Recent advances in the tunability of ultracold atomic gases have created opportunities for\ studying interesting quantum many-body systems. Fano-Feshbach resonances, in particular, allow\ experimenters to freely adjust the scattering of atoms by controlling an external magnetic field.\ By rapidly changing this field near a resonance, it is possible to drive systems out of equilibrium\ towards novel quantum states where correlations between atoms change dynamically. In this thesis,\ we take a wave-function-based approach to theoretically examine the response of several interesting\ systems to suddenly-switched, or \textquotedblleftquenched,\textquotedblright interactions.
CY - Boulder, CO DA - 07-2016 N2 -Recent advances in the tunability of ultracold atomic gases have created opportunities for\ studying interesting quantum many-body systems. Fano-Feshbach resonances, in particular, allow\ experimenters to freely adjust the scattering of atoms by controlling an external magnetic field.\ By rapidly changing this field near a resonance, it is possible to drive systems out of equilibrium\ towards novel quantum states where correlations between atoms change dynamically. In this thesis,\ we take a wave-function-based approach to theoretically examine the response of several interesting\ systems to suddenly-switched, or \textquotedblleftquenched,\textquotedblright interactions.
PB - University of Colorado Boulder PP - Boulder, CO PY - 2016 EP - 132 TI - Dynamics of Quenched Ultracold Quantum Gases VL - Ph.D. ER -