Grant: Alliance Grants

In recent years, the use of environment couplings and external drives has emerged as a promising avenue to generate, manipulate and stabilize novel states of neutral-atom quantum matter. With this international collaboration lead by research teams from both Canada and Germany, we plan to realize unbalanced bilayer Hubbard systems where one of the two-dimensional layers acts as a reservoir of particles, spins, temperature and entropy for the other layer. We will investigate both experimentally and theoretically how the equilibrium and dynamical properties of the strongly interacting layer can be tuned by the action of the nearby reservoir. We are particularly interested in understanding how the environmental layer can be employed as an entropy reservoir and as a seeding ground for novel quantum phases. The proposed research will lead to the development of fundamentally new approaches to improve the versatility and robustness of information processing devices by exploiting open-system processes.