Date:
Sun, 21/09/201412:00-13:30
Location:
Danciger B building, Seminar room
Dr. Erez Zohar, Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany
Abstract:
Quantum Simulation, proposed by Richard Feynman, has been a rapidly growing research field in the recent years. It involves mapping quantum theories which may be inaccessible (analytically, numerically and experimentally) into others which are controllable in the laboratory, which serve as their "analog quantum computers" simulating the dynamics of the models of interest.
We use ultracold atoms trapped in optical lattices as quantum simulators for 1+1 and 2+1 dimensional dynamic gauge theories. I will discuss the different simulating methods, which involve various theoretical mappings and optical implementations - either BECs or single atoms, and include the possibility to simulate the gauge field dynamics, observe confinement (flux tubes and loops) and measure Wilson's area law, in Abelian (U(1) - compact QED and Z_N) or non-Abelian (SU(N)) lattice gauge theories.
Abstract:
Quantum Simulation, proposed by Richard Feynman, has been a rapidly growing research field in the recent years. It involves mapping quantum theories which may be inaccessible (analytically, numerically and experimentally) into others which are controllable in the laboratory, which serve as their "analog quantum computers" simulating the dynamics of the models of interest.
We use ultracold atoms trapped in optical lattices as quantum simulators for 1+1 and 2+1 dimensional dynamic gauge theories. I will discuss the different simulating methods, which involve various theoretical mappings and optical implementations - either BECs or single atoms, and include the possibility to simulate the gauge field dynamics, observe confinement (flux tubes and loops) and measure Wilson's area law, in Abelian (U(1) - compact QED and Z_N) or non-Abelian (SU(N)) lattice gauge theories.