KITP Conference: Correlated States in Degenerate Atomic Gases

Sep 05, 2008

KITP Conference: Correlated States in Degenerate Atomic Gases (Apr 23-27, 2007)
Coordinators: Immanuel Bloch, Victor Gurarie, Deborah Jin, Yong-Baek Kim, Leo Radzihovsky, Peter Zoller

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Monday, April 23, 2007
8:50am	David Gross (KITP Director)	Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
Morning Session: Overview (chair: Leo Radzihovsky, Univ. Colorado) [Each Talk is 50 min + 10 min Discussion]
9:00am	Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)	Ultracold Atoms - Dilute Gases with Strong Interactions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Subir Sachdev (Harvard)	Overview of Strong Correlation Physics for AMO System [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
Bosonic Superfluids
11:00am	MORNING BREAK
11:30am	Fei Zhou (Univ. British Columbia)	Quantum Magnetism in Optical Lattices: Coherent Spin Nematics of Ultra Cold Atoms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:10pm	Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley)	Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates: A Dipolar Magnetic Superfluid[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:50pm	LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon Session: Fermionic Superfluids (chair: Kathryn Levin, Univ. Chicago) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
2:20pm	Rudolf Grimm (Univ. Innsbruck)	Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases: Recent Results from Innsbruck [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Randall Hulet (Rice Univ.)	Superfluid Phases of a Fermi Gas with Unequal Spin Populations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:40pm	AFTERNOON BREAK
4:10pm	Daniel Sheehy (Iowa State Univ.)	BEC-BCS Crossover, Phase Transitions and Phase Separation in Polarized Resonantly-Paired Superfluids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:50pm	Emil Yuzbashyan (Rutgers)	Signatures of Non-Equilibrium Cooper Pairing in Ultra-Cold Fermi Gases [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Morning Session: Fermionic Superfluids Continued (chair: Mike Gunn, Univ. Birmingham) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
8:30am	Christophe Salomon (École Normale Sup.)	Experiments in the BEC-BCS Crossover [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2 Dimensions, Rotation, p-wave, and Topological States
9:10am	Zoran Hadzibabic (École Normale Sup.)	Bose Gas in Flatland [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:50am	Nicholas Read (Yale Univ.)	Topological Properties of p+ip Paired Superfluid States [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	MORNING BREAK
11:00am	Chetan Nayak (UCSB)	Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computation [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:40am	Deborah Jin (JILA)	p-wave Feshbach Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:20pm	Alexei Kitaev (Caltech)	Anyons in Spin Models and FQHE Systems [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1:00pm	LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon Session: Lattices (chair: Bogdan Damski, LANL) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
2:20pm	Immanuel Bloch (Univ. Mainz)	Strongly Correlated Quantum Phases with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Massimo Inguscio (Univ. Firenze)	Crystals of Light, Disorder and Atomic Mixtures [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:40pm	AFTERNOON BREAK
4:10pm	Eugene Demler (Harvard)	Strongly Correlated Many-Body Systems: from electronic materials to cold atoms to photons [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:50pm	Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho (Ohio State Univ.)	A New Challenge in Cold Atom Physics: How Cold Can One Get in Optical Lattices? [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI	*Time may vary depending on end of dinner.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Morning Session: 1d Systems (chair: Dimitri Gangardt, Univ. Birmingham) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
9:00am	Miguel Cazalilla (DIPC)	Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids in Cold Atomic Gases. A Fresh Look at Some Old and New Problems: Hubbard models and Non-equilibrium. [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:40am	David Weiss (PSU)	Controlling Chaos in 1D Gases [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am	MORNING BREAK
Perspectives with Molecules in Optical Lattices
10:50am	Paul Julienne (NIST)	Some Perspectives on Ultracold Atomic and Molecular Interactions and their Control.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Hans Peter Büchler (Univ. Innsbruck)	Three-Body Interaction in Cold Gases of Polar Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:10pm	Jun Ye (JILA)	Stable Cold Polar Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:50pm	LUNCH BREAK
2:30pm	FREE AFTERNOON	Shuttle Available to BWSCI
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Morning Session: Strongly Correlated Liquid (chair: Sandy Fetter, Stanford) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
9:00am	Ashvin Vishwanath (UC Berkeley)	Deconfined Criticality in Frustrated Magnets and Lattice Boson Systems [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:40am	Anders Sandvik (Boston Univ.)	Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Deconfined Quantum-Criticality [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am	MORNING BREAK
10:50am	Senthil Todadri (MIT)	Fluctuating Quantum Spin Nematics [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Sergei Isakov (Univ. Toronto)	Unusual Liquid States in Hard-Core Boson Models on the Kagome and Pyrochlore Lattices [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:10pm	GROUP DISCUSSION
12:50pm	LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon Session: Lattices II and Quantum Simulators (chair: Marcel Franz, UBC) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
2:20pm	Nandini Trivedi (Ohio State Univ.)	Fermions in Optical Lattices: Pseudogaps and RVB States [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Matthias Troyer (ETH-Zurich)	Adiabatic Quantum Simulation Using Ultracold Fermionic Atoms: d-wave RVB States and the Phase Diagram of the Fermionic Hubbard Model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:40pm	AFTERNOON BREAK
4:10pm	Henning Moritz (ETH Zurich)	Interacting Fermions in Optical Lattices[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:50pm	Trey Porto (NIST)	Sub-lattice Control in a State-dependent Double-well Lattice [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI	*Time may vary depending on end of dinner.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Morning Session: Probing Correlated States (chair: Eric Braaten, Ohio State) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
9:00am	Mikhail Lukin (Harvard)	New Systems for Creating and Probing Strongly Correlated Atoms and Photons [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:40am	Klaus Sengstock (Univ. Hamburg)	Mixtures of Ultracold Fermionic and Bosonic Quantum Gases [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am	MORNING BREAK
Few-Body States
10:50am	Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (Univ. Innsbruck)	Evidence for Efimov Quantum States in Experiments with Ultracold Cesium Gases[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Thorsten Köhler (Univ. Oxford)	Production of Three-Body Efimov Molecules in an Optical Lattice[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:10pm	Georgy Shlyapnikov (Univ. Paris Sud)	Crystallization and Formation of Trimers in Fermi Mixtures [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:50pm	LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon Session: Polar Molecules (chair: Victor Gurarie, Univ. Colorado) [Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]
2:20pm	Jeremy Hutson (Univ. Durham)	Interactions and Collisions Involving Ultracold Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Roman Krems (Univ. British Columbia)	Effects of Static and Laser Electric Fields on Cold Collisions of Polar Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:40pm	Organizers	Concluding Remarks [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:10pm	CONFERENCE END
4:15pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI	Shuttle also available to the SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. See Jocelyn.
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATION
	Chih-Chun Chien (Univ. Chicago)	Superfluidity of Attractive Hubbard Model in Optical Lattice[Slides]
	Chih-Chun Chien (Univ. Chicago)	Comparing Theory and Experiment in Population Imbalanced Fermi Gases [Slides]
	Fernando Cucchietti (LANL)	Turning Back Time in an Optical Lattice [Slides]
	Bogdan Damski (LANL)	Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition
	Sebastian Diehl (IQOQI)	Functional Renormalization Group for the BCS-BEC Crossover in Cold Fermion Gases [Slides]
	Adilet Imambekov (Harvard)	Full Distribution Functions of Interference Contrast in Low Dimensional Bose Gases [Slides]
	Svetlana Kotochigova (NIST)	Making Cold Molecules and Correlated States with Microwave Fields
	Andrei Kryjevski (Indiana Univ.)	Properties of Unitary Fermi Gas from the Epsilon Expansion[Slides]
	Andrea Micheli (Univ. Innsbruck)	Designer-Interactions with Polar Molecules [Slides]
	Predag Nikolic (Harvard)	Superfluid-insulator Transitions of the Fermi Gas with Near-unitary Interactions in a Periodic Potential
	Pinaki Sengupta (LANL)	Field Induced Supersolid Phase in Spin-One Heisenberg Models
	Yong-il Shin (MIT)	Pairing and Superfluidity in a Strongly-Interacting Imbalanced Fermi Gas
	Eite Tiesinga (NIST)	Cancellation of the Collisional Frequency Shift in Ceasium Fountain Clocks
	Hui Zhai (Ohio State Univ.)	Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases: Rotation and Optical Lattices[Slides]
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Monday, April 23, 2007

Morning Session: Overview (chair: Leo Radzihovsky, Univ. Colorado)[Each Talk is 50 min + 10 min Discussion]

Bosonic Superfluids

Afternoon Session: Fermionic Superfluids (chair: Kathryn Levin, Univ. Chicago)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Morning Session: Fermionic Superfluids Continued (chair: Mike Gunn, Univ. Birmingham)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

2 Dimensions, Rotation, p-wave, and Topological States

Afternoon Session: Lattices (chair: Bogdan Damski, LANL)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Morning Session: 1d Systems (chair: Dimitri Gangardt, Univ. Birmingham)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Perspectives with Molecules in Optical Lattices

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Morning Session: Strongly Correlated Liquid (chair: Sandy Fetter, Stanford)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Afternoon Session: Lattices II and Quantum Simulators (chair: Marcel Franz, UBC)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Friday, April 27, 2007

Morning Session: Probing Correlated States (chair: Eric Braaten, Ohio State)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Few-Body States

Afternoon Session: Polar Molecules (chair: Victor Gurarie, Univ. Colorado)[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATION

Morning Session: Overview (chair: Leo Radzihovsky, Univ. Colorado)
[Each Talk is 50 min + 10 min Discussion]

Afternoon Session: Fermionic Superfluids (chair: Kathryn Levin, Univ. Chicago)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session: Fermionic Superfluids Continued (chair: Mike Gunn, Univ. Birmingham)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Afternoon Session: Lattices (chair: Bogdan Damski, LANL)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session: 1d Systems (chair: Dimitri Gangardt, Univ. Birmingham)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session: Strongly Correlated Liquid (chair: Sandy Fetter, Stanford)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Afternoon Session: Lattices II and Quantum Simulators (chair: Marcel Franz, UBC)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session: Probing Correlated States (chair: Eric Braaten, Ohio State)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]

Afternoon Session: Polar Molecules (chair: Victor Gurarie, Univ. Colorado)
[Each Talk is 30 min + 10 min Discussion]