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Project leader: T. Giamarchi (UniGE)
Participating members: G. Blatter (ETHZ), T. Esslinger (ETHZ), T. Giamarchi (UniGE), V. Gritsev (UniFR), M. Troyer (ETHZ).

Summary

The project aims to bring together researchers in cold atoms with those in the condensed matter community. Cold atoms offer unique possibilities of realizing model systems with an unprecedented level of control and tunability, allowing many issues pertinent to the field of strong correlations to be tested, and are thus directly centered on the interest of the MaNEP community. The project revolves around three main axes. (i) The exploration, both theoretical and experimental, of the various model systems, such as the Hubbard model, that can be realized in cold atomic gases. (ii) The issues of probes and thermometry that are mandatory for investigations of the physics of the strongly correlated quantum systems that can be realized in cold atomic gases. (iii) The out-of-equilibrium dynamical situations and novel phases that can be realized in cold atomic gases and which do not yet have a counterpart in condensed matter but can potentially open new fields of investigation, or guide the search for new materials.