Strongly-correlated ultra-cold atomic gases (mostly in optical lattices) (WS 11/12)

Start :17.10.2011

This lecture will be held in English

Where and when: Mondays 10:00-12:00 (Appelstr. 2, 2nd Floor, 268)

Assistent: Kazimierz Lakomy

Syllabus

Scripts
Bose-Einstein condensates
Atoms in optical lattices (I)
Atoms in optical lattices (II): Spin-1/2 lattice gases
Properties of the Heisenberg model
Atoms in optical lattices (III): Other lattice models and control knobs
One-dimensional spin models

Bibliography
A. Auerbach, "Interacting electrons and quantum magnetism"
A. Georges, cond-mat/0702122
D. C. Mckay and B. DeMarco, arXiv:1010.0198
H.-J. Mikeska and A. Kolezhuk, cond-mat/0501603
L. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari, "Bose-Einstein Condensation"
M. Lewenstein et al., cond-mat/0606771
I. Bloch et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 885 (2008)
We will also use many other papers that I will mention in the class