Quantum Correlated Phases of Matter in Optical Lattices with High-Q Cavities

Santiago Caballero (UNAM)

ABSTRACT: 

I will present how one arrives to effective interacting many-body quantum systems with cavity induced interactions. I will discuss the notion of quantum optical lattices, light induced matter modes and also interplay with internal degrees of freedom (spin). I will discuss some properties of these models and present results related to the emergence of phases of matter where strong quantum correlations are relevant for the formation of different kinds of order in the system.

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BIO:

I am Mexican, originally from Mexico City. I did my undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics at ITESM (Tec de Monterrey)[2001] in Monterrey, Mexico. Afterwards, I did a Master’s degree in Quantum Physics at KTH in Stockholm [2005]. I did my PhD. in Physics in the Australian National University [2011] during this time I was a visiting student in the MPIPKS in Dresden [2007-2008]. After my studies, I did my first postdoc in the Instituto de Física at UNAM in Mexico City [2011-2013] and my second postdoc was in the Atomic and Laser Physics department in the University of Oxford, UK [2013-2016]. Afterwards, I was a Young Researcher Chair in the Cátedras CONACYT program at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica (INAOE) in Monterrey, Mexico[2016-2017]. Finally, since 2017, I became Associated Researcher (Tenure-track) in the Instituto de Física at UNAM in México City, Mexico. I love cooking, coffee and strategy games.