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SUMMARY:Visualizing Quantum Matter - J.C. Séamus Davis\, Cornell Universi
 ty\;  Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University
DTSTART:20161123T160000Z
DTEND:20161123T170000Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:Everything around us\, everything each of us has ever experien
 ced\, and virtually everything underpinning our technological society and 
 economy is governed by quantum mechanics. Yet this most fundamental physic
 al theory of nature often feels as if it is a set of somewhat eerie and co
 unterintuitive ideas of no direct relevance to our lives. Why is this? One
  reason is that we cannot perceive the strangeness (and astonishing beauty
 ) of the quantum mechanical phenomena all around us by using our own sense
 s. I will describe the recent development of techniques that allow us to i
 mage electronic quantum phenomena directly at the atomic scale. As example
 s\, we will visually explore the previously unseen and very beautiful form
 s of quantum matter making up electronic liquid crystals and high temperat
 ure superconductors and find that they are closely related. I will discuss
  the implications for fundamental physics research and also for advanced m
 aterials and new technologies\, arising from quantum matter visualization.
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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