Proposals to implement the Abelian Higgs model on optical lattice (Yannick Meurice)
- Datum: 24.05.2016
- Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:00
- Vortragende(r): Yannick Meurice, University of Iowa
- Raum: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
- Gastgeber: 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.
It is also one of the simplest model studied by lattice gauge
theorists. In the weak gauge coupling limit it reduces to the classical
XY model which has a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. I review the
lattice gauge theory formulations of the model and describe recent
proposals to implement this theory on optical lattices. I discuss recent
progress regarding the entanglement entropy and the possibility of
driving the system in a conformal (superfluid) phase.