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 ...

A quantum gas, however, can behave very differently. Under periodic kicks, quantum interference can freeze energy absorption entirely, a phenomenon known as dynamical localization. Whether this ...

Many-body dynamical localization (IMAGE) University of Innsbruck Caption Despite being continually kicked and strongly interacting, the atoms no longer absorb energy. The system localizes in momentum ...

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