Dear all

Please be informed about the following QSIT Seminar.

With best regards,
Sandra Künzel

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Date: Monday July 25, 2011
Time: 11:00
Place: ETH Science City, HPF G 6
Host: Jonathan Home

Coherent destruction of tunneling and synthetic gauge fields in trapped ions
Diego Porras
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

In this talk, we will review a few ideas on how to use the vibrational modes of trapped ions to simulate the physics of interacting bosons. In particular, we can show that by using periodic drivings of the trapping frequencies, a variety of interesting phenomena from Condensed Matter physics may be observed, such as analogs of the Quantum Hall effect, and analogs of electron tunneling under periodic drivings.