Are you curious about quantum mechanics? What’s does it mean when we say that particles are entangled?
The world leading conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES2025) will be in town from the 5th the 11 of July, and one of the invited speaker is delivering a conference geared to the interested public on this subject.
A hundred years ago a twenty three year old student called Heisenberg took a summer vacation on the North Sea island of Heligoland to get over his wretched hay fever, and he came back with insights that shook the world of science to its core, leading to the quantum revolution. Answers to age-old questions such as why hot things change color, why matter is hard, what is electricity, how does the sun keep shining - became clear and this opened a new era of science and technology. Today, this revolution is not over: we’re only at the half-time show.
In my talk I’ll tell you about the quantum revolution, how it was a hundred years ago, and how physicists are gathering this week in Montreal to discuss a new range of quantum problems: a strange quantum universe we find in the lab: strange metals, new kinds of insulators and strange materials that not only conduct electricity without resistance, but can do so at high temperatures. I’ll give you a hint of why we’re so excited, and our hopes for this new quantum universe.
