Exploring Fermionic Quantum Matter at the Single-Atom Level
Abstract: The last decades have seen the emergence of ultracold atom experiments as powerful platforms for the exploration of complex many-body systems, owing to their ability to probe large ensembles of particles in a well-characterized, tunable, and isolated environment.
Among the various quantum many-body problems within reach of quantum gas experiments, interacting fermionic systems play a special role. While they constitute a cornerstone of quantum matter covering a broad fundamental and technological scope, their understanding still represents a major challenge for existing theoretical approaches, which are widely plagued by the infamous sign-problem.
In this talk, I will present our recent work on quantum gas microscopy of fermionic many-body systems in continuous space, how we characterize them at previously inaccessible levels of resolution, and gain new insight into their microscopic inner workings.