Date
March 24 (Mon) at 14:00 - 15:30, 2025 (JST)
Speaker
  • Gordon Baym (Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, USA)
Language
English
Host
Tetsuo Hatsuda

This is a RIKEN iTHEMS - The Univ. of Tokyo, Phys. Dept. Joint Seminar.

This year, 2025, the "International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ)," is the 100th anniversary of the "formal" start of quantum mechanics, the description of the microscopic world. 1925 is the year in which Werner Heisenberg and others formulated "matrix mechanics," and physicists began to understand how to accurately predict microscopic phenomena.

In this talk I will describe how quantum mechanics came about, starting with physicists in the late nineteenth century trying to understand the colors of hot metals and other hot objects, noting crucial advances leading to the fully developed wave and matrix quantum mechanics in the mid 1920's, to steps towards understanding real materials, culminating with spectacular applications such as smartphones, scarcely a century later.

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