Quantum Matter “On-a-chip”

March 29 2012
Types d’événements
Séminaire SPEC
Guillaume Gervais
SPEC Salle Itzykson, Bât.774
29/03/2012
from 14:30

I will describe my quantum (hopefully not random) walk in the area of low temperature nanoscience, with the hope to elucidate “bizarre” quantum phenomena. I will discuss several experiments that are underway in my laboratory: these include

– our effort to detect bizarre particles that are neither boson or fermion,

– the Coulomb drag of electrons in two closed-pack quantum wires, separated by only ~15 nm,

– a nano-engineered quantum faucet (for real fluids!) and

– an extreme camera that can take pretty pictures in 16 tesla and at a temperature of 100 mK.

It’s a lot of (quantum) fun!

Department of Physics, McGill University