{"id":220171,"date":"2025-08-15T04:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/a-quantum-gas-that-refuses-to-heat-physicists-observe-many-body-dynamical-localization"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:22:14","slug":"a-quantum-gas-that-refuses-to-heat-physicists-observe-many-body-dynamical-localization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/a-quantum-gas-that-refuses-to-heat-physicists-observe-many-body-dynamical-localization","title":{"rendered":"A quantum gas that refuses to heat\u2014physicists observe many-body dynamical localization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-quantum-gas-that-refuses-to-heat-physicists-observe-many-body-dynamical-localization3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In everyday life, continuously doing work on a system is found to heat it up. Rubbing your hands together warms them. Hammering a piece of metal makes it hot. Even without knowing the equations, we learn from experience: driving any system, whether by stirring, pressing, or striking, leads to a rise in the system\u2019s temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The same expectation holds for microscopic quantum systems: when we continuously excite a many-particle system, especially one with strong particle-particle interactions, we expect it to absorb energy and to heat up. But is this always the case, in particular at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum level<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>No, says an experiment carried out by a team from Hanns-Christoph N\u00e4gerl\u2019s group at the Department of Experimental Physics of the University of Innsbruck. The research has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adn8625\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In everyday life, continuously doing work on a system is found to heat it up. Rubbing your hands together warms them. Hammering a piece of metal makes it hot. Even without knowing the equations, we learn from experience: driving any system, whether by stirring, pressing, or striking, leads to a rise in the system\u2019s temperature. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}