23 - 27 June, 2024
Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Events
Immanuel Bloch
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
New Avenues for Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms, Molecules and Photons
40 years ago, Richard Feynman outlined his vision of a quantum simulator for carrying out complex calculations of physical problems. Today, his dream has become a reality and a highly active field of research across different platforms ranging from ultracold atoms and ions to superconducting qubits and photons. In my talk, I will outline how ultracold atoms in optical lattices started this vibrant and interdisciplinary research field 20 years ago and now allow probing quantum phases in- and out-of-equilibrium with fundamentally new tools and single particle resolution. Novel (hidden) order parameters, entanglement properties, full counting statistics or topological features can now be measured routinely and provide deep new insight into the world of correlated quantum matter. I will introduce the measurement and control techniques in these systems and delineate recent applications regarding quantum simulations of strongly correlated electronic systems, experiments on new dynamical phases of matter, novel quantum optical light-matter interfaces and progress towards realizing ultracold quantum matter of polar molecules.
About the Speaker
Immanuel Bloch is the scientific director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, and professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich. Immanuel Bloch obtained his PhD in physics in 2000 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2003-2009 he was full professor at the University of Mainz. In 2009, he returned to Munich, where his research focused on investigating quantum many-body systems, quantum simulations and quantum information processing. Immanuel Bloch received several prizes for his work, among them the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz prize of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the German National Merit Medal in 2005, the International Commission of Optics prize, the Senior Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics of the European Physical Society, the Körber European Science Prize, the Senior BEC Award, the Harvey Prize of the Technion the Zeiss Research Award and was named Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2022 for his pioneering work on Quantum Simulation.
