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DTSTART:20160126T190000Z
DTEND:20160126T200000Z
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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/1541
SUMMARY:Topology and Localization with Long-range Interactions
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Chris Laumann\, U of Washington\n\nPart of the Conden
	sed Matter Theory Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract: The trapping of ultracold at
	omic gases has opened new windows into the quantum phases of neutral partic
	les. A remarkable amount of pretty physics - Bose condensation\, Cooper pai
	red superfluidity and Mott localization - has been observed. Even more rema
	rkably this has been done with interactions\, which are typically short-ran
	ged and weak.  \n\nRecent progress in the control of long-range interacting
	 systems — polar molecules\, Rydberg atoms and trapped ions — allows a 
	completely different piece of physics to enter the game. In this talk\, I w
	ill review the general setting and then give three examples of how long-ran
	ge interactions can lead to new physics inaccessible in existing systems. \
	n\nFirst\, I will describe the adiabatic preparation of topologically order
	ed phases in driven\, dipolar-interacting spin systems. Second\, in the pre
	sence of strong disorder\, I will show that these systems can directly expl
	ore physics beyond that of single particle Anderson localization and will c
	omment on recent experiments. Finally\, I will combine these stories and de
	scribe how localization can protect topological order far out-of-equilibriu
	m.
LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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