Speaker: Jordi Mur-Petit
Affiliation: IFF-CSIC
Date: Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 10:30
Location: Seminar Room, Serrano 113b
Recent successes in the creation of ground-state, ultra-cold heteronuclear molecules have triggered a growing interest in these systems, leading in particular to theoretical proposals to use them for quantum information processing. In this context, and motivated by the experimental progress in the creation of novel optical lattices, we are studying the controlled formation of cold molecules in these systems, with an emphasis in their potential application to build strongly-correlated many-body states. I this talk I will review some of these theoretical proposals, and discuss our progress in the study of using long-range interactions to build a phase gate between atoms confined in separate traps, and to cool ions with a nearby Bose-Einstein condensate.