Group：Research Talk
Title：Quantum many-body phases with trapped ions and cold atoms
Speaker： Xiaolong Deng University
Time： 2011-12-19 15:30-2011-12-19 16:30
Venue：FIT 1-222
Abstract:
Trapped ions and cold atoms which are highly controllable offer us the most reliable and scalable quantum simulators. In this talk I will discuss firstly how to use trapped ions interacting with lasers to simulate some quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics, eg. quantum magnitism and the superfluid to Mott-insulator phase transition. In the second part I will turn to cold atoms in optical lattices, especially I will focus on dipolar bosons confined in one-dimensional optical lattices with/without disorders. I will give our new results on the quantum phase transions in this system.
Short Bio:
Xiaolong Deng was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and obtained his doctorate in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he was a post-doctor at the CNRS in Grenoble. Since 2009 he has been a post-doctor at the University of Hannover.