Nonequilibrium phase transition with gravitational-like interaction in a cloud of cold atoms

• Main Authors: Barré, J., Marcos, B., Wilkowski, David
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics::Atomic physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104045; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19523
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We propose to use a cloud of laser-cooled atoms in a quasi-two-dimensional trap to investigate a nonequilibrium collapse phase transition in the presence of a gravitational-like interaction. Using theoretical arguments and numerical simulations, we show that, like in two-dimensional gravity, a trans...