Exotic Phases of Ultracold Gases
Abstract
We carried out research in all the proposed topics as well as related frontiers during grant support. The supported research has resulted in 26 published articles, including 2 in Nature Physics, 7 in PRL, 2 in Nature Communications, and 26 invited talks in major conferences by the PI and postdocs. A notable success is the project of optical lattice orbital physics, which has gained considerable attention in recent years. PIs contribution includes having published one of the earliest theoretical papers that started this field. Throughout the support period, the PIs team remains a world leading group of this field, as evidenced by the invited talks and review articles. The supported research, while being theoretical, have had direct impact on experimental directions. The theoretical research of p-orbital bosons on the optical lattices has led to the new experimental setups by the worlds most eminent experimental groups such as I. Bloch and A. Hemmerich. Our prediction of chiral px + ipy Bose-Einstein condensate was tested and confirmed by experiments [A. Hemmerich et al, Nature Physics, 2011; Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015; etc.]. New orbital fermion experiments, directly based on our prediction, are underway by Hulet group at Rice.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 30, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1055356
Entities
People
- W. V. Liu
Organizations
- University of Pittsburgh