CM Seminar: Many body entanglement, strange metals and black holes

Event Date:
2019-02-07T14:00:00
2019-02-07T15:00:00
Event Location:
BRIM 311
Speaker:
Jan Zaanen Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University and the Physics Department, Stanford University, USA
Related Upcoming Events:
Condensed Matter Seminars
Event Information:

It may well be that mankind has understood only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the nature of matter. Densely many body entangled compressible states of matter may exist exhibiting entirely different physical behaviors compared to the "classical" short ranged entangled product state stuffs from the high energy- and condensed matter textbooks. Although not computable directly - a quantum computer is required - a remarkable confluence occurred in theoretical physics involving empirical notions from condensed matter physics merging with the holographic duality of string theory, and notions of quantum information.  This theoretical development suggests universal principles of a new kind to be at work. As a common denominator, these suggest paradoxically that observable properties may be unreasonably simple. I will highlight some very recent experimental developments both in the Netherlands and Stanford aimed at finding out whether such principles are actually the secret behind the long standing mysteries revealed by condensed matter experimentation in  especially  the cuprate superconductors.

 

Add to Calendar 2019-02-07T14:00:00 2019-02-07T15:00:00 CM Seminar: Many body entanglement, strange metals and black holes Event Information: It may well be that mankind has understood only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the nature of matter. Densely many body entangled compressible states of matter may exist exhibiting entirely different physical behaviors compared to the "classical" short ranged entangled product state stuffs from the high energy- and condensed matter textbooks. Although not computable directly - a quantum computer is required - a remarkable confluence occurred in theoretical physics involving empirical notions from condensed matter physics merging with the holographic duality of string theory, and notions of quantum information.  This theoretical development suggests universal principles of a new kind to be at work. As a common denominator, these suggest paradoxically that observable properties may be unreasonably simple. I will highlight some very recent experimental developments both in the Netherlands and Stanford aimed at finding out whether such principles are actually the secret behind the long standing mysteries revealed by condensed matter experimentation in  especially  the cuprate superconductors.   Event Location: BRIM 311