Abstract
This Letter comprises an experimental and theoretical investigation of the time evolution of a Fermi gas following fast and slow quenches of a one-dimensional optical double-well superlattice potential. We investigate both the local tunneling in the connected double wells and the global dynamics towards a steady state, i.e., a time-independent state. The local observables in the steady state resemble those of a thermal equilibrium state, whereas the global properties indicate a strong nonequilibrium situation.
- Received 16 July 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.170403
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