Computational physics and condensed matter physics. Strongly correlated many-body systems, phase transitions, ultracold atoms and polar molecules, superfluidity, development of quantum Monte Carlo algorithms.
My research is focused on many body states of matter in ultracold atomic and molecular lattice systems. Lattice systems can be realized by loading atoms or molecules into an optical lattice, i.e. a periodic array of potential wells. Such systems are highly controllable and tunable experimentally, therefore providing an excellent opportunity to test theory against experiments. At cold enough temperatures, various exotic phases can be realized in more complex systems, e.g. multi-component or dipolar ones. Often times such phases require experimentally challenging low temperatures and strong interactions. Accurate theories, capable to predict which phases and under which conditions they can be stabilized, are therefore needed.
