Speaker
Tilman Esslinger
(ETH Zurich)
Description
The wave nature of matter materializes in interference experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates. Correspondingly, the particle nature can be made observable by detecting individual atoms. Yet, it is the interactions between the atoms and between atoms and light that give rise to intriguing phenomena and a multitude of phases, including superfluid, supersolid, Mott-insulating and topological phases. I will provide a perspective on quantum gas experiments and show how we can synthetically create quantum many-body systems with tailored interactions and topology. I will highlight recent experiments in which we investigate the interplay between non-trivial topologies and strong interactions.
Primary author
Tilman Esslinger
(ETH Zurich)
