Quantum engineering in cold atomic gasses (Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0051)

Project name: Quantum engineering in cold atomic gasses (Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0051)

Project No. (Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0051)

This project has received funding from the European Social Fund under the No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 “Development of Competences of Scientists, other Researchers and Students through Practical Research Activities” measure under grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT).

Duration: 4 years (2018-01-08 - 2022-01-07)

Project leader: Prof. E. Anisimovas

Cold atomic gases offer broad opportunities for quantum engineering. These systems are perfectly isolated from the environment, remarkably clean and offer an unprecedented degree of control through light-matter interaction. Successful experiments and demonstrations rapidly proceed towards ever increasing levels of quantum complexity. However, in spite of rapid advances, recent experiments have also met with rather hard limitations such as heating – the unwanted generation of entropy due to the external perturbation by the driving signal. The proposal aimed to elucidate the role of interactions, internal degrees of freedom and structured gauge fields in out-of-equilibrium dynamics of cold-atom systems and to propose a new generation of periodic driving schemes.