Code | QIC 890/PHYS 768 |
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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):
- Experiments on macroscopic quantum coherence and related phenomena: "measurement" and "weak measurement".
- The idea of a "supersolid":evidence for and against its realization in solid 4-He.
- Exotic superconductors:what do they have in common?
- Ultracold fermionic gases:possibilities for simulation and quantum computing.
- The physics of quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires and related systems.
- The low-temperature properties of glasses:the Cinderella problem of condensed matter physics.
- The idea of "relative phase" in superfluid/superconducting systems.
- Some questions concerning Majorana fermions in (p+ip) Fermi superfluids.