Workshop on Quantum Simulations with Ultracold Atoms

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Monday, 16 July 2012
- 08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Administrative Matters
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
  - 08:30 Registration and Administrative Matters 1h0'
- 09:30 - 09:40 Welcoming Address
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 09:30 Welcoming Address 10'
    
    Speaker: Directors of Workshop
- 09:40 - 10:20 Two-dimensional Fermi gases
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 09:40 Two-dimensional Fermi gases 40'
    
    Speaker: M. Koehl (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
- 10:20 - 11:00 Probing the dynamics of strongly correlated quantum systems with single-atom resolution
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 10:20 Probing the dynamics of strongly correlated quantum systems with single-atom resolution 40'
    
    Speaker: S. Kuhr (Univ. of Strathclyde, UK)
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:30 - 12:10 Bose-Einstein Condensation of Erbium
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 11:30 Bose-Einstein Condensation of Erbium 40'
    
    Speaker: F. Ferlaino (Univ. Innsbruck, Austria)
- 12:10 - 15:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:10 Lunch Break 2h50'
- 15:00 - 15:40 Experiments with disordered, interacting Bose gases
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:00 Experiments with disordered, interacting Bose gases 40'
    
    Speaker: G. Modugno (Univ. de Firenze, Italy)
- 15:40 - 16:20 Dirty bosons in one dimension
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:40 Dirty bosons in one dimension 40'
    
    Speaker: T. Giamarchi (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
- 16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:50 - 17:30 Who is the Lord of the Rings in the Zeeman-spin-orbit Saga: Majorana, Dirac or Lifshitz?
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 16:50 Who is the Lord of the Rings in the Zeeman-spin-orbit Saga: Majorana, Dirac or Lifshitz? 40'
    
    Speaker: C. Sa De Melo (Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
- 17:30 - 18:10 Mapping the Berry Curvature of Optical Lattices
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 17:30 Mapping the Berry Curvature of Optical Lattices 40'
    
    Speaker: N. Cooper (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
- 18:10 - 18:50 Identifying Topological Edge States in 2D Optical Lattices using Light Scattering
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 18:10 Identifying Topological Edge States in 2D Optical Lattices using Light Scattering 40'
    
    Speaker: N. Goldman (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

09:00 - 09:40 Thermodynamics of Bose and Fermi Quantum Gases

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 09:00 Thermodynamics of Bose and Fermi Quantum Gases 40'
  
  Speaker: C. Salomon (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
09:40 - 10:20 Exploring Universal Quantum Physics in few- and many-body atomic systems

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 09:40 Exploring Universal Quantum Physics in few- and many-body atomic systems 40'
  
  Speaker: C. Chin (Univ. of Chicago, USA)
10:20 - 11:00 Three Universal Trimers in Ultracold Atoms

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 10:20 Three Universal Trimers in Ultracold Atoms 40'
  
  Speaker: M. Ueda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
- 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
11:30 - 12:10 Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 11:30 Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates 40'
  
  Speaker: S. Stringari (Univ. degli Studi di Trento, Italy)

12:10 - 12:50 Repulsive polarons in a strongly interacting Fermi gas

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

12:10 Repulsive polarons in a strongly interacting Fermi gas 40'

Speaker:	G. Bruun (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark)
Material:	lecture notes

12:50 - 15:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 12:50 Lunch Break 2h10'
15:00 - 15:40 Rydberg-Rydberg interactions in ultracold atomic gases

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Rydberg-Rydberg interactions in ultracold atomic gases 40'
  
  Speaker: S. Hofferberth (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)
15:40 - 16:20 Quantum Simulations of and with Rydberg Atoms

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 15:40 Quantum Simulations of and with Rydberg Atoms 40'
  
  Speaker: T. Pohl (Max Planck Inst. for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
- 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
16:50 - 17:30 Simulation of interacting spins and anyons with Rydberg lattice gases

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 16:50 Simulation of interacting spins and anyons with Rydberg lattice gases 40'
  
  Speaker: I. Lesanovsky (Univ. of Nottingham, UK)
17:30 - 18:10 Rydberg-dressed atoms: from many-body phases to molecular cooling

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 17:30 Rydberg-dressed atoms: from many-body phases to molecular cooling 40'
  
  Speaker: G. Pupillo (IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria)

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
- 09:00 - 09:40 Superfluid behaviour of a two-dimensional Bose gas
  - 09:00 Superfluid behaviour of a two-dimensional Bose gas 40'
    
    Speaker: C. Weitenberg (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
- 09:40 - 10:20 Higgs amplitude mode in a 2D superfluid
  - 09:40 Higgs amplitude mode in a 2D superfluid 40'
    
    Speaker: N. Prokofiev (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
- 10:20 - 11:00 Phase transitions in real time following a quantum quench
  - 10:20 Phase transitions in real time following a quantum quench 40'
    
    Speaker: A. Polkovnikov (Boston Univ. Boston, USA)
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:30 - 12:10 Quantum spin analogues of Fractional Quantum Hall wave functions
  - 11:30 Quantum spin analogues of Fractional Quantum Hall wave functions 40'
    
    Speaker: G. Sierra (Inst. de Matematicas y Fisica Fundamental, Madrid, Spain)
- 12:10 - 12:50 Non-Equilibrium Behavior and Thermalization in 1D Bose Gases
  - 12:10 Non-Equilibrium Behavior and Thermalization in 1D Bose Gases 40'
    
    Speaker: R. Konik (Brookhaven National Lab. Upton, USA)
- 12:50 - 12:50 AFTERNOON FREE
  - 12:50 AFTERNOON FREE
- 20:00 - 20:00 SOCIAL DINNER
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 20:00 SOCIAL DINNER

Thursday, 19 July 2012

09:00 - 09:40 Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gases and the Evolution of Fermion Pairs from 3D to 2D

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 09:00 Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gases and the Evolution of Fermion Pairs from 3D to 2D 40'
  
  Speaker: A. Sommer (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA)
09:40 - 10:20 Synthetic gauge fields for ultracold atoms

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 09:40 Synthetic gauge fields for ultracold atoms 40'
  
  Speaker: R. A. Williams (NIST Univ. of Maryland, USA)
10:20 - 11:00 Engineering Dirac points with ultracold fermions in optical lattices

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 10:20 Engineering Dirac points with ultracold fermions in optical lattices 40'
  
  Speaker: L. Tarruell (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
- 11:00 Coffee Break 30'

11:30 - 12:10 The unitary Fermi gas: a benchmark case for many-body physics

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

11:30 The unitary Fermi gas: a benchmark case for many-body physics 40'

Speaker:	W. Zwerger (Technische Univ. Munchen, Germany)
Material:	lecture notes

12:10 - 12:50 Exploring topology with synthetic matter

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 12:10 Exploring topology with synthetic matter 40'
  
  Speaker: E. Demler (Harvard Univ. Cambridge, USA)
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
- 12:50 Lunch Break 2h10'
15:00 - 15:40 Dipolar Chromium BECs and Magnetism

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Dipolar Chromium BECs and Magnetism 40'
  
  Speaker: B. Laburthe-Tolra (Universite Paris XIII, Paris, France)
15:40 - 16:20 Ultracold dipolar bosonic molecules

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 15:40 Ultracold dipolar bosonic molecules 40'
  
  Speaker: T. Takekoshi (Inst. fur Experimentalphysik, Innsbruck, Austria)
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
- 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
16:50 - 17:30 Novel scenarios in ultra-cold lattice gases: Zig-zag optical lattices and gases with periodically modulated interactions

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 16:50 Novel scenarios in ultra-cold lattice gases: Zig-zag optical lattices and gases with periodically modulated interactions 40'
  
  Speaker: L. Santos (Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Germany)
17:30 - 18:10 Duality as a Tool for Quantum Simulation of Topological Matter

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 17:30 Duality as a Tool for Quantum Simulation of Topological Matter 40'
  
  Speaker: G. Ortiz (Indiana Univ. Bloomington, USA)
18:30 - 20:00 POSTER SESSION

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 18:30 POSTER SESSION 1h30'

Friday, 20 July 2012

09:00 - 09:40 Bifurcation - in the classical and quantum regime

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 09:00 Bifurcation - in the classical and quantum regime 40'
  
  Speaker: M. K. Oberthaler (Ruprecht Karls Univ. Heidelberg, Germany)
09:40 - 10:20 Simulating classical magnetism and artificial gauge fields in optical lattices

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 09:40 Simulating classical magnetism and artificial gauge fields in optical lattices 40'
  
  Speaker: P. Windpassinger (Univ. Hamburg, Germany)

10:20 - 11:00 An optical-lattice-based quantum simulator for relativistic field theories and topological insulators

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

10:20 An optical-lattice-based quantum simulator for relativistic field theories and topological insulators 40'

Speaker:	M. Rizzi (Max Planck Inst. fuer Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
- 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
11:30 - 12:10 Quantum simulation of an Extra Dimension

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 11:30 Quantum simulation of an Extra Dimension 40'
  
  Speaker: A. Celi (Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)
12:10 - 12:50 Entanglement, Distinguishability and Sub Shot-Noise Interferometry

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 12:10 Entanglement, Distinguishability and Sub Shot-Noise Interferometry 40'
  
  Speaker: A. Smerzi (Inst. Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Firenze, Italy)
12:50 - 13:00 Closing Remarks

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 12:50 Closing Remarks 10'