Project description
Chilling out gets really exciting in the quantum world
Since superconductivity was discovered in 1911, the mysteries that might be revealed by cooling atoms to very low temperatures have fascinated the scientific community. We can now cool atoms extremely close to absolute zero, where they fall into the lowest quantum state – with very interesting consequences. While experimental and computational science has advanced our understanding of the ultracooled quantum world tremendously in the last decades, we have only touched the tip of the iceberg. Strong interactions among multiple particles are usually very hard to control and study. The EU-funded TORYD project is exploiting ultracold Rydberg atoms (highly excited atoms with outer electrons very far from the nucleus, mediating very strong interactions) to explore new quantum phases of matter.
Objective
Understanding and controlling quantum matter is a key challenge for basic research and for the development of applications. The richness of quantum physics is notoriously difficult to handle for strong interactions, usually leading to massive entanglement between particles, especially when it is associated with a nontrivial topology of the Hamiltonian. The realization of well-controlled experiments probing strongly correlated quantum matter is thus a major objective to explore these perspectives. In this project, I will investigate many-body states of quantum matter in- and out-of-equilibrium. I will study the interplay between topology and interactions in tailored model systems and explore new quantum phases of matter. I will focus on two main objectives: (i) The study of dynamical properties of strongly interacting 1D Bose gases using quantum transport experiments. (ii) The realization of fractional Chern insulator states in topological lattices. These objectives will be achieved thanks to ultracold gases of Rydberg atoms, where the excellent control of quantum gases is extended thanks to the strong interactions between Rydberg particles.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant
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75006 Paris
France
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