Mini-Workshop on the Exactly Solvable Models and Their Applications in Cold Atomic Systems

Announcement

Organized by

Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Supported by

Lee Hysan Foundation

Invited Speakers

Murray T. Batchler (Australian National University, Australia)

Jose M. P. Carmelo (University of Minho, Portugal)

Miguel A. Cazalilla (D.I.P.C., Spain)

Mo-Lin Ge (Nankai University, China)

Henrik Johannesson (Goteborgs University, Sweden)

Vladimir Korepin (State University of New York, USA)

You-Quan Li (Zhejiang University, China)

Jiu-Qing Liang (Shanxi University, China)

Pedro D. Sacramento (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)

Paul B. Wiegmann (University of Chicago, USA)

Workshop Coordinators

Jose M. P. Carmelo (University of Minho)

Shi-Jian Gu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Hai-Qing Lin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Wu-Ming Liu (Institute of Physics, CAS)

Backgrounds:

The recent advances in cooling and trapping of atomic gases have opened fascinating experimental possibilities to realize low-dimensional systems with tunable strength of the interaction. For example, by changing the trap intensity and hence the atomic interaction strength, the crossover from a Bose-Einstein condensate to a Tonks-Girardeau gas has been observed. Moreover, the strongly interacting Fermi gas created in a one-dimensional optical lattice has been proved to be a realization of a tunable Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. Other systems, line the degenerate Fermi gas interacting with contact interaction, which is firstly solved by Prof. C. N. Yang, could be also realized by cold atoms. These experimental progresses renew the interest in integrable systems since such toy models introduced long ago have now an opportunity to be realized.

Objectives:

To survey and address various issues on exactly solvable models and their applications to recent experiments on cold-atom systems; and to strengthen cooperation for people working in related fields.

Program:

The workshop will consist of about two and half days of invited presentations, and a half day discussion/excursion.

Language: English

Venue: Lecture Theatre L2, Science Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

Enquiries:

Miss P. Y. Ho, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2609 6339
Fax: (852) 2603 5204
E-mail: pyho@phy.cuhk.edu.hk