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Physics Seminar: Negative refractive index for graphene and surface Plasmon instability for hybrid structures

N-823

Presented by: Distinguished Professor Godfrey Gumbs Femtosecond and subfemtosecond time scales typically rule electron dynamics at metal surfaces. Recent advances in experimental techniques allow the experimental study of such dynamics. In this talk, we shall analyze electron dynamics at surfaces and nanostructures with emphasis on screening times, spin dependence of charge transfer of adsorbates and

Physics Seminar: Prof. William Wootters:
Why does nature like the square root of negative one?

N-823

Place: Namm 823 Date: Thursday, March 31 2016 Time: 12:00 PM   Presented by Prof. William Wootters Faculty and students are welcome.   Abstract: Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic theory, but the way we compute probabilities in quantum mechanics is quite different from what one would expect from, say, rolling dice or tossing coins.  To get a quantum probability,

Physics Seminar: Chiral Bose and Fermi phases in orbital optical lattices

N-823

Place: Namm 823 Date: Thursday, December 3 at Time: 12:00 PM Presented by Prof. W. Vincent Liu Faculty and students are welcome, light refreshments will be served. Abstract: When interacting ultracold atoms are loaded into the metastable but long lived higher orbital excited bands of an optical lattice, would it be possible for the atoms to