Seminar on Thurs. 16 December

[Joint ICTP-IAEA School of Nuclear Knowledge Management]

CONDENSED MATTER AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS SECTION

    
SEMINAR on
Disorder and strong electron correlations


Thursday, 16 December   -  11:30 a.m.


Luigi Stasi Seminar Room,  Leonardo Building - first floor


Barbara CAPOGROSSO-SANSONE  ( Harvard )


"Solids, supersolids, and pairing with dipolar bosons in optical lattices"


Abstract:

We discuss dipolar bosons trapped in single layer and multilayer optical 
lattices and study quantum phases stabilized by the long range dipolar 
interaction.  Such systems can be realized experimentally by ultracold 
samples of polar molecules.  We have observed solid, supersolid and 
pairing phases.  The latter can be stabilized in the presence of a 
mixture of atoms and polar molecules, and in multilayered systems.  Our 
results are based on quantum Monte Carlo simulations and are exact in a 
statistical sense.