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SUMMARY:Quantum electrodynamics without photons
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Vladimir Manucharyan\, Superconductor Quantum Informatio
 n Laboratory\, EPFL\nDecay of a particle into more particles is a common m
 anifestation of interactions\, be it a Higgs boson at LHC or a Fermi-liqui
 d quasiparticle (quasi-electron) in metals at low temperatures. In a lossl
 ess but non-linear electromagnetic medium\, even a single photon would eve
 ntually decay by down-converting into two or more lower-frequency photons.
  Can we still define the notion of a photon when its interaction-induced l
 ifetime becomes too short to even observe it? In this lecture we will show
  how advances in superconducting qubit technology enable experiments with 
 such an extreme quantum electrodynamics scenario\, at least in 1+1 dimens
 ions.\n\nBio\nVladimir Manucharyan was born in Baku (USSR) in 1983. He obt
 ained B.S. degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Ph
 .D. from Yale University. In 2010 he was elected into the Society of Fell
 ows of Harvard University as a Junior Fellow. In 2014 he started his own 
 laboratory at the University of Maryland and moved to EPFL in 2022. Vladi
 mir's research interests are mainly in the area of quantum computing with
  superconducting devices. 
LOCATION:CE 1 2 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CE%201%202 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/65840401506
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