QIC 891 Sir Anthony Leggett Lecture Series 2012

Code QIC 890/PHYS 768
Semester/Year Offered Winter 2012
Instructor Anthony Leggett
Location RAC1 2009, unless otherwise noted
Time Lectures: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9:00-10:20
Office Hours: Fridays, 9:00-10:20, in RAC1 1112

Dates

  • June 19 (RAC1 2004)
  • June 21 (RAC1 2004)
  • June 26 (RAC1 2004)
  • June 28
  • July 3
  • July 5
  • July 10
  • July 12
  • July 17
  • July 19
  • July 24
  • July 26

Description

Title: Selected topics in many-body physics and quantum foundations/information.

Abstract: This course attempts to discuss a number of different topics which have been requested by IQC members. A tentative list of individual topics (subject to revision):

  1. Experiments on macroscopic quantum coherence and related phenomena: "measurement" and "weak measurement".
  2. The idea of a "supersolid":evidence for and against its realization in solid 4-He.
  3. Exotic superconductors:what do they have in common?
  4. Ultracold fermionic gases:possibilities for simulation and quantum computing.
  5. The physics of quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires and related systems.
  6. The low-temperature properties of glasses:the Cinderella problem of condensed matter physics.
  7. The idea of "relative phase" in superfluid/superconducting systems.
  8. Some questions concerning Majorana fermions in (p+ip) Fermi superfluids.