Joint ICTP/SISSA SP Seminar 24 May 2016 @ ICTP Stasi Seminar Room

[Condensed Matter Section]

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

Tuesday 24 May - 11:30 a.m.

Stasi Seminar Room, ICTP, Leonardo building


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Speaker: Emanuele G. DALLA TORRE (Dept. of Physics, Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel)

Title: Parametric Resonances: From Single Atoms to Many-body Systems


Abstract:
I will open my talk by explaining the fundamental concept of parametric 
resonance and giving examples of some practical application (Paul traps, 
Kapitza pendulum). I will then clarify why the existence of this 
phenomenon in many-body systems is still debated. Although it is 
believed that large systems cannot display true parametric resonances, I 
will overview some exceptions to this general rule. In the last part of 
the talk, I will describe some new results on the dynamics of 
periodically-driven many-body quantum systems.

REFERENCES:
Citro etal, Annals of Physics, 360, 694 (2015)
Russomanno and Dalla Torre, arxiv:1510.08866

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