[Physstaff] FW: Glasgow Colloquium 28/10/15, 3pm, Claudia Eberlein

[Daniel Oi]

FYI There's an unfortunate clash with our own colloquium this week.

From: Sonja Franke-Arnold [mailto:Sonja.Franke-Arnold at glasgow.ac.uk]
Sent: 26 October 2015 12:06
To: Daniel Oi <daniel.oi at strath.ac.uk>
Subject: colloquium this week 28/10/15, 3pm, Claudia Eberlein


Dear All,



Please note this week's colloquium, another quantum theory talk, almost following from last week's instalment!



speaker:  Claudia Eberlein, University of Sussex

topic: Quantum physics near real material surfaces  (abstract below)

time: 28/10/15, 3pm-4pm

place and time:  Kelvin Building 257,  followed by dougnhuts/coffee/talk in the common room



Sonja

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Title: Quantum physics near real material surfaces

Summary:
Atoms and electrons and their dynamics are well described by quantum
mechanics. Quantum electrodynamics accounts for additional effects like
the Lamb shift in atoms or the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron
which have been measured to a very high precision. The theory for that
is part of textbooks and well established. However, in reality systems
do not consist of just one isolated atom or a single electron by itself;
any quantum system under investigation invariably has loads of materials
around it. This is particularly true in nanotechnology where those
boundaries are quite close to the quantum object being trapped or
guided. This talk gives in introduction to the kind of problems
encountered when one tries to replicate the simple textbook theory for
atoms and electrons near real material surfaces of various kinds.




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