par adlpmmc | Jan 23, 2013 | IMPORT2013
A magnetic field has a profound effect on electron dynamics. Quasi-classically, the Lorentz force acting on the electronic charge bends the trajectories, which affects transport properties of metals and semi-conductors. One example is the appearance of an electric...
par adlpmmc | Jan 23, 2013 | IMPORT2013
The technological revolution of the last 30 years has been based on the continuous miniaturization of electronic and optical components. This miniaturization is rapidly reaching the point where a rich variety of quantum effects start playing a major role. Many such...
par adlpmmc | Jan 23, 2013 | IMPORT2013
The many-body problems is at the heart of a great variety of macroscopic condensed matter phenomena. Our activity aims at the description of generic, classical and quantum, N-body systems, ranging from electrons in solids, cold atomic gases,...
par adlpmmc | Jan 23, 2013 | IMPORT2013
Quantum gases are novel systems realized in experiments by trapping and cooling metastables atomic vapors. The gases are extremely dilute (10^9 times less than air) and reach temperatures of a few hundreds of nanoKelvins. In this regime the DeBroglie wavelength of the...
par adlpmmc | Jan 23, 2013 | IMPORT2013
Coherence is one of the principal features of Quantum Mechanics. It is due to coherence that matter waves can interfere and that in the quantum world the superposition of a dead and a living cat imagined by Schroedinger can in principle exist. However,...
