DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
The Quantum Phases of Matter and Gauge-Gravity Duality


Mar
13
2013

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  • Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard University, Physics)
  • Host Department: Physics
  • Date: 03/13/2013
  • Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  • Location: 340 West Hall  (Show map)

  • Description:

    Many recent experiments have studied matter in a new regime, where large numbers of particles exhibits exhibit complex varieties of quantum entanglement. I will describe two such experiments, in magnetic insulators, and in ultracold atoms in optical lattices. In some cases, new insights and powerful computational methods have come from an unexpected source: the methods of gauge-gravity duality drawn from string theory. I will also briefly describe the status of much current research applying these duality methods to novel metallic states of electrons found in the high temperature superconductors.