Stephanie Reimann, professor of Mathematical Physics and a Principal Investigator at NanoLund, has together with former post doc Johannes Bjerlin at LTH, and colleagues in Heidelberg in Germany and Aarhus in Denmark, recently succeeded in conducting a study, built around a unique experiment in Germany, where this analogy to the Higgs mechanism can now be confirmed in a system with only a few atoms.
“We started working on the theoretical basis for how quantum phase transitions occur in systems with a few particles five years ago, but now our colleagues in Germany have succeeded in conducting an experiment that confirms that theory with unusually high precision”, says Johannes Bjerlin.
Link to a press-release about the precursor to a quantum phase transition on LU:s swedish website