EXOTIC PHASES OF QUANTUM MATTER

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EXOTIC PHASES OF QUANTUM MATTER
Group
Research
Nikolay Prokofiev Boris Svistunov Postdocs Kris
Van Houcke Evgeny Kozik (shared with ETH,
Zurich) Felix Werner (starting 09/08) Students B
arbara Capogrosso-Sansone Gunes Soyler
Gambling most of the time!
- Monte Carlo simulations - Strongly
correlated states of Bosons Fermions -
Critical phenomena - superfluidity, vortex
dynamics - mechanisms of decoherence
Systems
Collaborations
Ultra-cold gases Helium Spin lattices Polarons Qua
ntum dots Statistical models Atom tunneling .
CSI CUNY ETH, Zurich UBC, Vancouver, Canada U.
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada U. Trento, Italy U.
Innsbuck, Austria Station Q, Microsoft Harvard MIT
http//montecarlo.csi.cuny.edu
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SUPERSOLID HE
Grain boundary superfluidity in the experimental
setup by Sasaki et al. 06
Dissipationless mass flow through the crystal
bulk
Grain boundaries in helium solid are superfluid!
Computers perception of this problem
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COLD ATOMS
DESIGNED QUANTUM MATTER NEUTRON STAR IN THE
LABORATORY
T down to 100 nK
Neutron star normal-superfluid transition
temperature
Computers perception of this problem
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Luttinger liquid in the core of screw dislocation
in He-4 hcp crystal
PRL, 99, 035301 (2007).
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Breaking News
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for sign alternating
diagrammatic series The sign problem is not
fatal any longer ! (?)
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