papers

Publications (5)

cond-mat.quant-gas2015

Parametric Excitation and Squeezing in a Many-Body Spin System

T. M. Hoang, M. Anquez, B. A. Robbins +4

We demonstrate a new method to coherently excite and control the quantum spin states of an atomic Bose gas using parametric excitation of the collective spin by time varying the re…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015

Characterizing the energy gap and demonstrating an adiabatic quench in an interacting spin system

T. M. Hoang, M. Anquez, M. J. Boguslawski +3

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in a physical system whenever the ground state does not share the symmetry of the underlying theory, e.g., the Hamiltonian. It gives rise to ma…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015

Kibble-Zurek Mechanism in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. Anquez, B. A. Robbins, H. M. Bharath +3

We observe power-law scaling of the temporal onset of excitations with quench speed in the neighborhood of the quantum phase transition between the polar and broken-axisymmetry pha…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012

Non-equilibrium dynamics of an unstable quantum pendulum

C. S. Gerving, T. M. Hoang, B. J. Land +3

A pendulum prepared perfectly inverted and motionless is a prototype of unstable equilibria and corresponds to an unstable hyperbolic fixed point in the dynamical phase space. Unst…

cond-mat.quant-gas2013

Dynamic stabilization of a quantum many-body spin system

T. M. Hoang, C. S. Gerving, B. J. Land +3

We demonstrate dynamic stabilization of an unstable strongly interacting quantum many-body system by periodic manipulation of the phase of the collective states. The experiment emp…