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

Seminars

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...

Thursday, 24 March, 2011

Seminar LMU: Dynamics of One Dimensional Fermi Gases.

Thursday, 24.03.2011 2 p.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Jussi Kajala, Aalto University, Finnland

We have used the time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) numerical method to model the expansion and collision dynamics...

Tuesday, 22 March, 2011

Group seminar MPQ: Strong carrier-envelope phase effects in electron emission from a metal tip

Tuesday, 22.03.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in Herbert-Walther-lecture room, MPQ Garching

Dr. Peter Hommelhoff,  Ultrafast Quantum Optics Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics

Sharp metal tips may be ideal to...

Friday, 11 March, 2011

Group Seminar: Emulating Quantum Magnetism and t--J Models in Systems of Ultracold Polar Molecules

Friday, 11.03.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Dr. Salvatore Manmana, Rey Theory Group, JILA

In contrast to atomic systems, strong electric dipole-dipole interactions in systems of ultracold polar molecules...

Tuesday, 01 March, 2011

Group Seminar: Exploring a Strongly Interacting Fermi-Fermi Mixture

Tuesday, 01.03.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU

Dr. Florian Schreck, IQOQI

We are studying lithium/potassium Fermi mixtures with the goal to create a new class of strongly interacting many-body quantum...

Tuesday, 01 February, 2011

Group Seminar MPQ: Learning a lot from a little: Measuring entanglement in and efficient quantum state tomography of many-body systems

Tuesday, 01.02.2011 10 a.m. (s.t.) in Herbert-Walther-lecture room, MPQ Garching

Dr. Marcus Cramer, Plenio's Group, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Uni-Ulm

In this talk I will report on some recent results concerning (i)...