Beyond mean-field physics with multimode cavity QED

Seminar
Special Seminar
Speaker
Prof. Benjamin Lev, Stanford University
Date
25/01/2015 - 16:00Add to Calendar 2015-01-25 16:00:00 2015-01-25 16:00:00 Beyond mean-field physics with multimode cavity QED Investigations of many-body physics in an AMO context often employ a static optical lattice to create a periodic potential. Such systems, while capable of exploring, e.g., the Hubbard model, lack the fully emergent crystalline order found in solid state systems whose stiffness is not imposed externally, but arises dynamically. We will discuss our multimode cavity QED experiment to explore the spontaneous continuous symmetry breaking observed in compliant crystallization, providing an environment to observe effects pertinent to soft condensed matter systems including frustration and liquid crystalline topological defects concomitant with superfluidity. Associative memory and spin-glasses also may form due to cavity-mediated long-range, oscillatory, and frustrated spin-spin interactions This is the first time that Prof. Lev comes to Israel and an exceptional occasion to meet it. To schedule a meeting with the speaker: doodle.com/zk7cgrbtfrcpeq28 Local contact: Emanuele Dalla Torre, Emanuele.dalla-torre@biu.ac.il More info: “LevLab Where Quantum Matters” – levlab.stanford.edu   Reznik (Building 209), Room 210 Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Reznik (Building 209), Room 210
Abstract

Investigations of many-body physics in an AMO context often employ a static optical lattice to create a periodic potential. Such systems, while capable of exploring, e.g., the Hubbard model, lack the fully emergent crystalline order found in solid state systems whose stiffness is not imposed externally, but arises dynamically. We will discuss our multimode cavity QED experiment to explore the spontaneous continuous symmetry breaking observed in compliant crystallization, providing an environment to observe effects pertinent to soft condensed matter systems including frustration and liquid crystalline topological defects concomitant with superfluidity. Associative memory and spin-glasses also may form due to cavity-mediated long-range, oscillatory, and frustrated spin-spin interactions

This is the first time that Prof. Lev comes to Israel and an exceptional occasion to meet it.

To schedule a meeting with the speaker: doodle.com/zk7cgrbtfrcpeq28

Local contact: Emanuele Dalla Torre, Emanuele.dalla-torre@biu.ac.il

More info: “LevLab Where Quantum Matters” – levlab.stanford.edu

 

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benjaminlev_barilan_01_2015.pdf

Last Updated Date : 19/01/2015