Tilman Esslinger

Title

From Synthetic Many-Body Systems to Devices

Abstract

Is it possible to design and physically construct a many-body Hamiltonian? Will measurements on synthetically created Hamiltonians provide answers to open problems? In my talk I will address these questions from the perspective of quantum gas experiments, where the synthetic engineering of an increasingly large number of central models in quantum many-body physics has become possible. I will report on recent experiments with fermionic quantum gases in optical lattices, which provide access to the physics of the Fermi-Hubbard model, as well as Graphene. I will further raise the question whether it might become possible to simulate the physics of entire devices in the mesoscopic regime.