The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and Supersolidity

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• Prof. Tilman Esslinger, ETH, Zurich
• Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:00-17:00
• Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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It is an almost magic toolbox, which has been created around quantum gas experiments. This toolbox includes bosons, fermions, weak and strong interactions, low-dimensional systems, optical lattices and more. Yet, the observed physics has been governed by short ranged interactions between the particles. In this talk, I will report on an experiment in which we have succeeded in creating a quantum gas with infinitely long-ranged interactions. The interactions are mediated by an optical cavity. We observe a phase transition from a superfluid into a self-organized state with a broken spatial symmetry, which can be regarded as a supersolid phase. This observation is a realization of the Dicke quantum phase transition which has been predicted more than 30 years ago, but has never been realized in an experiment.

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