Continue reading… Steve Benton Princeton. Continue reading… Xing Wu Michigan State. A solid-state platform for cooperative quantum phenomena Benedetta Flebus, Department of Physics, Boston College The dissipation resulting from the coupling of a system with its environment is commonly viewed as a foe for quantum technologies. Nonetheless, recent developments at light-matter interfaces have shown that correlated dissipation can be harnessed into novel dynamical states of matter and entanglement in many-body quantum systems.
In this talk, I will discuss how we have recently capitalized on this knowledge from quantum optics to set the stage for the — yet uncharted — exploration of cooperative quantum phenomena in quantum hybrid solid-state platforms.
Continue reading… Benedetta Flebus Boston College. Continue reading… Alice Garoffolo UPenn. Abstract: The discovery of van der Waals vdW materials with intrinsic magnetic order in has given rise to new avenues for the study of emergent phenomena in two dimensions.
In particular, monolayer CrI3 was found to be ferromagnet. Other vdW transition metal halides were later found to have different magnetic properties. How many vdW magnetic materials exist in nature? What are their properties? How do these properties change with the number of layers? The most abundant protein on earth, collagen, is the material building block that forms the basis of our connective tissues and the extracellular matrix that surrounds our cells.
It performs important structural and mechanical roles, holding our bodies together and helping our tissues to withstand a wide variety of forces. Surprisingly, collagen proteins are structurally unstable at body temperature. In this talk, which will be aimed at a very general Physics audience, I will introduce some of the fascinating physical properties of the unique triple-helix structure of collagen and will describe how we are using the techniques of atomic force microscopy and centrifuge force microscopy to study these properties,.
