“Many-body physics with ultracold gases of atoms and molecules”
Understanding emergent behaviors in strongly interacting quantum systems is a frontier area of condensed matter physics. However, simulations of such systems on classical computers are not scalable beyond a few dozen particles. This motivates the development of quantum simulators, highly controllable analog quantum computers specifically designed to study certain types of problems in many-body physics. I will present an overview of quantum simulation with ultracold gases of atoms and molecules, discussing examples relevant for understanding phenomena that occur in condensed matter materials, and others that explore completely novel regimes inaccessible in the solid-state. In particular, I will focus on advances enabled by the introduction of microscopy techniques that probe ultracold gases at the single-particle level and reveal the rich quantum correlations present in these systems.
Host: Jack Harris