Probing and controlling quantum many-body systems in optical lattices

Bloch, Immanuel (2016): Probing and controlling quantum many-body systems in optical lattices. In: Inguscio, Massimo (ed.) : Quantum Matter at Ultralow Temperatures : proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", course 191, Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 7 - 15 July 2014. Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Vol. 191. Amsterdam: IOS Press. pp. 299-323

Abstract

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have proven to provide an extremely clean and controlled setting to explore strongly interacting quantum many-body phases of matter. Imaging of atoms in such lattice structures has reached the level of single-atom sensitive detection combined with the highest resolution down to the level of individual lattice sites. This has opened up fundamentally new opportunities for the characterization and the control of quantum many-body systems including quantum magnetism. These lecture notes cover selected parts of the course given at the Varenna Summer School on "Quantum Matter at Ultralow Temperatures".

• Item Type: Book Section
• Faculties: Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
• ISBN: 978-1-61499-693-4 (print) | 978-1-61499-694-1 (online)
• ISSN: 0074-784X
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Language: English