Connecting Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless and BEC Phase Transitions by Tuning Interactions in a Trapped Gas

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 114:25 (2015) 255302

Authors:

Richard J Fletcher, Martin Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, Jay Man, Nir Navon, Robert P Smith, Konrad GH Viebahn, Zoran Hadzibabic

Superconductivity in graphite intercalation compounds

(2015)

Authors:

Robert P Smith, Thomas E Weller, Christopher A Howard, Mark PM Dean, Kaveh C Rahnejat, Siddharth S Saxena, Mark Ellerby

Connecting Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless and BEC phase transitions by tuning interactions in a trapped gas

(2015)

Authors:

Richard J Fletcher, Martin Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, Jay Man, Nir Navon, Robert P Smith, Konrad GH Viebahn, Zoran Hadzibabic

Critical dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous Bose gas

Science American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 347:6218 (2015) 167-170

Authors:

Nir Navon, Alexander L Gaunt, Robert P Smith, Zoran Hadzibabic

Abstract:

Breaking the symmetry in an atomic gas Cooling a physical system through a phase transition typically makes it less symmetrical. If the cooling is done very slowly, this symmetry change is uniform throughout the system. For a faster cooling process, the system breaks up into domains: The faster the cooling, the smaller the domains. Navon et al. studied this process in an ultracold gas of Rb atoms near its transition to a condensed state (see the Perspective by Ferrari). The authors found that the size of the domains froze in time in the vicinity of the transition and that it depended on the cooling speed, as predicted by theory. Science , this issue p. 167 ; see also p. 127

Critical Dynamics of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Homogeneous Bose gas

(2014)

Authors:

Nir Navon, Alexander L Gaunt, Robert P Smith, Zoran Hadzibabic