Thermometry of ultracold atoms via nonequilibrium work distributions

Estimating the temperature of a cold quantum system is difficult. Usually, one measures a wellunderstood thermal state and uses that prior knowledge to infer its temperature. In contrast, we introduce a method of thermometry that assumes minimal knowledge of the state of a system and is potentially...

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Main Authors: Johnson, T, Cosco, F, Mitchison, M, Jaksch, D, Clark, S
Format: Journal article
Published: American Physical Society 2016