From Lattice QCD to graphene and ultracold atoms

Who: Timo Lähde (University of Helsinki)
When: Monday, December 12, 2011 at 14:15
Where: FKF’s colloquia room
During the past 30 years, algorithmic progress in Lattice Monte Carlo has contributed greatly to our understanding of QCD in the strongly interacting regime from first principles, and developed into the field of study known as Lattice QCD. I will describe two examples where such methods, in particular the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm, can be advantageously applied to condensed matter and atomic physics, namely graphene and the unitary Fermi gas.