Cooling Atomic Gases With Disorder

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Cold atomic gases have proven capable of emulating a number of fundamental condensed matter phenomena including Bose-Einstein condensation, the Mott transition, Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing, and the quantum Hall effect. Cooling to a low enough temperature to explore magnetism and exotic superconductivity in lattices of fermionic atoms remains a challenge. We propose a method to produce a low temperature gas by preparing it in a disordered potential and following a constant entropy trajectory to deliver the gas into a nondisordered state which exhibits these incompletely understood phases. We show, using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, that we can approach the Néel temperature of the three-dimensional Hubbard model for experimentally achievable parameters. Recent experimental estimates suggest the randomness required lies in a regime where atom transport and equilibration are still robust.

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Paiva, Thereza, Khatami, Ehsan, Yang, Shuxiang, et al.. "Cooling Atomic Gases With Disorder." Physical Review Letters, 115, no. 24 (2015) American Physical Society: 240402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.240402.

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