IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v465y2010i7295d10.1038_nature09036.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Time-resolved observation of coherent multi-body interactions in quantum phase revivals

Author

Listed:
  • Sebastian Will

    (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
    Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

  • Thorsten Best

    (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)

  • Ulrich Schneider

    (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
    Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

  • Lucia Hackermüller

    (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)

  • Dirk-Sören Lühmann

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg)

  • Immanuel Bloch

    (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
    Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
    Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)

Abstract

The sign of six Interactions between microscopic particles are usually described as two-body interactions, although it has been shown that higher order multi-body interactions could give rise to novel quantum phases with intriguing properties. This paper demonstrates effective six-body interactions in a system of ultracold bosonic atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice. The coherent multi-particle interactions observed here open a new window for simulations of effective field theories and may help to enable the realization of novel topologically ordered many-body quantum phases.

Suggested Citation

  • Sebastian Will & Thorsten Best & Ulrich Schneider & Lucia Hackermüller & Dirk-Sören Lühmann & Immanuel Bloch, 2010. "Time-resolved observation of coherent multi-body interactions in quantum phase revivals," Nature, Nature, vol. 465(7295), pages 197-201, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:465:y:2010:i:7295:d:10.1038_nature09036
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09036
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09036
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature09036?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:465:y:2010:i:7295:d:10.1038_nature09036. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.