012 - APS
The recent experimental realization of strongly imbalanced mixtures of ultracold atoms
opens new possibilities for studying impurity dynamics in a controlled setting. In this paper …

Thermometry of strongly correlated fermionic quantum systems using impurity probes

G Mihailescu, S Campbell, AK Mitchell - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We study quantum-impurity models as a platform for quantum thermometry. A single
quantum spin-1 2 impurity is coupled to an explicit, structured, fermionic thermal sample …

In Situ Thermometry of a Cold Fermi Gas via Dephasing Impurities

MT Mitchison, T Fogarty, G Guarnieri, S Campbell… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The precise measurement of low temperatures is a challenging, important, and fundamental
task for quantum science. In particular, in situ thermometry is highly desirable for cold atomic …