Subject：Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in lattices.Bloch oscillations, dynamical localization, and solitons.
Speaker：Prof. V. V. Konotop
Emcee：Prof. Guoxiang Huang
Time：3:00pm, 18th Dec, 2018
Place：Science Building A814
Abstract：
An overview of recent results on dynamics of cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit coupling in presence of periodically varying external fields will be presented. There will be addressed such phenomena as Bloch oscillations, dynamical localization, gap solitons, multipoles, and half-vortex solitons in optical and Zeeman lattices. There will be also described peculiarities of soliton dynamics in periodically varying gauge potentials.
About the Speaker:
Vladimir V. Konotop received the M.S. degree in physics from the University of Kharkov, Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1982. He received the Ph.D. (1986) degree in condensed matter physics from Kharkov Polytechnical Institute (Ukraine). Then he became a research fellow and later a senior research fellow at Kharkov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics (Ukraine). In January 1993 he became an Associate Professor of the University of Madeira (Portugal). In October 1999 he moved to the University of Lisbon (Portugal) where he is a Professor at the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences. His research interests include nonlinear wave phenomena in optics, in Bose-Einstein condensates, and discrete systems.
