Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 1:30 pm — Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555
Einstein’s early interest in molecular sizes and motions, transport in solids, and in the photoelectric effect in 1905 can be thought of as research on condensed matter systems. In fact, it has been suggested that his work on the heat capacity of solids in 1907 was one of the first theoretical solid state physics papers. Over the following hundred years, particularly aided by the development of quantum theory, this field has had great growth. Today we have a “standard model” that applies to a broad class of condensed matter systems. I’ll describe some of this history and then go on to a discussion of the use of the reductionism and emergence concepts in condensed matter physics using examples from research on the ground-state and excited-state properties of solids. Finally, I’ll focus on a few recent developments in nanoscience and superconductivity that my Berkeley colleagues and I have contributed to.
Hosted by: Ivan Bozovic
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