Localization and control in driven quantum matter
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Abstract
Degenerate gases are a flexible testbed for the control and study of quantum matter driven far from equilibrium. I will highlight recent experimental progress in this area, from the observation of light-induced critical phases to exotic stabilization dynamics under ultra-strong driving to the realization of interactive quantum matter, in which unitary dynamics are coupled with weak measurement and feedback.
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Publication: Exploring light-induced phases of 2D materials in a modulated 1D quasicrystal. Y. Bai, A.R. Dardia, T. Shimasaki, and D.M. Weld, arXiv:2506.11984 (2025). (Accepted for publication in PRX).
Continuously trapped matter-wave interferometry in magic Floquet-Bloch band structures. X. Chai, J.L. Tanlimco, E. Nolasco-Martinez, X. Liang, E.Q. Simmons, E. Zhu, R. Sajjad, H. Mas, S.N. Halawani, A. Cao, and D.M. Weld, arXiv:2506.11881 (2025). (Accepted for publication in Nature Communications).
Presenters
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David Weld
- University of California, Santa Barbara