The Institute Colloquium: Probing and Controlling Ultracold Quantum Matter
Date:
Monday, February 25, 2013 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker:
Immanuel Bloch (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
Location:
Raiffeisen Lecture Hall, Central Building
Series:
Institute colloquium
Contact:
Trappl Marie
The realization of ultracold quantum gases at Nanokelvin temperatures has marked a milestone in modern quantum physics. With the help of laser light, these ultracold atom clouds can be stored in artificial periodic potentials created by laser light - so called optical lattices - that allow us to explore fundamental aspects of strongly interacting fermionic and bosonic quantum matter. In very recent experiments, we have been able to record single snapshots of a quantum fluid in which individual atoms are detected with single lattice site resolution. This opens unprecedented novel opportunities for analyzing and manipulating strongly interacting quantum system. In my talk, I will review some of the recent experiments on strongly correlated quantum gases in optical lattices and highlight connections to condensed matter physics, quantum information science and atomic- and molecular physics.