Reference materials

These are a few references which should introduce you to the field of quantum simulation with ultracold neutral atoms.

General reviews on quantum simulation (all labs)

A. J. Daley, I. Bloch, C. Kokail, S. Flannigan, N. Pearson, M. Troyer, and P. Zoller, Practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation,
Nature 607, 667-676 (2022)

I. Bloch, J. Dalibard and S. Nascimbène, Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases,
Nature Physics 8, 267–276 (2012).

I. Bloch, J. Dalibard and W. Zwerger, Many-body physics with ultracold gases,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 885–964 (2008), arxiv:cond-mat/0704.3011

Review papers on quantum droplets, supersolids and spin-orbit coupled quantum gases (potassium lab)

F. Böttcher, J.-N. Schmidt, J. Hertkorn, K. S. H. Ng, S. D. Graham, M. Guo, T. Langen, and T. Pfau,
New states of matter with fine-tuned interactions: quantum droplets and dipolar supersolids, Rep. Prog. Phys. 84 012403 (2021), arXiv:2007.06391

D. S. Petrov, Liquid beyond the van der Waals paradigm, Nat. Phys. 14, 211 (2018)

I. Ferrier-Barbut, Ultradilute Quantum Droplets, Physics Today 72, 4, 46 (2019)

H. Zhai, Degenerate Quantum Gases with Spin-Orbit Coupling, Rep. Prog. Phys. 78, 026001 (2015), arXiv:1403.8021

V. Galitski and I. B. Spielman, Spin-orbit coupling in quantum gases, Nature 494, 49 (2013), arXiv:1312.3292v1

Review papers on quantum simulation with ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices (strontium lab)

L. Tarruell and L. Sanchez-Palencia, Quantum simulation of the Hubbard model with ultracold fermions in optical lattices,
C. R. Physique 19, 365 (2018)

C. Gross and I. Bloch, Quantum simulations with ultracold atoms in optical lattices,
Science 357, 6335 (2017).

T. Esslinger, Fermi–Hubbard physics with atoms in an optical lattice,
Annu. Rev. Condens. Mater. Phys. 1, 129–152 (2010), arxiv:cond-mat/1007.0012

M. Lewenstein et al., Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices: Mimicking condensed matter physics and beyond,
Adv. Phys. 56, 243–379 (2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0606771

A. Georges, Condensed Matter Physics With Light And Atoms: Strongly Correlated Cold Fermions in Optical Lattices, Proceedings of the International School on Physics Enrico Fermi 2006, Ultracold Fermi Gases (eds. M. Inguscio, W. Ketterle and C. Salomon) 477-510 (IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0702122

Review papers on Rydberg atom arrays (Rydberg lab)

Some good lecture notes on ultracold atoms

Claude Cohen Tannoudji’s lectures at Collège de France (lecture notes in french)

Jean Dalibard’s lectures at Collège de France and at ENS (lecture notes and videos of the lectures in french)

General review articles on BEC and Fermi gases

F. Dalfovo, S. Giorgini, L. P. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari, Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 463 (1999), arXiv:cond-mat/9806038

S. Giorgini, L. P. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari, Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1215 (2008), arXiv:cond-mat/0706.3360

Experimental techniques for ultracold quantum gases and optical lattices

C. Gross and W. S. Bakr, Quantum gas microscopy for single atom and spin detection, Nature Physics 17, 1316 (2021).

C. Weitenberg and J. Simonet, Tailoring quantum gases by Floquet engineering,  Nature Physics 17, 1342 (2021).

W. Ketterle, D. S. Durfee, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn, Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates,
Proceedings of the International School on Physics Enrico Fermi 1998, Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases (eds. M. Inguscio, S. Stringari and C. E. Wieman) 67-176 (IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1999), arXiv:cond-mat/9904034

W. Ketterle and M. Zwierlein, Making, probing and understanding ultracold Fermi gases,
Proceedings of the International School on Physics Enrico Fermi 2006, Ultracold Fermi Gases (eds. M. Inguscio, W. Ketterle and C. Salomon) 95-288 (IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0801.2500