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SUMMARY:Quantum Materials - The Quantum Dance of Electrons in Solids - Pro
 fessor Malte Grosche (Department of Physics\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20210314T161500Z
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CONTACT:Miroslava Novoveska
DESCRIPTION:YouTube link: https://youtu.be/YiBXqfTzwEA\n\nRegistration for
 m to attend Q&A session on Zoom: https://forms.gle/tTRQreym7s6pR2rW6\n\nIn
  late 19th-century Cambridge\, an age of coal and steel\, J. J. Thomson’
 s experiments on the nature of the electron would have seemed exotic and p
 ractically useless. A generation later\, when an entire industry had grown
  around the use of vacuum tubes\, few people again would have seriously co
 nsidered replicating such devices in solids. But because in high purity cr
 ystals electrons can travel over long distances without scattering – mim
 icking properties of the vacuum within the solid state – electrons can b
 e controlled and manipulated to a previously unimagined degree. Whereas in
  semiconductors the mobile electrons are highly diluted\, electrons in met
 als form a dense\, interacting quantum liquid. These ‘quantum materials'
  can host new states of matter\, which are classified in terms of broken s
 ymmetries - such as magnetism\, superconductivity and charge density wave 
 order - or in terms of topological invariants. This talk will review resea
 rch in this area and consider where it may lead.
LOCATION:Online
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