This is to remind you of the TODAY's Physics Colloquium:
Speaker: C. Marcus, Harvard University
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Time: 16:45 h (coffee at 16:15 h in front of auditorium)
Place: ETH Hönggerberg, HPV G4
Title: Quantum Dots: Physics, Pure and Applied
Abstract:
Quantum dots have been termed "artificial atoms." But we already have
real atoms - indeed, many of them! So these artificial atoms should
offer something that real atoms do not. What do they offer? This talk
will present some of the possibilities, and some of the unique, or at
least new, properties offered by these quantum systems. The focus will
be on fundamental problems in physics: decoherence, quantum chaos,
many-body interactions, and some spectulations on the use of quantum
dots as the basis of quantum information systems.