Hubbard Models and Ultracold atom experiments: What can we learn from the dialog?

by Prof. Nandini Trivedi (Ohio State University)

Tuesday 8 Dec 2009, 11:30 → 12:30 Asia/Kolkata

A-304 (Colaba Campus)

Optical lattices are emerging as amazing emulators of Hubbard-type models for bosons and fermions. I will address some of the major challenges in mapping out the finite temperature phase diagram of such strongly interacting models. I will also discuss the distribution of entropy in the trap and how that can be used to cool the system to see ultra-low temperature phases.