Quantum simulation of many-body problems
We are an experimental atomic physics group and trying to find a new state of quantum matter. By cooling down the atomic vapor to the nano-Kelvin regime, the ultra-cold atoms can display many-body quantum phenomena such as superconductivity and quantum magnetism. The system can tune various physical parameters like dimensions, impurity, and interaction strength in a wide range of parameter space. Moreover, a high-resolution imaging technique in optical lattices can address a many-body quantum state at a single atom level, simulating difficult many-body quantum problems in a wide range of physics from condensed matter physics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum information science and even high energy physics.
“Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.”
by Richard. Feynman