Stephen's discovery that black holes are hot and emit thermal "Hawking radiation" unifies quantum matter and gravitational black-hole physics with thermodynamics, the science of heat.
Optical trapping enables the building of quantum matter one atom at a time.
Topological materials are a new and rapidly expanding class of quantum matter.
"Physicists tend to be overly focused on their work," says Suchitra Sebastian, a researcher who collaborates with Alireza in the Quantum Matter group at the University of Cambridge.
To produce this quantum matter, the temperature of the atoms and ions are lowered such that the Gibbs factor is appreciable for only the quantum ground state.
Preparing topological states of quantum matter, such as edge states, is one of the most important directions in condensed matter physics.
Traditionally well-known thermoelectric materials, such as Bi2Te3 and Bi2Se3, have been recently classified as a new quantum matter called topological insulators [45 47].
The Weak Equivalence Principle is confirmed for neutral bulk matter with an accuracy of 5 · 10−12 and for neutral quantum matter on a level of 10−9, rare tests for charged matter have been carried out.
Methods for storage and trapping of charged and neutral particles have very often served as the experimental key to great scientific advances, covering physics in the vast energy range from elementary particles to ultracold atomic quantum matter.
Proposed and projected space missions like STE-QUEST [1], CAL [2, 3], QWEP [4], Q-TEST [5] aim at the observation of Bose-Einstein condensates at unprecedented expansion times, quantum gas physics in the pico Kelvin regime, and dual-species atom interferometry for future precision tests of the equivalence principle with quantum matter [1 3, 6].
