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current members: Lauriane Chomaz, Laura Corman, Tom Bienaimé, Jean-Loup Ville, Raphaël de Saint-Jalmformer members: R. Desbuquois, C. Weitenberg, D. Perconte, K. Kleinklein, A. Invernizzipermanent members: Sylvain Nascimbene, Jérôme Beugnon, Jean Dalibard
References : Phys. Rev. Lett. 103:135302 (2014) & Nat. Comm. 6:6162 (2015)
Out‐of‐equilibrium physics with Bose gases in 2D geometries
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Zurek’s experiment
Zurek Nature 317, 505 – 508 (1985)
Quench cooling of helium confined in a ring should lead to the creation of superfluid currents
phase domains
Typical size
See del Campo, A. & Zurek, W. H. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 29, 1430018 (2014)) Kibble, T. Physics Today 60(9), 47 (2007)
KZ mechanism is used to described many different experiments :Cosmology, liquid helium, squids, ferroelectrics, liquid crystals, ion chains, quantum gases, ….
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Zurek’s experiment
Zurek Nature 317, 505 – 508 (1985)
Quench cooling of helium confined in a ring should lead to the creation of superfluid currents
Kibble‐Zurek mechanism predicts :
Thermalization timeCorrelation length
Experiments in the Cambridge team 3D BEC : Navon et al. Science 347, 167 (2015)
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Zurek’s experimentSuperfluid current are generated stochastically during the merging of the phase domains
Number of phase domains : Ring perimeter
Phase winding
Phase winding
Zurek J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 25, 404209 (2013)
Examples :
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How to trap an ultracold gas in a ring ?
How to detect the superfluid current ?
Which phase transition are we crossing ?
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Single blue detuned laser beam with a central node (Hermite‐Gauss)
z
laser intensity
view from the side
Vertical confinement 2D cloud
104 to 105 atoms
Temperature controlled by evaporation: 10 to 250 nK
How to trap an ultracold gas in a ring ?Start from a standard 3D 87Rb cloud
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Single blue detuned laser beam with a central node (Hermite‐Gauss)
z
laser intensity
view from the side
Vertical confinement 2D cloud
104 to 105 atoms
mask
atom plane
Image a mask on the atom plane
z
View from above
g
Temperature controlled by evaporation: 10 to 250 nK
Start from a standard 3D 87Rb BECHorizontal confinement flat‐bottom
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How to trap an ultracold gas in a ring ?
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How to trap an ultracold gas in a ring …
… or anything else
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Rapid cooling (~ 50 ms 2s ) via lowering the trap depthHold time (500 ms 2s)2D expansion in plane (7 ms)
Quantized circulation of superfluid currents
In situ Phase patterns
After expansion
9Similar experiments at NIST Eckel et al. Phys. Rev. X 4, 031052 (2014)
How to detect superfluid currents ?
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How to detect superfluid currents ?Stochatisc origine :
No imbalance between positive and negative winding
Incompatible with thermal excitation
Typical lifetime : 7s : comparable with the sample lifetime.
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Bulk vortices in a square trapRapid cooling (~ 50 ms 2s ) via lowering the trap depthHold time (500 ms 2s)Short 3D time‐of‐flight (4 ms)
Clear signature of high contrast quantum vortices
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Lamporesi et al. Nature Physics 9,656–660 (2013) Donadello et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065302 (2014)
Related work in Trento (solitonic vortices in a 3D harmonic trap):
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For an ideal infinite uniform system no Bose‐Einstein condensation at non zero temperature
For a ideal finite system Bose‐Einstein condensation is possible for
For an interacting Bose gas a superfluid (BKT) phase appears a low temperature
For our parameters, BEC and BKT appears for a 2D phase‐space density
Thermal Quasi‐condensate BEC/Superfluid
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Which phase transition are we crossing ?
2D phase diagram
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Which phase transition are we crossing ?
Vertical confinement
non degenerate 3D cloud
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Which phase transition are we crossing ?
Vertical confinement
Vertical confinement
Superfluid 2D cloud
measurement
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What phase transition are we crossing ?
Vertical confinement
Vertical confinement
Superfluid 2D cloud
measurement
non degenerate 3D cloud
Transverse condensation : All atoms accumulate in the groundstate of the motion along the vertical direction : fast increase ofEquivalent to 3D BEC transition
Thermal Quasi‐condensate BEC/Superfluid
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2D phase diagram
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Results
Square box
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Square box Annulus
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Results
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Comparison with Kibble‐Zurek prediction
Thermalization time
Correlation length
Theory
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Comparison with Kibble‐Zurek prediction
Thermalization time
Correlation length
Theory
Results
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(Corrected slope for small number of vortices)
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Comparison with Kibble‐Zurek prediction
Thermalization time
Correlation length
Theory
Results
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Difficulties :‐ Few defects (large statistics required)‐ Limited range for quench time‐ Small value for the exponent‐ Complex behaviour after the quench
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Transverse condensationFor an anisotropic system : two‐step condensation is possible :
‐ condense in the vertical direction to get a 2D system‐ fully condense in 3D
Surface density in the transverse excited states is bounded :
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already observed in 1D systems : Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093601 (2013)Phys. Rev. A 83 (2), 021605 (2011)
BEC
transverse BEC
At this point coherence is created in plane : with
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Emergence of coherence
Study the coherence of the gas at equilibrium around the transverse condensation crossover
momentum distribution via Time‐of‐flight measurements
in situ
time‐of‐flight
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Emergence of coherence
Study the coherence of the gas at equilibrium around the transverse condensation crossover
momentum distribution via Time‐of‐flight measurements
ρ (μm-2)
N1
N2
bimodality parameter : 23
in situ
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Emergence of coherence
Study the coherence of the gas at equilibrium around the transverse condensation crossover
momentum distribution via interference measurementsafter in plane expansion (16ms)
in situ
2D in‐plane expansion
is a good signature for the emergence of coherence
T = 185 – 200 nK
NFit along a horizontal line by :
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Mapping the transition
Slope =1.4 (3)
Critical point for the emergence of coherence
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Regime for the quench experiments
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Mapping the transition
Slope =1.4 (3)
critical point for the emergence of coherence
Usual 2D gas. Coherence before BKT/BEC transition : Quasi‐condensate
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Regime for the quench experiments
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Results summary and outlookflat bottom potentials with various shapes
future : Spatial light modulator
Measurements of critical exponents
future : improved statistics, coarse graining dynamics after the quench, quench through BKT transition
Characterization of the coherence in quasi 2D geometry
future : direct measurements of correlationfunctions in BEC, BKT phases.
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New experiment
2 microscope objectiveswith NA=0.45
Resolution ~ 1 µm
atomic cloud imaging
direct imaging of a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD)
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New experiment
Resolution ~ 1 µm
Atomic clouds in custom flat‐bottom potentials
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current members: Lauriane Chomaz, Laura Corman, Tom Bienaimé, Jean-Loup Ville, Raphaël de Saint-Jalmformer members: R. Desbuquois, C. Weitenberg, D. Perconte, K. Kleinklein, A. Invernizzipermanent members: Sylvain Nascimbène, Jérôme Beugnon, Jean Dalibard
References : Phys. Rev. Lett. 103:135302 (2014) & Nat. Comm. 6:6162 (2015)
Out‐of‐equilibrium physics with Bose gases in 2D geometries
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Characterizing the fringe contrast
1D Fourier transform
✤Look for extended coherence:
✤1‐Body corr. on complex fringe contrast:
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Transverse condensation
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Hole Nature:= single vortices
≠ phonons
≠ pairs of vor ces
similar properties at a given τ+ high contrast
constant contrast and increasing size with τ
Dynamical orgin:✤ Equilibrium expectation at final PSD (>100) = vanishingly small mean vortex number Nv. Experimentally Nv≈ 0.6✤ BKT theory at final PSD = vortices must be tightly paired.✤ Dissipative dynamic (variation of Nv ) with a varying hold me ≠ equilibrium.
τ = 4.5 ms
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Vortices
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Where is the vortex located?
Experimental observation: we never observe a density hole in the small central disk, even after 3D time‐of‐flight
Energetic argument: what is the energy required for creating a vortex in one of the two parts of the “target”?
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15 m
vortex in the outer ring vortex in the inner disk
<energetically favoured
The energy of a vortex is essentially kinetic