Liu Lab

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Publications

 

 

1. Observation of Ergodicity Breaking and Quantum Many-Body Scars in Spinor Gases

J. O. Austin-Harris, I. Rana, S. E. Begg, C. Binegar, T. Bilitewski, and Y. Liu,

arXiv2410.09015 (2024)

 

2. Engineering Dynamical Phase Diagrams with Driven Lattices in Spinor Gases

J. O. Austin-Harris, Z. N. Hardesty-Shaw, Q. Guan, C. Binegar, D. Blume, R. Lewis-Swan, and Y. Liu,

Physics Review A 109, 043309 (2024)

 

3. Nonlinear Multi-State Tunneling Dynamics in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Z. N. Hardesty-Shaw, Q. Guan, J. O. Austin-Harris, D. Blume, R. Lewis-Swan, and Y. Liu,

Physics Review A 108, 053307 (2023)

 

4. Quench-Induced Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Spinor Gases in a Moving Lattice

Z. N. Hardesty-Shaw, Q. Guan, J. O. Austin, D. Blume, R. Lewis-Swan, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review A 107, 053311 (2023)

 

5. Detecting Topological Phase Transitions in a Double Kicked Quantum Rotor

N. Bolik, C. Groiseau, J. H. Clark, G.S. Summy, Y. Liu, and S. Wimberger,

Physical Review A 106, 043318 (2022)

 

6. Light-shift-induced Behaviors Observed in Momentum-space Quantum Walks

N. Bolik, C. Groiseau, J. H. Clark, A. Gresch, S. Dadras, G.S. Summy, Y. Liu, and S. Wimberger,

Physical Review A 106, 033307 (2022)

 

7. Quantum to Classical Walk Transitions Tuned by Spontaneous Emissions

J. H. Clark, C. Groiseau, Z. N. Shaw, S. Dadras, C. Binegar, S. Wimberger, G.S. Summy, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review Research 3, 043062 (2021)

 

8. Manipulating Atom Number Distributions and Detecting Spatial Distributions in Lattice-confined Spinor Gases

J. O. Austin, Z.N. Shaw, Z. Chen, K. W. Mahmud, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review A 104, L041304 (2021)

 

9. Quantum Critical Dynamics in a Spinor Hubbard Model Quantum Simulator

J. O. Austin, Z. Chen, Z. N. Shaw, K. W. Mahmud, and Y. Liu,

Communications Physics 4, 61 (2021)

 

10. Quantum Quench and Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Lattice-confined Spinor Condensates

Z. Chen, T. Tang, J. Austin, Z. Shaw, L. Zhao, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review Letters 123, 113002 (2019)

 

11. First-order Superfluid-to-Mott-insulator Phase Transitions in Spinor Condensates

J. Jiang, L. Zhao, S.-T. Wang, Z. Chen, T. Tang, L.-M. Duan, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review A 93, 063607 (2016)

 

12. Antiferromagnetic Spinor Condensates in a Two-dimensional Optical Lattice

L. Zhao, J. Jiang, T. Tang, M. Webb, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review Letters 114, 225302 (2015)

 

13. Mapping the Phase Diagram of Spinor Condensates via Adiabatic Quantum Phase Transitions

J. Jiang, L. Zhao, M. Webb, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review A 90, 023610 (2014)

 

14. Dynamics in Spinor Condensates Tuned by a Microwave Dressing Field

L. Zhao, J. Jiang, T. Tang, M. Webb, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review A 89, 023608 (2014)

 

15. Simple and Efficient All-optical Production of Spinor Condensates

J. Jiang, L. Zhao, M. Webb, N, Jiang, H. Yang, and Y. Liu,

Physical Review A 88, 033620 (2013)

 

16. Number Fluctuations and Energy Dissipation in Sodium Spinor Condensates

Y. Liu, E. Gomez, S. E. Maxwell, L.D. Turner, E. Tiesinga and P. D. Lett ,

Physical Review Letters 102, 225301 (2009)

 

17. Quantum Phase Transitions and Continuous Observation of Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Condensate

Y. Liu, S. Jung, S. E. Maxwell, L.D. Turner, E. Tiesinga and P. D, Lett ,

Physical Review Letters 102, 125301 (2009)

 

18. Critical Velocity for Superfluid flow across the BEC - BCS Crossover

D. Miller, J. K. Chin, C. Stan, Y. Liu, C. Sanner, W. Setiawan and W. Ketterle,

Physical Review Letters 99, 070402 (2007)

 

19. Evidence for Superfluidity of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice

J. K. Chin, D. Miller, Y. Liu, C. Stan, W. Setiawan, C. Sanner, K. Xu and W. Ketterle,

Nature 443, 961-964 (2006)

 

20. Observation of Strong Quantum Depletion in a Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate

K. Xu , Y. Liu, D. Miller, J. K. Chin, W. Setiawan and W. Ketterle ,

Physical Review Letters 96, 180405 (2006)

 

21. Sodium Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice

K. Xu , Y. Liu, J. Abo-Shaeer , T. Mukaiyama , J. K. Chin, D. Miller, W. Ketterle , K. M. Jones, and E. Tiesinga ,

Physical Review A 72, 043604 (2005)