Scientific program
school - 1st to 4th July: including lectures, Shannon Whitlock's Journal Club (covering topics of the workshop) and the YEA-project of the COHERENCE network's students
midterm review - 5th July
workshop - 8th to 12th July
| Monday, 1st July | |
| 07:30 - 08:50 | Registration |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Opening: Frédéric Merkt (ETH Zürich) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Tim Softley (University of Oxford) |
| Rydberg-surface interactions | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Sebastian Wüster (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Flexible Rydberg aggregates | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Tim Softley (University of Oxford) |
| Rydberg-surface interactions | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | COHERENCE-Dresden Long Night of Sciences: Project Presentation |
| 15:10 - 15:15 | Welcome: Adrian Sanz Mora & Wildan Abdussalam, the scientific coordinators of the YEA project |
| chairman: Adrian Sanz Mora | |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Danila Khikhlukha (Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Kinetic study of ultracold neutral plasma | |
| 15:35 - 15:55 | Anita Gaj (Universität Stuttgart) |
| Single Rydberg impurities in a Bose-Einstein-Condensate | |
| 15:55 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | cryp13 colloquium (chairman: Thomas Pohl, mpipks) |
| Ed Grant (University of British Columbia) | |
| Penning lattice: Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma | |
| 18:15 - 20:00 | supper |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | poster session |
| Tuesday, 2nd July | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Sebastian Wüster (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Flexible Rydberg aggregates | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Shannon Whitlock's Journal Club: Rydberg polaritons and atom light interactions |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Stephen Hogan (University College London) |
| Rydberg atom and molecule optics | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | COHERENCE-Dresden Long Night of Sciences: Project Development |
| chairwoman: Anita Gaj | |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Henning Labuhn (Institut d'Optique) |
| Direct measurement of the Van der Waals interaction between two single atoms using Rydberg blockade | |
| 15:35 - 15:55 | Julian Naber (University of Amsterdam) |
| Quantum information in magnetic microtraps | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| chairmen: Heiner Sassmannshausen & Adrian Sanz Mora | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Elizabeth Bridge (Durham University) |
| Rydberg blockade in strontium via narrow intercombination lines | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Wildan Abdussalam (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Crystalline structures in two-dimensional Rydberg lattice gases | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Mike Kohlhoff (University of Oxford) |
| Velocity dependence of the interaction of Rydberg H atoms with a metal surface - Towards Rydberg-Stark deceleration | |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Guang Wu (Universität Hamburg) |
| Excitation properties of Rydberg atoms in one dimensional lattices | |
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Vladislav Gavryusev (Universität Heidelberg) |
| Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms in dense atomic gases | |
| 18:10 - 20:00 | supper |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | poster session |
| Wednesday, 3rd July | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique) |
| Entanglement and Rydberg interaction | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Shannon Whitlock's Journal Club: Coupling Rydberg atoms with surfaces |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Howard Potter (Photonics Technologies Ltd) |
| The joys of taking a simple idea commercial | |
| 12:15 - 14:30 | lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | COHERENCE-Dresden Long Night of Sciences: Project Development |
| chairwoman: Anita Gaj | |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Maria Martinez Valado (University of Pisa) |
| Multimode distributions in the full counting statistics of a strongly interacting Rydberg gas | |
| 15:35 - 15:55 | Heiner Sassmannshausen (ETH Zürich) |
| Spectroscopy of ultracold Rydberg atoms in the interacting and non-interacting regime | |
| 15:55 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| chairmen: Heiner Sassmannshausen & Wildan Abdussalam | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Markus Kurz (Universität Hamburg) |
| Electrically dressed ultralong-range polar Rydberg molecules | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Marco Mattioli (Universität Innsbruck) |
| Cluster Luttinger liquids of Rydberg-dressed gases in optical lattices | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Hannes Busche (Durham University) |
| Microwave-controlled interactions between optical photons stored as Rydberg polaritons | |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Adrian Sanz Mora (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Interfacing optomechanics with Rydberg atoms | |
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Riccardo Faoro (CNRS) |
| Observation of a four body resonance in cold cesium Rydberg atoms | |
| 18:10 - 18:20 | closure of the YEA project |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | supper |
| Thursday, 4th July | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Stephen Hogan (University College London) |
| Rydberg atom and molecule optics | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Shannon Whitlock's Journal Club: Rydberg molecules |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique) |
| Entanglement and Rydberg interaction | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch break |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | supper |
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midterm review & Long Night of Sciences - 5th July
| Friday, 5th July | |
| 08:30 - 18:00 | midterm review (for ITN members only) - in seminar room 4 |
| 18:00 - 01:00 | presenting the project at the Long Night of Sciences |
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| Sunday, 7th July | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Registration - in guest house no. 4 |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome - in guest house no. 4 |
| Monday, 8th July | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening: Jan-Michael Rost, Managing Director of the mpipks |
| chairman: Igor Lesanovsky | |
| Quantum information and entanglement I | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University) |
| Strongly interacting atoms and photons | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin) |
| Quantum computation with a 2D array of trapped Rydberg atoms | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | coffee break |
| Rydberg interfaces and mechanical control I | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Mark Ford (Oxford University) |
| Surface induced ionisation dynamics of excited H atoms | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | József Fortágh (Universität Tübingen) |
| Interfacing cold atoms and superconductors | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Robert Spreeuw (University of Amsterdam) |
| Rydberg atoms and lattices of magnetic micro traps | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | lunch break - in the institute's main building |
| chairman: Peter Schmelcher | |
| Many-body physics - Quantum gases I | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Jonathan Balewski (Universität Stuttgart) |
| Coupling a single Rydberg electron and a Bose-Einstein condensate | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Fabio Cinti (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Defect-induced supersolidity with Rydberg atoms | |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | cryp13 colloquium |
| Matthias Weidemüller (Universität Heidelberg) | |
| Dressing photons with Rydberg atoms | |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | Guido Pupillo (Université de Strasbourg) |
| Anomalous Luttinger liquids of atoms with finite-range interactions | |
| 18:20 - 20:00 | supper - in guest house no. 4 |
| Tuesday, 9th July | |
| chairman: Matthew Jones | |
| Rydberg photonics I | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Alex Kuzmich (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Quantum optics with Rydberg atoms | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Alexey Gorshkov (California Institute of Technology) |
| Dissipative many-body quantum optics in Rydberg media | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | coffee break |
| Energy transport and charge transfer | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Luis Marcassa (Universidade de São Paulo) |
| Population transfer collisions in an optical dipole trap | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Sebastian Wüster (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Unfrozen superatoms: Break-up, collective motion and conical intersections | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Andreas Buchleitner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) |
| Optimal coherent control to counteract dissipation | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | lunch break - in the institute's main building |
| chairman: Tilman Pfau | |
| Rydberg interfaces and mechanical control II | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Frédéric Merkt (ETH Zürich) |
| Manipulating Rydberg atoms and molecules in the gas phase and near surfaces | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Georg Raithel (University of Michigan) |
| Rydberg atoms in optical and magnetic trapping fields | |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | coffee break |
| Few-body phenomena in exotic molecules I | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Dieter Jaksch (University of Oxford) |
| Magnetic monopoles and synthetic spin-orbit coupling in Rydberg macrodimers | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | Rosario González-Férez (Universidad de Granada) |
| Triatomic Rydberg molecules in external fields | |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | Hossein Sadeghpour (Harvard University) |
| Expecting the unexpected in long-range Rydberg molecules | |
| 18:20 - 20:00 | supper - in guest house no. 4 |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | poster session (focus on even poster numbers) |
| Wednesday, 10th July | |
| chairman: Jörg Evers | |
| Many-body physics - Lattices I | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Christian Gross (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) |
| Long range interacting many-body systems with Rydberg atoms | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Andreas Läuchli (Universität Innsbruck) |
| Floating, crystalline and paramagnetic phases in chains of interacting Rydberg atoms | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | group photo (to be published on the event's web page) & coffee break |
| Many-body physics - Frozen gases I | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Pierre Pillet (CNRS - Université Paris-Sud) |
| Two-, few- and many-body effects in a frozen Rydberg gas | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Michael Fleischhauer (Universität Kaiserslautern) |
| Steady-state correlations in Rydberg gases and Rydberg polaritons | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Igor Lesanovsky (University of Nottingham) |
| Dissipative interactions in Rydberg lattice gases | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | lunch break - in the institute's main building |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | guided tour through the exhibition Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich and Goya. A Shock to the Senses. |
| 19:30 - | conference dinner in the Carolaschlösschen |
| Thursday, 11th July | |
| chairman: Georg Raithel | |
| Many-body physics - Frozen gases II | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Thomas Gallagher (University of Virginia) |
| Microwave spectroscopy of the cold Rydberg gas | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Herwig Ott (Universität Kaiserslautern) |
| Millisecond dynamics of ultracold Rydberg gases | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | coffee break |
| Few-body phenomena in exotic molecules II | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | James Shaffer (The University of Oklahoma) |
| Ultracold Rydberg atom molecules and interactions | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Hendrik Weimer (Leibniz Universität Hannover) |
| Binding by dissipation | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Hans Peter Büchler (Universität Stuttgart) |
| Hybrid setup of polar molecules and Rydberg atoms | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | lunch break - in the institute's main building |
| chairman: Oliver Morsch | |
| Few-body phenomena in exotic molecules III | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Chris Greene (Purdue University) |
| Rydberg molecule spectra and dynamics | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Peter Schmelcher (Universität Hamburg) |
| Ultralong-range molecules in external fields | |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | coffee break |
| Rydberg photonics II | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Ofer Firstenberg (Harvard University) |
| Quantum nonlinear optics with Rydberg polaritons | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | Brian Kennedy (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Quantum optics in interacting Rydberg media | |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | Tilman Pfau (Universität Stuttgart) |
| Rydberg photonics in thermal vapor cells | |
| 18:20 - 20:00 | supper - in guest house no. 4 |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | poster session (focus on odd poster numbers) |
| Friday, 12th July | |
| chairman: Mark Saffman | |
| Two-electron Rydberg atoms | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Matthew Jones (Durham University) |
| Quantum optics with one and two electron Rydberg atoms | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Moritz Hiller (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) |
| Exciting and probing polarized strontium Rydberg atoms | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | coffee break |
| Quantum information and entanglement II | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Universität Mainz) |
| Rydberg interactions of cold trapped ions | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Antoine Browaeys (CNRS) |
| Direct measurement of the interaction between 2 Rydberg atoms | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Andrei Derevianko (University of Nevada) |
| Magic trapping of Rydberg atoms | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | lunch break - in the institute's main building |
| chairman: Alexey Gorshkov | |
| Many-body physics - Quantum gases II | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Wolfgang Lechner (Universität Innsbruck) |
| Non-equilibrium phases in dipolar crystals: Quantum-glass and defect dynamics | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Massimo Boninsegni (University of Alberta) |
| Supersolid phases of cold atom assemblies | |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | coffee break |
| Many-body physics - Lattices II | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Jörg Evers (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik) |
| "Self-assembly" and dissipative dynamics in strongly interacting Rydberg gases | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | Oliver Morsch (INO-CNR) |
| Full counting statistics and phase diagram of a dissipative Rydberg gas | |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | Tony Lee (Harvard University) |
| Unconventional magnetism in the dissipative XYZ model with Rydberg atoms | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | closing |
| 18:40 - 20:00 | supper - in guest house no. 4 |
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