The Third International Conference: Nonlinear Waves--Theory and Applications

 MINISYMPOSIA

Quantum Degenerate Systems
Organizers:
Joachim Brand   (Massey University, New Zealand)
Lincoln Carr   (Colorado School of Mines, U. S. A.)
 
Nonlinear waves are ubiquitous phenomena for ultra-cold gases in the regime of quantum degeneracy, in particular Bose-Einstein condensates, where internal friction is suppressed or absent. Recent years have seen progress in the experimental study of nonlinear wave processes but have also diversified the field of quantum degenerate gases to include novel symmetries, trapping geometries, and artificial gauge potentials. The physical structure of the underlying quantum system becomes important for strongly correlated gases, e.g. in low dimensions, where mean-field theory fails. Interesting connections to nonequilibrium phase transitions are realised where nonlinear wave dynamics is relevant for defect formation and decay. This minisymposium will provide a broad perspective on quantum degenerate systems and highlight recent developments of the field.
 
List of Speakers:
 
1) Allan Adams   ( MIT, U. S. A. )
   "Holography and Turbulence"
 
2) Grigory Astrakharchik   ( Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain )
   "Lieb's soliton-like excitations in harmonic trap"
 
3) Ashton Bradley   ( University of Otago, New Zealand )
   "Inverse energy cascade in two-dimensional quantum vortex turbulence"
 
4) Joachim Brand   ( Massey University, New Zealand)
   "Dark solitons in super uid Fermi gases: Dispersion relation and snaking instability"
 
5) Qing-Yu Cai   ( CAS Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, China)
   "Towards experimentally testing the paradox of black hole information loss"
 
6) Lincoln Carr   ( Colorado School of Mines, U. S. A. )
   "Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Bose-Einstein Condensates"
 
7) Matthew Davis   ( University of Queensland, Australia )
   "Nonequilibrium superfluidity and internal convection in finite temperature Bose gases"
 
8) Hao Duan   ( Tsinghua University, China )
   "Ultracold collision in the presence of synthetic spin-orbit coupling"
 
9) Paul Dyke   ( Rice University, U. S. A. )
   " Interactions of Bright Matter-Wave Solitons with a Potential Defect"
 
10) Sergej Flach  ( Massey University, New Zealand )
   " Correlated metallic few-particle bound states in quasiperiodic potentials "
 
11) Mark Fromhold   ( University of Nottingham, U. K. )
   "Nonlinear wave dynamics of cold quantum matter near atom chips"
 
12) Shih-Chuan Gou   ( National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, China )
   "Kibble-Zurek scaling and its breakdown for spontaneous generation of Josephson vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates"
 
13) Laith Haddad   ( Colorado School of Mines, U. S. A. )
   "Solitons in Armchair and Zigzag Geometries in the Nonlinear Dirac Equation"
 
14) Bruno Juliá-Díaz   ( University of Barcelona, Spain )
   "Fractional quantum Hall phases of two-component ultracold bosonic gases"
 
15) Wu-Ming Liu   ( CAS Institute of Physics, China )
   "Controlling phase separation of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate by confinement"
 
16) Patrick Öhberg   ( Heriot-Watt University, U. K. )
   "The Bose gas as a simulator of interacting gauge theories"
 
17) Francesco Piazza   ( Technical University of Munich, Germany )
   "Critical Velocity and Current-Phase Relation of Dilute Ultracold Bosonic Atoms"
 
18) Ariel Sommer   ( MIT and University of Chicago, U. S. A. )
   "Heavy solitons in a fermionic superfluid"
 
19) Yi Su   ( CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics, China )
   "Macroscopically superposed ground states of a dipolar Bose gas in a double-well potential"
 
20) Biao Wu   ( Peking University, China )
   "Bright Solitons in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates"
 
21) Hui Zhai   ( Tsinghua University, China )
   "Dynamics of Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Gases"
 
22) Uli Zuelicke   ( Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand )
   "Low-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled BECs: Inspirations from semiconductor spintronics"
 
 
 
 
 
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