The 892nd IMS colloquium

Seminar & Events Detail

Lecture Title	"Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers"
Date	Tuesday 11 October 2016 16:00
Lecturer	Dr. Ana Maria Rey (Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado/NIST)
Place	IMS Research Building Room 201
Summary	Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the heart of modern quantum science and necessary for technological advances. However, the complexity of their interactions generally prevents us from coming up with an exact mathematical description of their behavior. Precisely engineered ultracold gases are emerging as a powerful tool for unraveling these challenging physical problems. In this talk, I will present recent developments at JILA on using alkaline-earth atoms (AEAs) --currently the basis of the most precise atomic clock in the world-- for the investigation of complex many-body phenomena and magnetism. I will discuss ideas to use AEAs dressed by laser fields to engineer analogs of spin-orbit coupled Hamiltonians, Weyl quasiparticles, as well as new forms of matter with no yet known counterpart in nature. Poster PDF:the892_colloquium.pdf
Other	Contact: Kenji Ohmori (Photo-Molecular Science) Ryota Iino & Takeshi Yanai (IMS colloquium FY2016 committee)

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