Monday, October 11, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: William D. Phillips (NIST)
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Super-Session: Overview and Frontiers of Cold-Atom Physics
Talks are 45 min + 15 min discussion
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8:50am |
David Gross
(KITP Director)
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Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:00am |
William Phillips
(NIST)
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Opening Remarks [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:20am |
Peter Zoller
(Innsbruck)
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From Optical Lattices to Self-assembled Lattice Structures with Cold Atoms and Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:20am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:50am |
Debbie Jin
(JILA)
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Universal Relations for Ultracold Atom Gases [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:50am |
Sankar Das Sarma
(UMD)
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Interesting Quantum Phases at the Frontiers of Cold Atom Physics: Perspectives of a Condensed Matter Theorist [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:50pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Walter Hofstetter (Univ. Frankfurt)
[Talks are 30 min + 10 min discussion]
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Session Topic: New Developments in Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gases
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2:20pm |
Randy Hulet
(Rice Univ.)
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Spin-Imbalance in a One-Dimensional Fermi Gas [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:00pm |
Martin Zwierlein
(MIT)
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Universal Spin Transport in Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases |
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3:40pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:10pm |
Christophe Salomon
(ENS, Paris)
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Thermodynamics of a Tunable Fermi Gas [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:50pm |
Sandro Stringari
(Trento)
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Spin Fluctuations and Magnetic Polarizability of a Nearly Ferromagnetic Fermi Gas [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Wilhelm Zwerger (TUM)
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Session Topic: Novel Phases in Optical Lattices
Talks are 30 min + 10 min discussion
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9:00am |
Ian Spielman
(NIST)
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Spin Orbit Coupling in a BEC[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:40am |
Maciej Lewenstein
(Barcelona)
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Ultracold Atoms in Artificial Non-Abelian Gauge Fields [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:20am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:50am |
Stefan Kuhr
(MPQ Garching)
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Single-atom-resolved Fluorescence Imaging of an Atomic Mott Insulator [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Kai Sun
(Univ. Maryland)
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Topological State of Matter from Orbital Degrees of Freedom [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:10pm |
Eugene Demler
(Harvard Univ.)
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Exploring Magnetism and Superconductivity with Feshbach Resonance [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:50pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Michael Fleischhauer (Univ. Kaiserslautern)
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2:20pm |
Tilman Esslinger
(ETH Zurich)
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The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and Supersolidity [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:00pm |
Nandini Trivedi
(OSU)
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Simulations and Emulations of Fermions in Optical Lattices [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:40pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Poster Session Chair: Ofir Alon (Univ. Heidelberg)
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4:10pm |
Poster Presenters |
24 Mini-Talks [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:30pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
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6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Peter Reynolds (ARO)
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Session Topic: Disordered Bosons and Fermions
Talks are 30 min + 10 min discussion
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9:00am |
Alain Aspect
(Inst. d'Optique, Palaiseau)
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Ultracold Atoms in Optical Disorder [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:40am |
Gora Shlyapnikov
(Paris/Orsay)
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Finite Temperature Phase Transition for One-dimensional Disordered Bosons [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:20am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:50am |
Massimo Inguscio
(Firenze)
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Weakly Interacting Bosons in a Disordered Lattice [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Nikolay V. Prokofiev
(UMass Amherst)
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Solution of the Dirty-boson Problem [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:10pm |
Brian Demarco
(UIUC)
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Disordered Insulator in an Optical Lattice [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:50pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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2:00pm |
FREE AFTERNOON |
Shuttle Available to BWSCI *time is flexible |
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Marvin D. Girardeau (Univ. Arizona)
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Session Topic: Low-Dimensional Systems and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics, Part 1
Talks are 30 min + 10 min discussion
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9:00am |
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
(Innsbruck)
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Strongly-interacting Quantum Gases in One-dimensional Geometry [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:40am |
Erhai Zhao
(GMU)
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Ultracold Fermi Gases in One and Quasi-one Dimension [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:20am |
MORNING BREAK |
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Midmorning Session Chair: Leon Balents (KITP)
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Session Topic: Quantum Information and Topological Phases in Condensed-Matter Systems
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10:50am |
Michael Freedman
(Microsoft -- Station Q)
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Lattice Models Where the Lattice Fluctuates [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Alexei Kitaev
(Caltech)
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Topological Spin Models in Two Dimensions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:10pm |
Joel Moore
(UC Berkeley)
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Realizing Topological Phases of Lattice Systems with Ultracold Atoms [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:50pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Victor Gurarie (Univ. Colorado)
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Session Topic: Low-Dimensional Systems and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics, Part 2
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2:20pm |
Zoran Hadzibabic
(Cambridge Univ.)
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2D Bose Gases: Current Understanding & Open Questions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:00pm |
Klaus Sengstock
(Hamburg)
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Ultracold Quantum Gases in Triangular and Hexagonal Optical Lattices [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:40pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:10pm |
Cheng Chin
(Univ. Chicago)
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Observation of Scale Invariance and Universality in Two-dimensional Bose Gases [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:50pm |
Alexej Streltsov
(Heidelberg)
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Non Equilibrium Phenomena in Attractive BEC's: Solitons, Fragmentons and CATons [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
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5:30pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
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6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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6:00pm |
David Gross |
After-dinner Remarks |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Friday, October 15, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Luis Santos (Leibniz Univ.)
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Hot Topic Focus: Dipolar Quantum Gases and Cold Polar Molecules
Talks are 30 min + 10 min discussion
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9:00am |
Jun Ye
(JILA)
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Polar Molecules in the Quantum Regime [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:40am |
Guido Pupillo
(Innsbruck)
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Solids and Supersolids in Dipolar Quantum Gases [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:20am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:50am |
Tilman Pfau
(Stuttgart)
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Coherent Control of Dense Rydberg Gases [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:30am |
Misha Lukin
(Harvard Univ.)
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Quantum Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Atoms and Photons in Dipolar Systems [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Midmorning - Afternoon Session Chair: Alexander Fetter (Stanford)
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Session Topic: Other Hot Topics of Cold-Atom Physics
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12:10pm |
Markus Greiner
(Harvard Univ.)
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Observing a Quantum Phase Transition on a Single Atom Level[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:50pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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2:20pm |
Hans Peter Büchler
(Stuttgart)
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Quantum Critical Behavior in Driven and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:00pm |
Christoph Kohstall
(Innsbruck)
giving talk for Rudy Grimm
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New Results on Efimov Physics and Creation of a Strongly Interacting Fermi-Fermi Mixture [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:40pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:20pm |
Markus K. Oberthaler
(Heidelberg)
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Nonlinear Quantum Atom Optics with Bose-Einstein Condensates -- Squeezing and Application[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00pm |
Organizers |
Concluding Remarks [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:10pm |
CONFERENCE END |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Jocelyn to sign up.)
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ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS
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Nils Bluemer
(Johannes Gutenberg Univ.)
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Néel Transition of Lattice Fermions in a Harmonic Trap: A Real-Space Dynamic Mean-Field Study |
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Nathaniel Brahms
(UC Berkeley)
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Nondestructive Cavity-assisted Magnetic-resonance Imaging of Atoms in an Optical Lattice[Poster] |
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Marc Cheneau
(MPQ)
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Single-site and Single-atom Resolved Imaging of Correlated Quantum States in Optical Lattices |
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Daniel Comparat
(CNRS)
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Triplet or Singlet Molecular Vibrational Cooling by Optical Pumping with Shaped Pulse[Poster] |
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Gareth Conduit
(Ben Gurion University)
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Perspectives on itinerant ferromagnetism in an atomic Fermi gas |
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Xiaoling Cui
(Tsinghua Univ.)
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Renormalization Approach for Few-body Physics in Ultracold Atoms |
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Claudia De Grandi
(KITP Graduate Fellow)
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Probing Quantum Systems Through Adiabatic Dynamics |
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Sarang Gopalakrishnan
(KITP Graduate Fellow)
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Solidity and Frustration in Multimode Optical Cavities |
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Philipp Hauke
(ICFO)
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Complete Devil's Staircase and Crystal--Superfluid Transitions in a Dipolar XXZ Spin Chain: A Trapped Ion Quantum Simulation |
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Adilet Imambekov
(Rice Univ.)
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Density Ripples in Expanding Low-dimensional Gases as a Probe of Correlations |
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Kaijun Jiang
(Chinese Academy of Sci.)
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Thermodynamics in a Unitary Fermi Gas[Poster] |
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Tassilo Keilmann
(LMU)
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Statistically Induced Phase Transitions and Anyons in 1D Optical Lattices[Poster] |
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Yannick Meurice
(Univ. Iowa)
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Dynamical Gauge Fields on Optical Lattices: A Lattice Gauge Theorist Point of View[Poster] |
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Aditi Mitra
(NYU)
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Quenched Dynamics in Interacting One-dimensional Systems
with Domain Wall Initial States |
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Robert Moszynski
(Univ. Warsaw)
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Sympathetic Cooling of the Ba+ Ion by Collisions with Ultracold Rb Atoms: Theoretical Prospects |
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Dominik Muth
(Univ. Kaiserslautern)
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Dynamics of Repulsively and Attractively Interacting Bosons
in 1D After an Interaction Quench |
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Yusuke Nishida
(MIT)
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Universal Fermi Gases in Mixed Dimensions[Poster] |
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Duncan O'Dell
(McMaster Univ.)
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Rainbows in the Atomic Josephson Junction |
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Pierbiagio Pieri
(Univ. Camerino)
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Competition Between Pairing and Condensation in a Resonant Bose-Fermi Mixture |
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Matteo Rizzi
(MPI)
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Emerging Bosons with Three-Body Interactions from Spin-1 Atoms in Optical Lattices |
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Laurent Sanchez-Palencia
(Univ. of Paris)
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Localized and Extended States in a Disordered Trap |
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Robert Smith
(Univ. Cambridge)
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Degenerate Bose Gases with Tunable Interactions |
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Leticia Tarruell
(ETH Zurich)
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Quantitative Study of the Metal-Mott Insulator Transition with Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice |
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Edward Taylor
(OSU)
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Viscosity of Strongly Interacting Quantum Fluids: Spectral Functions and Sum Rules |
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Päivi Törmä
(Helsinki Tech.)
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Signatures of the FFLO Phase in Modulation Spectroscopy and Imbalanced Gases in Highly Elongated Traps[Poster] |
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Päivi Törmä
(Helsinki Tech.)
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Spin-asymmetric Josephson Effect and Speed of Sound in the FFLO State |
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Päivi Törmä
(Helsinki Tech.)
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Dynamics of One-dimensional Fermi Gases in an Optical Lattice |
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Bin Wang
(Univ. Maryland)
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Bose-Fermi Solid and Its Quantum Melting in a One-dimensional Optical Lattice[Poster] |
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