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SCIENCE
卷 337, 期 6100, 页码 1318-1322出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1224953
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P22590-N16, M1040-N16]
- Doctoral Programme CoQuS [W1210]
- European Union through the integrating project AQUTE
- Siemens Austria
- City of Vienna
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Optical Lattice Emulator program
- Harvard-MIT CUA
- NSF [DMR-07-05472]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research Quantum Simulation Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
- Army Research Office-MURI on Atomtronics
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [W1210, P22590] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [Z 118, P 22590, I 145] Funding Source: researchfish
Understanding relaxation processes is an important unsolved problem in many areas of physics. A key challenge is the scarcity of experimental tools for the characterization of complex transient states. We used measurements of full quantum mechanical probability distributions of matter-wave interference to study the relaxation dynamics of a coherently split one-dimensional Bose gas and obtained comprehensive information about the dynamical states of the system. After an initial rapid evolution, the full distributions reveal the approach toward a thermal-like steady state characterized by an effective temperature that is independent from the initial equilibrium temperature of the system before the splitting process. We conjecture that this state can be described through a generalized Gibbs ensemble and associate it with prethermalization.
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