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Anomalous momentum diffusion in a dissipative many-body system (1905.04808v1)

Published 12 May 2019 in cond-mat.quant-gas

Abstract: Decoherence is ubiquitous in quantum physics, from the conceptual foundations to quantum information processing or quantum technologies, where it is a threat that must be countered. While decoherence has been extensively studied for simple, well-isolated systems such as single atoms or ions, much less is known for many-body systems where inter-particle correlations and interactions can drastically alter the dissipative dynamics. Here we report an experimental study of how spontaneous emission destroys the spatial coherence of a gas of strongly interacting bosons in an optical lattice. Instead of the standard momentum diffusion expected for independent atoms, we observe an anomalous sub-diffusive expansion, associated with a universal slowing down $\propto 1/t{1/2}$ of the decoherence dynamics. This algebraic decay reflects the emergence of slowly-relaxing many-body states, akin to sub-radiant states of many excited emitters. These results, supported by theoretical predictions, provide an important benchmark in the understanding of open many-body systems.

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