For nearly three decades, ultracold atomic gases have been used with great success to
study fundamental many-body phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation and
superfluidity. While traditionally they were produced in harmonic electromagnetic
traps and thus had inhomogeneous densities, it is now also possible to create
homogeneous samples in the uniform potential of an optical box trap. Box
trapping simplifies the interpretation of experimental results, provides more direct
connections with theory and, in some cases, allows qualitatively new, hitherto impossible experiments.
I will give an overview of our recent experiments with box-trapped three- and two-dimensional Bose gases, focusing on a series of related experiments on non-equilibrium phenomena, including phase-transition dynamics,
turbulence, and equilibration of closed quantum systems.

Zoom link: https://weizmann.zoom.us/j/94885314520?pwd=Q2pra0dyS284VENiUVVhWGVTTjJFQT09