The phenomenon of quantum condensation results from the application of quantum mechanics to many-particle systems, or of quantum statistics. Quantum condensation occurs in degenerate systems of bosons (liquid He-4) and in degenerate systems of fermions as Cooper pairs (liquid He-3 or superconductors). In the 1990s, new areas of quantum condensation emerged when diluted systems of atomic gases were cooled down to the nano-Kelvin temperature range. More exotic examples, such as condensates of composite bosons or paired composite fermions, exist in fractional quantum Hall liquids in two-dimensional electron systems, which support fractional statistics and, perhaps, even more exotic non-Abelian statistics. There will be three focus areas in "QC11"; 1) Topological Insulators and Topological Order; 2) Cold Atom physics, and 3) Issues in Strongly Correlated Electrons.
The workshop is supported by HKUCG through grant HKUST3/CRF/09.
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