New Journal of Physics (Jan 2018)

Shortcuts to adiabaticity in Fermi gases

  • Pengpeng Diao,
  • Shujin Deng,
  • Fang Li,
  • Shi Yu,
  • Aurélia Chenu,
  • Adolfo del Campo,
  • Haibin Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aae45e
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 10
p. 105004

Abstract

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Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) provide an alternative to adiabatic protocols to guide the dynamics of the system of interest without the requirement of slow driving. We report the controlled speedup via STA of the nonadiabatic dynamics of a Fermi gas, both in the noninteracting and strongly coupled, unitary regimes. Friction-free superadiabatic expansion strokes, with no residual excitations in the final state, are demonstrated in the unitary regime by engineering the modulation of the frequencies and aspect ratio of the harmonic trap. STA are also analyzed and implemented in the high-temperature regime, where the shear viscosity plays a pivotal role and the Fermi gas is described by viscous hydrodynamics.

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