Workshop on Ultracold Atoms and Gauge Theories

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Monday, 13 May 2013

08:30 - 09:50 REGISTRATION

Registration of participants outside the Main Lecture Hall (Leonardo da Vinci Building, Main Entrance level), and administrative/financial matters

08:30 REGISTRATION 1h20'

09:50 - 10:00 Welcome address
- 09:50 Welcome address 10'

10:00 - 10:40 Experimental realization of spin-orbit coupled degenerate Fermi gas

10:00 Experimental realization of spin-orbit coupled degenerate Fermi gas 40'

Speaker:	Jing Zhang (Shanxi University)
Material:	abstract

10:40 - 11:20 Exploring artificial quantum-many body systems with ultracold fermions in a tunable-geometry optical lattice

10:40 Exploring artificial quantum-many body systems with ultracold fermions in a tunable-geometry optical lattice 40'

Speaker:	Daniel Greif (ETH Zürich)
Material:	abstract

11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break
- 11:20 Coffee break 30'

11:50 - 12:30 Imaging Topological States in Ultracold Atomic Gases

11:50 Imaging Topological States in Ultracold Atomic Gases 40'

Speaker:	Nathan Goldman (Unversité Libre de Bruxelles)
Material:	abstract

12:30 - 13:10 Quantum quenches in one dimensional systems

12:30 Quantum quenches in one dimensional systems 40'

Speaker:	Pasquale Calabrese (Università di Pisa)
Material:	abstract

13:10 - 15:00 Lunch break

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- 13:10 Lunch break 1h50'

15:00 - 15:40 Topological Insulators and Superconductors

15:00 Topological Insulators and Superconductors 40'

Speaker:	M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University)
Material:	abstract

15:40 - 16:20 Topological Insulators under Quantum Dissipative Dynamics

15:40 Topological Insulators under Quantum Dissipative Dynamics 40'

Speaker:	Miguel Angel Martín-Delgado (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
Material:	abstract

16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
- 16:20 Coffee break 30'

16:50 - 17:30 Paired phases in U(1)xU(1) gauge theories

16:50 Paired phases in U(1)xU(1) gauge theories 40'

Speaker:	Egor Babaev (KTH Stockholm)
Material:	abstract

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

09:00 - 09:40 Quantum correlations in driven-dissipative arrays of weakly nonlinear optical cavities

09:00 Quantum correlations in driven-dissipative arrays of weakly nonlinear optical cavities 40'

Speaker:	Vincenzo Savona (EPFL Lausanne)
Material:	abstract

09:40 - 10:20 Quantum Hall physics with light

09:40 Quantum Hall physics with light 40'

Speaker:	Jacob M. Taylor (NIST & University of Maryland)
Material:	abstract

10:20 - 11:00 Quantum fluids of light under synthetic gauge fields

10:20 Quantum fluids of light under synthetic gauge fields 40'

Speaker:	Iacopo Carusotto (INO-BEC and Università di Trento)
Material:	abstract slides

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 Coffee break 30'

11:30 - 12:10 First and second sound in Fermi gas at unitarity

11:30 First and second sound in Fermi gas at unitarity 40'

Speaker:	Lev Pitaevskii (INO-CNR BEC and Università di Trento)
Material:	abstract

12:10 - 12:50 Exotic Superfluid in Ultracold Atomic Gases from Synthetic Gauge Fields

12:10 Exotic Superfluid in Ultracold Atomic Gases from Synthetic Gauge Fields 40'

Speaker:	Hui Zhai (Tsinghua University)
Material:	abstract

12:50 - 15:00 Lunch break

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- 12:50 Lunch break 2h10'

15:00 - 15:40 Gauge fields far from equilibrium

15:00 Gauge fields far from equilibrium 40'

Speaker:	Jürgen Berges (University of Heidelberg)
Material:	abstract

15:40 - 16:20 Ultracold color superconductors

15:40 Ultracold color superconductors 40'

Speaker:	Massimo Mannarelli (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)
Material:	abstract slides

16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
- 16:20 Coffee break 30'

16:50 - 17:30 The holographic master field

16:50 The holographic master field 40'

Speaker:	Mukund Rangamani (Durham University)
Material:	abstract slides

17:30 - 18:10 Holographic Entanglement Entropy & Causal Holographic Information

17:30 Holographic Entanglement Entropy & Causal Holographic Information 40'

Speaker:	Veronika Hubeny (Durham University)
Material:	abstract slides

18:30 - 20:00 POSTER SESSION

Outside the Main Lecture Hall (in the Poster Gallery, and Lobby)

18:30 POSTER SESSION 1h30'

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

09:00 - 09:40 Spin-Orbit Coupling and Heavy Solitons in Fermi Gases

09:00 Spin-Orbit Coupling and Heavy Solitons in Fermi Gases 40'

Speaker:	Tariq Yefsah (MIT Cambridge)
Material:	abstract slides

09:40 - 10:20 Accessing strongly correlated atomic states and probing atom currents in synthetic gauge fields

09:40 Accessing strongly correlated atomic states and probing atom currents in synthetic gauge fields 40'

Speaker:	Arun Paramekanti (University of Toronto)
Material:	abstract slides

10:20 - 11:00 BCS-BEC crossover with Rashba and Dresselhaus couplings

10:20 BCS-BEC crossover with Rashba and Dresselhaus couplings 40'

Speaker:	Luca Salasnich (Università di Padova)
Material:	abstract slides

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 Coffee break 30'

11:30 - 11:55 Effect of synthetic spin-orbit coupling on statistical interactions in atomic quantum gases

11:30 Effect of synthetic spin-orbit coupling on statistical interactions in atomic quantum gases 25'

Speaker:	G.S. Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
Material:	abstract

11:55 - 12:20 Superstripes and the excitation spectrum of a spin-orbit-coupled BEC

11:55 Superstripes and the excitation spectrum of a spin-orbit-coupled BEC 25'

Speaker:	Yun Li (INO-CNR BEC and Università di Trento)
Material:	abstract slides

12:20 - 12:20 Lunch, and free afternoon

Location:
- 12:20 Lunch, and free afternoon
19:30 - 20:30 Reception for all participants

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- 19:30 Reception for all participants 1h0'

Thursday, 16 May 2013

09:00 - 09:40 Quantum Simulators of Lattice Gauge Theories

09:00 Quantum Simulators of Lattice Gauge Theories 40'

Speaker:	Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO Barcelona)
Material:	abstract

09:40 - 10:20 Simulating an interacting gauge theory with ultracold Bose gases

09:40 Simulating an interacting gauge theory with ultracold Bose gases 40'

Speaker:	Patrik Öhberg (Heriot-Watt University)
Material:	abstract

10:20 - 11:00 Making Gauge Fields Real

10:20 Making Gauge Fields Real 40'

Speaker:	Benjamin Stuhl (NIST and University of Maryland)
Material:	abstract

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 Coffee break 30'

11:30 - 12:10 Atomic Quantum Simulation of U(N) and SU(N) Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories

11:30 Atomic Quantum Simulation of U(N) and SU(N) Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories 40'

Speaker:	Enrique Rico Ortega (Institute for Quantum Information Processing, Ulm)
Material:	abstract slides

12:10 - 15:00 Lunch break

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- 12:10 Lunch break 2h50'

15:00 - 15:40 Simulation of dynamic abelian and non-abelian gauge theories with ultracold atoms

15:00 Simulation of dynamic abelian and non-abelian gauge theories with ultracold atoms 40'

Speaker:	Benni Reznik (Tel Aviv University)
Material:	abstract slides

15:40 - 16:05 Landau-Stark states for cold atoms in a parabolic lattice

15:40 Landau-Stark states for cold atoms in a parabolic lattice 25'

Speaker:	Andrey Kolovskiy (Kirensky Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk)
Material:	abstract slides

16:05 - 16:30 An AMO toolbox for Majorana Fermions in Optical Lattices

16:05 An AMO toolbox for Majorana Fermions in Optical Lattices 25'

Speaker:	Christina Kraus (IQOQI Innsbruck)
Material:	abstract slides

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
- 16:30 Coffee break 30'

Friday, 17 May 2013

09:00 - 09:40 Quantum simulation with two-electron Fermi gases in optical lattices

09:00 Quantum simulation with two-electron Fermi gases in optical lattices 40'

Speaker:	Leonardo Fallani (LENS Firenze)
Material:	abstract

09:40 - 10:20 Topological Insulators, Mott physics and Artificial Gauge Fields

09:40 Topological Insulators, Mott physics and Artificial Gauge Fields 40'

Speaker:	Karyn Le Hur (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau)
Material:	abstract slides

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
- 10:20 Coffee break 30'

10:50 - 11:30 Symmetries of spin-orbit coupled particles

10:50 Symmetries of spin-orbit coupled particles 40'

Speaker:	Kareljian Schoutens (University of Amsterdam)
Material:	abstract slides

11:30 - 12:10 Two-dimensional arrays of Parafermionic zero modes

11:30 Two-dimensional arrays of Parafermionic zero modes 40'

Speaker:	Michele Burrello (Lorentz Institute, Leiden)
Material:	abstract

12:10 - 12:20 Closing remarks
- 12:10 Closing remarks 10'