Focus Session: Quantum Simulation of Condensed Matter Systems With Ultracold Atoms

Presentations

• Simulating Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field with Ultra-cold Atoms Using Light-induced Effective Gauge Fields

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 7:00 AM – March 10, 2008, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Yu-Ju Lin

    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland

  • William Phillips

    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland

  • James Porto

    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland

  • Ian Spielman

    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland

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• Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Cold Atoms in Non-Abelian Gauge Potentials

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 7:12 AM – March 10, 2008, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • Indubala Satija

    • George Mason University
    • Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    • George Mason University and NIST
    • Department of Physics, George Mason University

  • Daniel Dakin

    • Optical Air Data Systems

  • J. Y. Vaishnav

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Charles W. Clark

    • NIST, Gaithersburg, and JQI, UMD
    • Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and the University of Maryland
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• Observing {\it Zitterbewegung} in Ultracold Atoms

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 7:24 AM – March 10, 2008, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • J. Y. Vaishnav

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Charles W. Clark

    • NIST, Gaithersburg, and JQI, UMD
    • Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and the University of Maryland
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899
    • Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• Detecting the Bose glass in optical lattices

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 7:36 AM – March 10, 2008, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Tommaso Roscilde

    • Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics

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• Phase Coherence and Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Disordered Bose-Einstein Condensate$^1$

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 7:48 AM – March 10, 2008, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Yong P. Chen$^2$

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX 77005 USA

  • J. Hitchcock

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX 77005 USA

  • D. Dries

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX 77005 USA

  • M. Junker

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX 77005 USA

  • C. Welford

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX 77005 USA

  • R. G. Hulet

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX 77005 USA

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• Effects of disorder on the interacting Fermi gases in one-dimensional optical lattices

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 8:00 AM – March 10, 2008, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • B. Tanatar

    • Physics Department, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey

  • Gao Xianlong

    • Physics Department, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004 China

  • M. Polini

    • NEST-CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore I-56126 Pisa, Italy

  • M. P. Tosi

    • NEST-CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore I-56126 Pisa, Italy

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• Probing non local order parameters in highly correlated Bose insulators

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 10, 2008, 8:12 AM – March 10, 2008, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ehud Altman

    • Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

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• A Hexagonal Lattice Ion Trap for Quantum Simulation of Spin Models

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 8:48 AM – March 10, 2008, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Ziliang Lin

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Robert Clark

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Yufei Ge

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Isaac Chuang

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulations of Spin Systems: From Two Qubits to Thousands

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 9:00 AM – March 10, 2008, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Warren Lybarger

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Dana Berkeland

    • IARPA

  • John Chiaverini

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Quantitative determination of the Hubbard model phase diagram from optical lattice experiments: overcoming the singular nature of the thermodynamic limit

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 9:12 AM – March 10, 2008, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Vivaldo Campo, Jr.

    • Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil and Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • Klaus Capelle

    • Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • Jorge Quintanilla

    • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, U.K.

  • Chris Hooley

    • University of St Andrews, U.K.

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• The p$_{x,y}$-orbital counterpart of graphene -- cold fermions in the honeycomb optical lattices

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 9:24 AM – March 10, 2008, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Congjun Wu

    • University of California, San Diego
    • Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
    • Physics Department, UCSD

  • Doron Bergman

    • Physics Department, Yale

  • Leon Balents

    • Physics Department, UCSB

  • Sankar Das Sarma

    • Physics Department, Univ. of Maryland

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• DMRG Studies for Strongly-Correlated Fermions on a Triangular Optical Lattice

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 9:36 AM – March 10, 2008, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Masahiko Okumura

    • CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
    • CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency and JST(CREST)

  • Susumu Yamada

    • CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
    • CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency and JST(CREST)

  • Masahiko Machida

    • CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
    • CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency and JST(CREST)

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• Order parameter statistics at a quantum phase transition

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 9:48 AM – March 10, 2008, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Austen Lamacraft

    • University of Virginia

  • Paul Fendley

    • University of Virginia and All Souls College, Oxford

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