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This College de France lecture, organized by the FRAMA Physics Federation, will be held over three weeks. It will welcome the physicist Jean Dalibard, researcher at the Kastler Brossel laboratory, professor at the College de France and member of the academy of sciences.
Summary
Laser cooling and manipulation of atoms has made specular progress over the past 20 years. We are now able to produce in a lab a new quantum matter, evolving within “potential landscapes” that are controllable and range from plain harmonic traps to three-dimensional periodic networks.
This ultra-cold matter – in the microkelvin range and below – allows researchers to simulate macroscopic quantum phenomena observed in other circumstances, such as superfluidity of liquid helium, superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect. It also paves the way to new situations that impact metrology, with Bloch oscillations, as well as N-body physics, with the Mott transition between a conducting state and an insulating state.
This series of lectures will address some of the key advances of cold atom physics; it will look at the most telling experiences and the theoretical framework that tie it to other fields of statistical physics and condensed matter.
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