Lead participant: ICFO
Objectives: Simulate the basic properties of topological insulators (topological phase diagram, edge states), and supersolids (superfluidity, crystalline order). At a later stage, explore their more complex properties in the presence of disorder and interactions, using the results and tools of WP1-2. Design strategies for quantum simulations of other exotic phases of matter. An overall goal is benchmarking the robustness of the edge-states conduction in topological insulators to disorder and perturbations.
Tasks:
- Topological insulators in hexagonal lattices: the Haldane model
- Topological/normal heterostructures: edge states
- Superstripes in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
- Towards Majorana fermions and spin glasses
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