The Nick and Maggie DeWolf Foundation

2018 FREE Physics Lectures

Wednesday * January 17 * Wheeler Opera House

4:30 to 5:25 PM Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center

5:30 to 6:30 PM Lecture

“The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials”

A lecture by Laura H Greene, National MagLab and FSU

This talk’s title stresses the extreme “dark” of fundamental, unsolved questions in the fascinating quantum mechanical phenomenon of superconductivity, which to date, only occurs at low temperatures. Superconductivity allows transmission of electrical power with no loss, magnetic levitation, and other intriguing phenomena. Conventional superconductivity was discovered in 1911, but was not solved until 1957. High-temperature superconductivity, discovered in 1986, is only one family of the dozens of families of unconventional superconductors, which fall into the family of quantum materials. Quantum materials, discovered in 1979 (original theory dates back decades before that) remain, surprisingly, unsolved. Greene will define what is a superconductor, an unconventional superconductor, and describe some of the bizarre behaviors of quantum materials. 

Free and all are welcome

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