(Download) "Non-equilibrium Dynamics of One-Dimensional Bose Gases" by Tim Langen # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Non-equilibrium Dynamics of One-Dimensional Bose Gases
- Author : Tim Langen
- Release Date : January 22, 2015
- Genre: Physics,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4667 KB
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This work presents a series of experiments with ultracold one-dimensional Bose gases, which establish said gases as an ideal model system for exploring a wide range of non-equilibrium phenomena. With the help of newly developed tools, like full distributions functions and phase correlation functions, the book reveals the emergence of thermal-like transient states, the light-cone-like emergence of thermal correlations and the observation of generalized thermodynamic ensembles. This points to a natural emergence of classical statistical properties from the microscopic unitary quantum evolution, and lays the groundwork for a universal framework of non-equilibrium physics. The thesis investigates a central question that is highly contested in quantum physics: how and to which extent does an isolated quantum many-body system relax? This question arises in many diverse areas of physics, and many of the open problems appear at vastly different energy, time and length scales, ranging from high-energy physics and cosmology to condensed matter and quantum information. A key challenge in attempting to answer this question is the scarcity of quantum many-body systems that are both well isolated from the environment and accessible for experimental study.