Purdue University

Department of Physics
Condensed Matter Seminar

Learning about order from noise

Friday November 20, 2009

Refreshments will be served at 3:00 PM Room 298 PHYS

Eugene Demler

Harvard University

The probabilistic character of measurement processes is one of the most fascinating aspects of quantum mechanics. In many-body systems quantum noise can reveal the non-local correlations and multiparticle entanglement in the underlying states. In this talk I will review recent theoretical and experimental progress in applications of the quantum noise analysis to the study of many body states of ultracold atoms in optical lattices and fluctuating low dimensional condensates.