Ultracold atoms and optical lattices: old models and new tricks

Presenter: Scott Taylor

Accesible to all students

Over the past few decades, advances in methods of cooling and manipulating atomic gases have resulted in the creation of highly controllable and flexible quantum systems. This offers the prospect of a powerful new tool for condensed matter physics: the ability to study physical models by building them precisely in a laboratory and observing their behaviour. Another interesting feature of these systems is that their characteristic time-scales are relatively long, allowing us to observe non-equilibrium behaviour which is much harder to detect in more conventional condensed matter systems.

Duration: 1 hour

Host: PhySoc