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SUBMITTER: Braun S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4378442 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Braun Simon S Friesdorf Mathis M Hodgman Sean S SS Schreiber Michael M Ronzheimer Jens Philipp JP Riera Arnau A Del Rey Marco M Bloch Immanuel I Eisert Jens J Schneider Ulrich U
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150309 12
The dynamics of quantum phase transitions pose one of the most challenging problems in modern many-body physics. Here, we study a prototypical example in a clean and well-controlled ultracold atom setup by observing the emergence of coherence when crossing the Mott insulator to superfluid quantum phase transition. In the 1D Bose-Hubbard model, we find perfect agreement between experimental observations and numerical simulations for the resulting coherence length. We, thereby, perform a largely c ...[more]