Ultracold Quantum Gases -

Current Trends and Future Perspectives
 

Since the first experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold atomic gases in 1995, there have several substantial breakthroughs. Today, systems of bosonic or fermionic quantum gases allow for a very high level of experimental control concerning all ingredients of the underlying many-body Hamiltonian. The underlying trapping geometry can be designed to be harmonic, anharmonic or, recently, even box-like which mimics a quasi-uniform potential. Furthermore, the shape of the two-particle interaction can be modified from the short-ranged and isotropic contact interaction to the long-ranged and anisotropic dipolar interaction. In particular the possibility to tune the strength of the contact interaction to basically any attractive or repulsive value with the aid of the Feshbach resonance allows nowadays to probe quantum fluids in regimes and under conditions hitherto unavailable. Since 2011 it has even been experimentally achieved to also tune the kinetic energy of the many-body Hamiltonian by producing synthetic spin-orbit coupling. This nourishes the prospect to generate for neutral atoms abelian gauge fields, as they appear in electromagnism for charged particles, but also non-abelian gauge fields, as they occur in the standard model of elementary particle physics. Therefore, quantum gases are considered to be ideal quantum simulators, i.e. they are best capable to simulate difficult quantum problems in condensed matter physics and other fields of physics in the sense of Richard Feynman from 1982.
 
This seminar, which will bring together about 80 participants in May 2016, will provide a comprehensive survey of the different facets of this rapidly evolving subject. Leading international experts will review the present status of the most promising developments concerning ultracold quantum gases from both the experimental and the theoretical point of view, and will discuss future trends and perspectives. Participants are invited to present their current research in two poster sessions. In addition, 8 outstanding contributions will be selected for shorter talks.
 
Thus, the seminar will foster the exchange of information in this fast-developing field at the frontier of contemporary physics, and provide ample opportunity for scientific discussions. Similar to the previous workshops

• Quo vadis BEC? I;
  Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany,
  October 27 -- 29, 2006

• 422nd Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar Quo vadis BEC? II;
  Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany,
  October 29 -- 31, 2008

• Summer School and Workshop Quo vadis BEC? III;
  Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,
  August 2 -- 20, 2010

• 514th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar Quo vadis BEC? IV;
  Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany,
  August 21 -- 25, 2012

• 579th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar Quo vadis BEC? V;
  Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany,
  December 16 -- 20, 2014

it is also intended to initiate future collaborations amongst the participants.

 
Location

Travel Information Bad Honnef

Research Topics

Strong Correlations
Dipolar Quantum Gases
Quantum Information
Hybrid Systems
Disorder Effects
Spinor BEC
Degenerate Fermions
BEC/BCS crossover
Tunneling
Dynamics
Spin-Orbit Coupling
Gauge Fields
Magnetism
Anyons
Vortices and Transport
Turbulence

Invited Speakers

Eugene Demler

Rembert Duine

Tilman Esslinger

Leonardo Fallani

Igor Ferrier-Barbut

Michael Fleischhauer

Thierry Giamarchi

Rudolf Grimm

Johannes Hecker-Denschlag

Andreas Hemmerich

Jason Ho

Walter Hofstetter

Randy Hulet

Corinna Kollath

Stefan Kuhr

Kazimierz Rzazewski

Anna Sanpera

Luis Santos

Jörg Schmiedmayer

Dan Stamper-Kurn

Sandro Stringari

Jacques Tempere

Päivi Törmä

Matthias Weidemüller

Eugene Zaremba

Peter Zoller

Contributed Talks

Georg Bruun

Lauriane Chomaz

Daniel Greif

Fabrizio Larcher

Nadine Meyer

Milan Radonjic

Frank Vewinger

Patricia Vignolo

Latest news:

- The 616th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar Ultracold Quantum Gases Current Trends and Future Perspectives will be funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.
- There will be no registration fee for participants. Lodging and meals will be fully covered at the Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef (Germany).
- Studens and reseachers, who would like to attend the 616th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Ultracold Quantum Gases Current Trends and Future Perspectives, should send an informal email to
axel.pelster ad physik.uni-kl.de
until March 6, 2016.
In case that you would like to present a poster, please send both title and abstract.
- The accepted participants will be informed by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation after the deadline March 6, 2016.
We have received so many applications that the 616th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar is booked out. In case of cancellations, applicants on the waiting list will be invited to participate on short notice.
- Note that the arrival for the 616th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar is scheduled on the late afternoon of Sunday, May 8, 2016 as the conference will start on Monday, May 9, 2016 at 9.00 and will end on Friday, May 13, 2016 after lunch time.

- The preliminary program is available here: program draft from 21.04.2016

Poster:

The poster for the 616th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar Ultracold Quantum Gases Current Trends and Future Perspectives can be downloaded from the homepage.

Scientific Organizers: