Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices: Simulating quantum many-body systems

This Title Explores The Physics Of Atoms Frozen To Ultralow Temperatures And Trapped In Periodic Light Structures. It Introduces The Reader To The Spectacular Progress Achieved On The Field Of Ultracold Gases And Describes Present And Future Challenges In Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Physics, And Quantum Computation. 1. Introduction -- 2. Statistical Physics Of Condensed Matter: Basic Concepts -- 3. Ultracold Gases In Optical Lattices: Basic Concepts -- 4. Quantum Simulators Of Condensed Matter -- 5. Bose-hubbard Models: Methods Of Treatment -- 6. Fermi And Fermi-bose Hubbard Models: Methods Of Treatment -- 7. Ultracold Spinor Atomic Gases -- 8. Ultracold Dipolar Gases -- 9. Disordered Ultracold Atomic Gases -- 10. Frustrated Ultracold Atom Systems -- 11. Ultracold Atomic Gases In 'artificial' Gauge Fields -- 12. Many-body Physics From A Quantum Information Perspective -- 13. Quantum Information With Lattice Gases -- 14. Detection Of Quantum Systems Realized With Ultracold Atoms -- 15. Perspectives: Beyond Standard Optical Lattices. Maciej Lewenstein, Anna Sanpera And Verònica Ahufiniger. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [439]-470) And Index.