Simulating Quantum Matter with Ultracold Atoms

CFM Seminars

Speaker

Michele Modugno
Ikerbasque - UPV/EHU

When

2025/03/17
15:00

Place

CFM Auditorium

Host

Ivo Souza

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Ultracold atomic gases provide an exceptionally versatile and tunable platform for exploring a wide range of quantum many-body phenomena. In this talk, I will give a general introduction to the field from a historical perspective, highlighting key advances that have established ultracold atoms as a powerful tool for simulating complex quantum systems. I will then discuss some of the topics we have been investigating in recent years in Bilbao, including the ab-initio construction of tight-binding models for simulating condensed matter systems with ultracold atoms in optical lattices, the study of novel states of matter such as liquid-like quantum droplets and supersolids, and the simulation of quantum analogs of classical instabilities. The focus of the seminar will be pedagogical, aiming to make these concepts accessible to non-specialists while illustrating the rich physics that can be explored in these systems.