From Materials Science to Basic Physics
Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium
- Date: Apr 29, 2016
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Mikhail Katsnelson
- Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Location: CFEL (Bldg. 99)
- Room: Seminar Room I-III, EG.076-080
- Host: CFEL, CUI, DESY, European XFEL, HZG, MPSD, SFB 925, UHH
Condensed matter provides us deep insights into quantum physics. Giving just two examples, wave-corpuscle duality manifests itself in spectroscopy of strongly correlated systems as coexistence of itinerant and atomic-like features, and graphene and other Dirac materials provide a natural playground to study vacuum reconstruction, Klein tunneling and other fundamental quantum relativistic phenomena. Electron-photon interaction is the key tool to understand this rich and nontrivial physics.