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“Topological Quantum
Matter and Entanglement”
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Monday, 15. May 2017 |
Video-Recording for any system with MP4-support
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15:15 – 16:30 |
Duncan Haldane
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Abstract :
Long-range
"entanglement" was initially pointed out by Einstein as a strange
property
predicted by
quantum mechanics that he felt was so contrary to common-sense that
experiments to test
it would surely undermine the quantum theory. But when experimental
tests eventually
became possible, quantum mechanics was vindicated. In recent years,
it has been
realized that, instead of merely being an abstract and obscure philosophical
issue in the
interpretation of the quantum theory, entanglement is in fact perhaps its
central feature,
and in particular, plays an important role in the new "topological
(quantum)
states of
matter" which have unexpected properties that have given rise to much
recent
excitement in
condensed matter physics. I will describe some examples of this and how
ideas from
quantum information theory and condensed matter physics have fruitfully
joined together.
The future
colloquium program can be found at:
http://agenda.albanova.se/categoryDisplay.py?categId=301