Kaden Hazzard
The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium Series presents Kaden Hazzard of Rice University on “What I create, I understand: engineering ultracold matter to decipher real materials.” on Thursday, April 23, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter Lecture Hall 245.
Abstract: Cooling matter to ultracold nano Kelvin-scale temperatures creates flexible, well-characterized quantum many-body systems that are amenable to the powerful experimental tools of atomic physics. The states that emerge can be analogous to those underlying exotic solid state materials, including high-temperature superconductors and exotic magnets. Because exactly calculating the properties of these materials is presently impossible, it is especially exciting to explore analogous behaviors in ultracold matter. Recently-produced ultracold molecules add capabilities to the ultracold toolbox that are beyond those available to atoms. I will discuss how joint experiment-theory work has harnessed these new capabilities to experimentally realize interacting spin models, and how measuring their far-from-equilibrium dynamics has led us to develop new theoretical methods.
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