Speaker: Dr. Mao-Xin Liu, Beijing Computational Science Research Center

Abstract: The Rabi model describes a two-level system interacting with a single-mode bosonic field. It plays a fundamental role in quantum optics, quantum information, and condensed matter physics. Although it has been intensively explored, only in recent years has the integrability of this model been formulated. However, this analytic achievement is not the end of the study on this model. A more efficient and succinct approximation is still in pursuing. This talk will introduce a variational method, which works better than some of the previous approximations, to evaluate the ground-state properties of the Rabi model.

Date&Time: June 13, 2014 (Friday), 14:30–15:30
Location: 606 Conference Room