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SUMMARY:Nanophotonics for quantum simulation
DESCRIPTION:Photonic Crystals (PhCs) are periodically patterned dielectric structures that allow to engineer and control the propagation of light at the nanoscale.  In this seminar, we show how PhCs allow to build high-density optical lattices for ultra cold atoms yielding larger energy scales in the simulation of Bose-Hubbard and spin models. Furthermore, we show how PhCs also provide a very versatile way of mediating large and long-range interactions which can be conservative or dissipative, depending on whether the atomic transition lies within the band-gap or not. We analyze the prospects of this scheme to engineer spin models for quantum simulation.
LOCATION:Erwin Schrödinger Saal
DTSTART:20140513T150000
DTEND:20140513T160000
TZID: Europe/Vienna
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