Presented By: Department of Physics
2018 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and a "Second Quantum Revolution"
F. Duncan Haldane, Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate (Princeton University)
While the laws of quantum mechanics have remained unchanged and have passed all tests for the last eighty-five years, new discoveries about the exotic states that they allow, “entanglement”, and ideas from quantum information theory, have greatly changed our perspective, and some believe that a “second quantum revolution” is currently underway. The discovery of unexpected “topological states of matter”, and their possible use for “topologically-protected quantum information processing” is one of the important themes of these developments, and will be described.
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