ERC Consolidator Grant · 2016
The biggest challenge to using ultracold fermionic atoms to simulate strongly correlated phases is cooling the system to sufficiently low temperatures. The aim of QuStA is to tackle this challenge with a novel bottom-up approach and assemble many-body systems from individually prepared building blocks. This vision has come within reach through recent breakthroughs in our group in preparing and manipulating few-atom systems with unprecedented fidelity. Building on this experience, we will prepare multiple such few-atom systems and develop strategies to merge them adiabatically to form a many-body system. Initially, we will focus on studying the physics of the Hubbard model, which is…
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