Alfonso Vázquez Ramallo

Artificial Quantum Matter

Titor: Alfonso Vázquez Ramallo

Supervisor: Alfonso Vázquez Ramallo

The experimental advances in atomic physics and quantum optics have opened many possibilities to explore new phases of matter and, interestingly, to create states of matter that do not exist in Nature. Among these systems, let us mention those with artificial gauge fields and synthetic dimensions, as well as those that are in a topological phase induced by external periodic perturbations. In this stay the student will make contact with these topics that are not covered in the standard undergraduate courses. In particular, he/she will study the so-called Floquet systems, in which a periodic driving can induce and suppress couplings in the original Hamiltonian, giving rise to new physical phenomena.