INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS |
PUBLIC LECTURE |
Stone Cold Science: Bose Einstein Condensation and the Weird World of Physics a Millionth of a Degree Above Absolute Zero |
by |
Professor Eric Cornell, Nobel Laureate JILA, University of Colorado & NIST Boulder, USA |
8 th March 2010, 5:30 p.m. IIA Auditorium, |
Abstract |
As atoms get colder and colder, they become more and more like waves, and less like particles. When a gas of atoms gets so cold that the "waviness" of one atom overlaps the waviness of another, the result is a sort of quantum mechanical identity crisis, a "condensation" predicted 80 years ago by Albert Einstein. Prof. Cornell will discuss how one reaches the necessary recordlow temperatures, and explain why one goes to all the trouble to make this bizarre state of matter. |
All are cordially invited |
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