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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 37: Matter At Low Temperature: Quantum Liquids, Bose-Einstein Condensates, Ultra-cold Atoms, ... 2

TT 37.13: Talk

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:45–13:00, H 3005

Non-adiabatic ramps in quantum many-particle systems — •Masud Haque — Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems

A change of system parameter can be neither truly instantaneous nor truly adiabatic in real life. For several quantum many-particle systems, I will consider non-equilibrium dynamics induced by finite-rate ramps. The ramp rate extrapolates between an instantaneous quench and an adiabatic sweep. I will characterize the deviation from adiabaticity through the excess energy or "heating" of the system.

For cold-atom systems in a harmonic trapping potential, I will show that the non-adiabatic heating in finite-time ramps has universal features common to a wide range of systems.