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Quantum Optics Group (LMU) - Quantum Many Body Systems Division (MPQ)

Seminars

Tuesday, 12 July, 2011

Group Seminar LMU: Spectroscopy for cold atoms by periodic modulation of optical lattices

Tuesday, 12.07.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Akiyuki Tokuno, DPMC-MaNEP, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Cold atoms in optical lattices are vigorously studied experimentally and...

Tuesday, 05 July, 2011

Group Seminar MPQ: SU(N) magnetism with cold atoms and chiral spin liquid

Tuesday, 05.07.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in Herbert-Walther-lecture room, MPQ Garching

Prof. Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado

Certain cold atoms, namely the alkaline earth-like atoms whose electronic degrees of freedom are...

Thursday, 30 June, 2011

Seminar LMU: The Hall effect and other consequences of artificial gauge fields among ultracold atoms.

Thursday, 30.06.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Dr. Lindsay LeBlanc, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST, and University of Maryland

Using Raman transitions to couple three ground states of rubidium-87...

Tuesday, 28 June, 2011

Group Seminar MPQ: Quantum dynamics in a bosonic quantum gas

Tuesday, 28.06.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in Herbert-Walther-lecture room, MPQ Garching

Dr. Corinna Kollath, University of Geneva

Atomic gases cooled to Nanokelvin temperatures are a new exciting tool to study a broad range of...

Wednesday, 22 June, 2011

Seminar LMU: Quench dynamics in pairs of coupled low-dimensional Bose condensates

Wednesday, 22.06.2011 15 p.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Boston University

In this talk I will review some theoretical work on quench...

Tuesday, 31 May, 2011

Group Seminar MPQ: Bose Condensation in Flat Bands: From Frustrated Magnets to Cold Atoms

Tuesday, 31.05.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in Herbert-Walther-lecture room, MPQ Garching

Dr. Sebastian Huber, The Weizmann Institute of Science

At low enough temperatures, weakly interacting bosons condense and a macroscopic number...

Wednesday, 25 May, 2011

Group Seminar MPQ: Quantum Walk of Two Bosons - from single photons to interacting atoms

Wednesday, 25.05.2011 12:30 (s.t.) in B 0.21, MPQ Garching

Yoav Lahini, The Weizmann Institute of Science

The talk will describe a study of the bosonic two-particle quantum walk. The combined effect of the lattice...

Tuesday, 17 May, 2011

Group Seminar LMU: Monte Carlo simulations for cold atom physics

Tuesday, 17.05.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Dr. Lode Pollet, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich  

Monte Carlo simulations are among the most powerful numerical techniques in...

Tuesday, 10 May, 2011

Group Seminar LMU: Probing Nearest-Neighbor Correlations of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice

Tuesday, 10.05.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Daniel Greif, Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zurich

The Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian is one of the key models for strongly correlated electrons in...

Tuesday, 03 May, 2011

Group Seminar LMU: Double occupancy as a universal probe for antiferromagnetic correlations and entropy in cold fermions on optical lattices

Tuesday, 03.05.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Dr. Nils Blümer, Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz

Ultracold fermionic atoms on optical lattices have been proposed as quantum simulators...