Montag, 22. April 2013, 18:00 - 20:00 iCal

3rd Erwin Schrödinger Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Serge Haroche

Erwin Schrödinger Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Serge Haroche (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2012)

Kuppelsaal of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna)
Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna

Antrittsvorlesung, Public Lecture

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"Controlling photons in a box and exploring the quantum-classical boundary"

Serge Haroche, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Paris

The founders of quantum theory assumed in “thought experiments” that they were manipulating isolated quantum systems obeying the counterintuitive laws which they had just discovered. Technological advances have recently turned these virtual experiments into real ones by making possible the actual control of isolated quantum particles. Many laboratories are realizing such experiments, in a research field at the frontier between physics and information science. Fundamentally, these studies explore the transition between the microscopic world ruled by quantum laws and our macroscopic environment which appears “classical”. Practically, physicists hope that these experiments will result in new technologies exploiting the strange quantum logic to compute, communicate or measure physical quantities better than was previously conceivable. In Paris, we perform such experiments by juggling with photons trapped between superconducting mirrors. I will give a simple description of these studies, compare them to similar ones performed on other systems and make guesses about possible applications.

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Veranstalter

Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ)

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Kontakt

Barbara Suchanek
Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ)
Faculty of Physics
+43 1 4277 725 45
barbara.suchanek@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Montag, 08. April 2013, 10:45
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 18. April 2013, 09:29