"A deterministic few-fermion system for the quantum simulation of few-body systems."

  • Date: Nov 22, 2011
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Selim Jochim, Universität Heidelberg
  • Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPQ
Strongly correlated few-body systems are the building blocks of nature, with atoms and nuclei being prominent examples. We have realized artificial few-body systems consisting of 1-10 atoms in a tightly confining trap inwhich all quantum mechanical degrees of freedom can be controlled. In spite of this extraordinary control these systems are isolated from the environment on the time scale of experiments (up to 60s). We thus have a generic model system that allows us to study few-body theories developed for example in nuclear physics with exceptional flexibility [1]. While a system of two strongly interacting particles can be solved analytically, this is no longer the case for three or more. In this way conceptually very simple systems can be studied experimentally, for which no theoretical prediction exists. [1] F. Serwane et al., Science 332, 336 (2011
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