From string theory to quantum dots experiments
Event details
| Date | 15.02.2016 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Ian Affleck, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Part of the string theory revolution of the 1980s was the development of conformal field theory. While its applicability as a theory of everything is still unclear, it led to solutions of models of conduction electrons interacting with magnetic impurities that predict remarkable behavior. A gated semi-conductor device was tailored to finally provide an indisputable experimental realization of this theory. I will give a non-technical review of both theory and experiments.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Section de Physique
Contact
- Prof. Frédéric Mila, [email protected]