Description
In this course, I will introduce non-specialists to the field of cold atoms. After a short overview over cooling techniques, I will introduce the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation and some milestone results obtained with them. Then we will turn to the field of Fermi gases, talking about the unique possibilities to tune the interactions. This tuneability enables the quantum simulation of strongly correlated superfluidity in the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluidity to the Bose-Einstein condensation of pairs. Finally we will study the physics of ultracold bosons and fermions in periodic potentials.
