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arXiv:1810.12638 · Physical Review A

Relaxation and hysteresis near Shapiro resonances in a driven spinor condensate

Bertrand Evrard, An Qu, Karina Jiménez-García, Jean Dalibard, Fabrice Gerbier

Published Aug 6, 2019• 22 citations
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Abstract

A spinor Bose-Einstein condensate is experimentally shown to provide an accurate benchmark for testing theoretical models of relaxation processes. The work can help advance our understanding of nonequilibrium phenomena in quantum many-body systems.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.100.023604

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