Graduate Student Seminar | Richard Lopp, Seminar 2: The Multipolar Hamiltonian and Quantum Delocalization

Zoom: please contact amgrad@uwaterloo for the meeting link

Speaker

Richard Lopp | University of Waterloo

Title

Seminar 2:  The Multipolar Hamiltonian and Quantum Delocalization

Please note: this is apart of the seminar series, Light and Atoms. Seminar 3 will follow on April 21st.

Abstract

We will derive the multipolar Hamiltonian and study the influence of quantum delocalization and atomic motion. We will analyze in what regimes different degrees of approximation of light-matter interactions in quantum optics and relativistic quantum information are reasonable and in what cases they need to be refined to capture the features of the light-matter interaction. This is particularly important when considering the quantum nature of the atomic center of mass.