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
Colloquium
Tags
Institute Colloquium
Contact
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.