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LOCATION:5310 Chamberlin
SUMMARY:Engineering Synthetic Quantum Materials from Cold Atoms: Mott 
 Insulators to Emergent Polariton Crystals\, R. G. Herb Condensed Matte
 r Seminar\, Jonathan Simon\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:The tools of atomic physics provide a unique and powerful 
 toolbox for studies of quantum many-body physics. Using such systems i
 t has recently become possible to engineer strongly-correlated materia
 ls from the ground up and probe them with single-atom resolution. I wi
 ll describe experiments in which we have synthesized the first magneti
 c material composed of ultracold atoms\, and watched it undergo a quan
 tum phase transition from a paramagnet to an antiferromagnet. I will t
 hen introduce a new algorithmic cooling scheme that we have demonstrat
 ed\, pointing the way to yet more exotic quantum phases that exist at 
 lower temperatures. Finally\, I will describe ongoing efforts to devel
 op materials composed of strongly correlated photons whose long-range 
 anisotropic interactions will open new horizons\, permitting studies o
 f quantum soft-matter.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2854
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