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SUMMARY:Emergent Phenomena in the Control Age - Professor Lu Yu\, Institut
 e of Physics\, Chinese Academy of Sciences
DTSTART:20091028T161500Z
DTEND:20091028T171500Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:    The enormous progress in the science driven modern technol
 ogy has fundamentally transformed the human society\, creating all kinds o
 f comfort of the modern civilization. Science is now positioned to initiat
 e a new ‘control age’\, instead of being only able to ‘observe’ an
 d ‘interpret’ the quantum world. The pressing needs of ‘post-Moore
 ’ information era\, the world-scale energy and environment crisis\, as w
 ell as the human dream of establishing ‘dialogue’ between biological a
 nd non-biological matter call for the ability to control the matter\, ener
 gy and information at the atomic\, molecular\, even the electronic level. 
 The modern instrumentation allows for observing\, manipulating single atom
 s/molecules\, creation and detection of single electron charge/spin and si
 ngle photon. The central issue is to understand and to control the mysteri
 ous emergent properties of the quantum matter. Several examples of the eme
 rgent phenomena will be illustrated\, while the BCS theory of superconduct
 ivity will be used to explain some peculiar features of these phenomena li
 ke symmetry breaking. Some current challenges in studying the quantum matt
 er will be outlined.
LOCATION:Cavendish Laboratory\,Pippard Lecture Theatre\,
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