1202.1605 (Y. Meurice)

QCD calculations with optical lattices?    [PDF]

Y. Meurice

By trapping cold polarizable atoms in periodic potentials created by crossed
laser beams, it is now possible to experimentally create "clean" lattice
systems. Experimentalists have successfully engineered local and
nearest-neighbor interactions that approximately recreate Hubbard-like models
on table tops. I discuss the possibility of using this new technology in the
context of lattice gauge theory and in particular, relativistic dispersion
relations, flavor symmetry, functional derivatives and emerging local gauge
symmetry.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1605