Simulating cosmological supercooling with a cold-atom system

Ideal mean-field transition in a modulated cold atom system.

We show that an atomic system in a periodically modulated optical trap displays an ideal mean-field symmetry-breaking transition. The symmetry is broken with respect to time translation by the modulation period. We describe experimental observations and develop a full microscopic theory of the observed critical phenomena. The transition is explained as resulting from the interplay of the long-r...

Cold Matter Assembled Atom-by-Atom

Manuel Endres, 2, ∗ Hannes Bernien, ∗ Alexander Keesling, ∗ Harry Levine, ∗ Eric R. Anschuetz, Alexandre Krajenbrink, † Crystal Senko, Vladan Vuletic, Markus Greiner, and Mikhail D. Lukin Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Department of Physics and Researc...

A cold atom pyramidal gravimeter with a single laser beam

Cold dark matter models with a cosmological constant

We use linear and quasi-linear perturbation theory to analyse cold dark matter models of structure formation in spatially flat models with a cosmological constant. Both a tilted spectrum of density perturbations and a significant gravitational wave contribution to the microwave anisotropy are allowed as possibilities. We provide normalizations of the models to microwave anisotropies, as given b...

Cold-atom scanning probe microscopy.

Scanning probe microscopes are widely used to study surfaces with atomic resolution in many areas of nanoscience. Ultracold atomic gases trapped in electromagnetic potentials can be used to study electromagnetic interactions between the atoms and nearby surfaces in chip-based systems. Here we demonstrate a new type of scanning probe microscope that combines these two areas of research by using ...