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physics.optics2023

Single-pixel transmission matrix recovery via 2-photon fluorescence

Shupeng Zhao, Bernhard Rauer, Lorenzo Valzania +5

Imaging at depth in opaque materials has long been a challenge. Recently, wavefront shaping has enabled significant advance for deep imaging. Nevertheless, most non-invasive wavefr…

physics.optics2022

Scattering correcting wavefront shaping for three-photon microscopy

Bernhard Rauer, Hilton B. de Aguiar, Laurent Bourdieu +1

Three-photon (3P) microscopy is getting traction due to its superior performance in deep tissues. Yet, aberrations and light scattering still pose one of the main limitations in th…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 52 cited

Experimental verification of the area law of mutual information in a quantum field simulator

Mohammadamin Tajik, Ivan Kukuljan, Spyros Sotiriadis +10

Theoretical understanding of the scaling of entropies and the mutual information has led to significant advances in the research of correlated states of matter, quantum field theor…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Non-invasive chemically selective energy delivery and focusing inside a scattering medium guided by Raman scattering

Bingxin Tian, Bernhard Rauer, Antoine Boniface +4

Raman scattering is a chemically selective probing mechanism with diverse applications in industry and clinical settings. Yet, most samples are optically opaque limiting the applic…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Temporal light control in complex media through the singular value decomposition of the time-gated transmission matrix

Louisiane Devaud, Bernhard Rauer, Matthias Kühmayer +4

The complex temporal behavior of an ultrashort pulse of light propagating through a multiply scattering medium can be characterized experimentally through a time-gated transmission…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 43 cited

Emergent Pauli blocking in a weakly interacting Bose gas

Federica Cataldini, Frederik Møller, Mohammadamin Tajik +6

The relationship between many-body interactions and dimensionality is integral to numerous emergent quantum phenomena. A striking example is the Bose gas, which upon confinement to…

quant-ph2021★ 9 cited

Mechanisms for the emergence of Gaussian correlations

Marek Gluza, Thomas Schweigler, Mohammadamin Tajik +8

We comprehensively investigate two distinct mechanisms leading to memory loss of non-Gaussian correlations after switching off the interactions in an isolated quantum system underg…

physics.optics2020★ 23 cited

Speckle engineering through singular value decomposition of the transmission matrix

Louisiane Devaud, Bernhard Rauer, Jakob Melchard +3

Speckle patterns are ubiquitous in optics and have multiple applications for which the control of their spatial correlations is essential. Here, we report on a method to engineer s…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 47 cited

Decay and recurrence of non-Gaussian correlations in a quantum many-body system

Thomas Schweigler, Marek Gluza, Mohammadamin Tajik +8

Gaussian models provide an excellent effective description of many quantum many-body systems ranging from condensed matter systems all the way to neutron stars. Gaussian states are…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 73 cited

Designing Arbitrary One-dimensional Potentials on an Atom Chip

Mohammadamin Tajik, Bernhard Rauer, Thomas Schweigler +6

We use laser light shaped by a digital micro-mirror device to realize arbitrary optical dipole potentials for one-dimensional (1D) degenerate Bose gases of 87Rb trapped on an atom…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 64 cited

Nonlinear Polariton Fluids in a Flatband Reveal Discrete Gap Solitons

V. Goblot, B. Rauer, F. Vicentini +10

Phase frustration in periodic lattices is responsible for the formation of dispersionless flat bands. The absence of any kinetic energy scale makes flat band physics critically sen…

quant-ph2018★ 25 cited

Quantum read-out for cold atomic quantum simulators

M. Gluza, T. Schweigler, B. Rauer +3

Quantum simulators allow to explore static and dynamical properties of otherwise intractable quantum many-body systems. In many instances, however, it is the read-out that limits s…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 129 cited

Recurrences in an isolated quantum many-body system

Bernhard Rauer, Sebastian Erne, Thomas Schweigler +3

Even though the evolution of an isolated quantum system is unitary, the complexity of interacting many-body systems prevents the observation of recurrences of quantum states for al…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015★ 71 cited

Cooling of a one-dimensional Bose gas

Bernhard Rauer, Pjotrs Grišins, Igor E. Mazets +5

We experimentally study the dynamics of a degenerate one-dimensional Bose gas that is subject to a continuous outcoupling of atoms. Although standard evaporative cooling is rendere…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015★ 276 cited

On solving quantum many-body problems by experiment

Thomas Schweigler, Valentin Kasper, Sebastian Erne +7

Knowledge of all correlation functions of a system is equivalent to solving the corresponding many-body problem. Already a finite set of correlation functions can be sufficient to…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015

Does an isolated quantum system relax?

B. Rauer, T. Schweigler, T. Langen +1

Statistical mechanics is one of the most comprehensive theories in physics. From a boiling pot of water to the complex dynamics of quantum many-body systems it provides a successfu…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 653 cited

Experimental Observation of a Generalized Gibbs Ensemble

Tim Langen, Sebastian Erne, Remi Geiger +7

The connection between the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum many-body systems and statistical mechanics is a fundamental open question. It is generally believed that th…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 39 cited

Degenerate Bose gases with uniform loss

Pjotrs Grišins, Bernhard Rauer, Tim Langen +2

We theoretically investigate a weakly-interacting degenerate Bose gas coupled to an empty Markovian bath. We show that in the universal phononic limit the system evolves towards an…

quant-ph2014★ 35 cited

Towards experimental quantum field tomography with ultracold atoms

A. Steffens, M. Friesdorf, T. Langen +6

The experimental realisation of large scale many-body systems has seen immense progress in recent years, rendering full tomography tools for state identification inefficient, espec…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 21 cited

Chiral Prethermalization in supersonically split condensates

Kartiek Agarwal, Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, Bernhard Rauer +3

We study the dynamics of phase relaxation between a pair of one-dimensional condensates created by a supersonic unzipping of a single condensate. We use the Lorentz invariance of t…

cond-mat.quant-gas2013★ 442 cited

Local emergence of thermal correlations in an isolated quantum many-body system

Tim Langen, Remi Geiger, Maximilian Kuhnert +2

We experimentally demonstrate how thermal properties in an non-equilibrium quantum many- body system emerge locally, spread in space and time, and finally lead to the globally rela…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 53 cited

Prethermalization in one-dimensional Bose gases: description by a stochastic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process

Tim Langen, Michael Gring, Maximilian Kuhnert +5

We experimentally study the relaxation dynamics of a coherently split one-dimensional Bose gas using matterwave interference. Measuring the full probability distributions of interf…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 73 cited

Prethermalization Revealed by the Relaxation Dynamics of Full Distribution Functions

David Adu Smith, Michael Gring, Tim Langen +7

We detail the experimental observation of the non-equilibrium many-body phenomenon prethermalization. We study the dynamics of a rapidly and coherently split one-dimensional Bose g…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 69 cited

Multimode dynamics and emergence of a characteristic length-scale in a one-dimensional quantum system

Maximilian Kuhnert, Remi Geiger, Tim Langen +6

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a coherently split one-dimensional (1d) Bose gas by measuring the full probability distribution functions of matter-wave interference. Obse…