Home News Seminars Seminar Archiv 2016 Seminare Archiv 2016 Speaker: Yannick Meurice, University of Iowa Proposals to implement the Abelian Higgs model on optical lattice (Yannick Meurice) Date: May 24, 2016 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Yannick Meurice, University of Iowa Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall Host: Dr. Randolf Pohl, Laser Spectroscopy Division The Abelian Higgs model in 1 space and 1 time dimensions has important features in common with models relevant for high energy physics: confinement and existence of topological solutions of the classical equations of motion. [more]