[f(k)] Fwd: Physics Colloquium 17.4.

[Puheenjohtaja F(k)]

Dear members,

You are all cordially invited to the physics colloquium tomorrow! The 
event starts at 10 o'clock by FYS1, and the speaker will be Tero 
Heikkilä from the Centre of Excellence in Quantum Materials. More 
information is found down below.

Best,
Samuli

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Welcome to the Physics Colloquium!

Coffee is served starting at 10:00 outside the lecture theater FYS1.

Centre of Excellence in Quantum Materials
Tero Heikkilä (University of Jyväskylä)

On the microscopic level of single atoms or electrons, the only way to 
understand materials is quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics also 
provides the only way to understand electronic band structures arising 
from the arrangement of atoms into regular lattices in solid materials, 
and thereby predicting many basic properties of materials, such as their 
electric and thermal conductivity, elastic properties, and color. Such 
properties are inherently of single-particle nature and quite well 
understood. However, there are characteristics of materials exhibiting 
quantum effects in the macroscopic scale, and requiring a many-body 
theory approach. In such quantum materials strong correlations, quantum 
entanglement and topology become important concepts. Improved 
understanding of such effects can help us tackle the major grand 
challenges in materials physics, such as increasing the operating 
temperatures of superconductors towards and beyond the room temperature,
finding ways to do topological quantum computing, and finding new 
platforms for other new technologies. I will describe our new Finnish 
Centre of Excellence in Quantum Materials [1], where eight research 
groups from three Finnish universities and VTT employ modern 
experimental, theoretical and computational approache to study quantum 
materials and create new device applications based on them.

Links:
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[1] http://www.qmat.fi/