Speaker
Prof.
Peter Zoller
(University of Insbruck)
Description
Recently, the condensed matter and atomic physics
communities have mutually benefited from synergies emerging
from the quantum simulation of strongly correlated systems
using atomic setups. In the first part of the talk we give
an overview of analog and digital quantum simulation with
cold atoms in optical lattices and trapped ions. In the
second part we discuss possible future directions: while
there is presently significant interest in artificial gauge
fields mimicking magnetic fields in (neutral) atom setups to
observe phenomena like fractional quantum Hall physics, we
will discuss prospects of realizing simple models of
dynamical gauge fields (lattice gauge theories) as a next
generation of possible cold atom experiments, where the
(very) long term goal is to develop atomic quantum
simulators for QED and QCD.
Primary author
Prof.
Peter Zoller
(University of Insbruck)
