Probing non-ergodicity and sym... Note

Probing non-ergodicity and symmetry via direct measurement of coherent scattering in a shaken rotor

Ergodicity (or lack thereof) plays a major role in the relaxation of quantum systems to equilibrium, yet the search of experimentally accessible quantities acting as its signatures is still ongoing. Here, the authors observe the sought-after features of the coherent forward scattering peak from a Bose-Einstein condensate within an optical lattice.