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Tue April 5, 2011 4:00 pm

Probing Supersolidity and Spin Fluctuations in Quantum Gases

Location:Jefferson-356

A Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to an optical cavity shows the Dicke quantum phase transition in an open system. The superradiant phase emerges from a broken symmetry and has the character of a supersolid. I will report on experiments characterizing the supersolid phase and investigating the soft mode when approaching the phase transition. I will further report on a novel scheme to highly locally probe spin fluctuations in a two-component Fermi gas.

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