Lattice-trapped lithium as tunable Floquet matter
COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited
Abstract
Degenerate lithium in modulated optical lattices makes a near-ideal testbed for the experimental study of quantum matter driven far from equilibrium. We will present a sequence of recent experimental results: flexible Floquet engineering of band structure and transport properties, direct imaging of Floquet-Bloch bands using position-space Bloch oscillations, detailed experimental mapping of the properties of prethermal Floquet matter, and an observation of anomalously slow heating in a rapidly driven interacting gas.
*We acknowledge support from the Army Research Office (PECASE W911NF1410154 and MURI W911NF1710323) and the National Science Foundation (CAREER 1555313).
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