Observation of supermode-density-wave-polariton condensation in a multimode cavity QED-BEC system
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Investigations of many-body physics in an AMO context often employ a static optical lattice to create a periodic potential. Such systems, while capable of exploring, e.g., the Hubbard model, lack the fully emergent crystalline order found in solid state systems whose stiffness is not imposed externally, but arises dynamically. In this thesis we describe a new multimode cavity — 87Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) apparatus aimed at introducing a new method of generating fully emergent and compliant optical lattices to the ultracold atom toolbox and providing new avenues to explore quantum liquid crystalline order. We describe the design and construction of the apparatus which combines a 87Rb BEC and an adjustable-length high-finesse optical cavity that can be tuned from single to multimode configuration. We will present calibration of the machine in both single and multimode configurations, as well as the first observation of a supermode- density-wave-polariton condensate, where the BEC develops density-wave order in the linear combination of cavity modes that optimizes the superradiant self-organization transition induced by transverse pumping.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Kollár, Alicia Jennifer |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Applied Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Lev, Benjamin |
| Thesis advisor | Lev, Benjamin |
| Thesis advisor | Hollberg, Leo (Leo William) |
| Thesis advisor | Kivelson, Steven |
| Advisor | Hollberg, Leo (Leo William) |
| Advisor | Kivelson, Steven |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alicia Jennifer Kollár. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Applied Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Alicia Jennifer Kollar
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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