Designer Matter: Meta-Material Interactions with Light and Sound

Namm 823

Dear Faculty and Students, The Physics Department and Center for Theoretical Physics will conduct a seminar Thursday May 16 at 12:00 pm in Namm Room 823.  Faculty and students are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Topic: Metamaterials are artificial materials with properties well beyond what offered by nature, providing unprecedented opportunities to tailor and

Physics Department presents Resonant time-symmetry breaking in classical and quantum oscillators

Presented by: Professor Mark Dykman, Michigan State University A periodically driven system has discrete time-translation symmetry with the period of the driving. A nonlinear oscillator allows one to see peculiar features of quantum and classical fluctuations as well as tunneling and dissipation in resonantly driven systems. Generally, if a quantum system is in a Floquet