Atomic Molecular Optical Physics Seminar: Toshihiko Shimasaki, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Exploration of New Phenomena in Driven Quantum Gases”

Ultracold atoms in modulated optical potentials provide new opportunities to study quantum gases away from equilibrium. In this talk, I will report several experiments performed in this direction in the Weld group at UC Santa Barbara. In particular, I will talk about Floquet prethemalization in a driven optical lattice, study of quasicrystals with a bichromatic optical lattice, and quantum simulation of ultrafast phenomena.
Host: David DeMille (david.demille@yale.edu)