Quantum Gases 2010: Synthetic Gauge Fields
Organizers:
Hui Zhai, Alexander Fetter and Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho
Organized by:
Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University
August 25 - 27, 2010
A charged quantum system often exhibits unusual phenomena when subjected to high magnetic fields. Well-known examples are the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects discovered in two-dimensional electron gases. Although atoms are neutral and do not couple to real electromagnetic fields, an effective gauge field can be created, for instance, by using atom-light interaction and Berry phase effect. This method can also be used to create a non-abelian external gauge potentials. This workshop will focus on recent theory and experimental advances in studying ultracold atoms in abelian and non-abelian gauge fields
Invited Speakers:
- Ian Spielman (NIST)
- Gordon Baym (UIUC)
- Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT)
- Kenneth Günter (ENS)
- Julius Ruseckas (Vilnius)
- Mehmet Oktel (Bilkent)
- C. Morais Smith (Utrecht)
- Erich Mueller (Cornell)
- Nigel Cooper (Cambridge)
- Congjun Wu (UCSD)
This conference is a series of biannual conferences on ultracold atomic gases held at Tsinghua University since 2010, interrupted by the pandemic in 2020 and 2022. The information on the previous conferences is listed below.