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SUMMARY:Leveraging local symmetry breaking to engineering novel materials 
 properties - LACUS & IMX seminar
DTSTART:20200310T131500
DTEND:20200310T140000
DTSTAMP:20260610T054650Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Alessandra Lanzara\nPhysics Department\, University Cali
 fornia\, Berkeley\nMaterials Sciences Division\, Lawrence Berkeley Nationa
 l Laboratory\, Berkeley  \nThe 20th century has been dominated by the re
 alization that symmetry and symmetry breaking influence the forces that go
 vern our universe and are keys to much of the novel phenomena observed in 
 physics today.   Recently it has been realized that\, even if the global
  symmetry of the system is retained\, a local symmetry breaking can still 
 drive a variety of novel fascinating behaviors.  In this talk I will pres
 ent the effect that local breaking of inversion\, translational and rotati
 onal symmetry can have in defining fundamental properties of matter from t
 opological phases to superconductivity and how it can be used as a tuning 
 parameter to control novel properties in van der Waals heterostructures. 
 \n\nTo stream Dr. Lanzara’s talk via Zoom\; the link for it will be http
 s://epfl.zoom.us/j/866356691
LOCATION:BM 5202 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%205202
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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