Weak Interaction Discussion Group (WIDG)

WIDG Seminar, Grant Schumacher, Yale University, “Experimental and Computational Approaches.”

Name: WIDG Seminar, Grant Schumacher, Yale University, “Experimental and Computational Approaches.”
Start: 2019-11-12T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-12T13:00:00-05:00
Location: No location set

Tuesday Nov 12, 2019, 12:00 PM → 1:00 PM US/Eastern

Description

Following the experimental realization of BEC in 1995, cold atoms have emerged as a near-perfect platform for exploring many-body physics. These systems are extremely clean (having effectively no impurities), well isolated, and completely tunable. In this talk, I will explain the basic principles of cold atom systems, introduce the “universality” that makes these systems so interesting, and illustrate a fundamental experimental problem facing the field. I will then describe the experiment we are building in the Navon group and how it solves this problem using digital micro-mirror devices ("programmable mirrors"). Finally, I will discuss some computational aspects of cold atom systems (time permitting).

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WIDG Seminar, Grant Schumacher, Yale University, “Experimental and Computational Approaches.”