Description
The Rice Center for Quantum Materials
invites you to attend the inaugural event in their
LECTURE SERIES ON QUANTUM MATERIALS
"Emergent Phenomena and Broken Symmetries:One-dimensional Objects and their Dot/Cross Products"
SPEAKER: Sang-Wook Cheong
Henry Rutgers Professor
Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers
Director, Center for Quantum Materials Synthesis
Director, Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials
Department of Physics & Astronomy
ABSTRACT: Emergent physical phenomena and broken symmetries can be linked through one-dimensional objects and their dot or cross products. Eight kinds of one-dimensional (1D) objects (four; vector-like, the other four; director-like) and their dot/cross products are defined in terms of symmetry. The dot or products form certain mathematical groups. Those 1D objects are associated with characteristic physical phenomena, and when a 3D system has identical or lower (but not higher) symmetries than an 1D object with particular phenomena, the 3D system can exhibit the phenomena. Using this straightforward concept, we can understand and also predict numerous new emergent phenomena in known materials or new complex materials for desired phenomena.
Wednesday,
November 17, 2021
Brockman Hall for Physics, First Floor
Rice University
4:00 pm — Room 101
Reception to follow lecture
LECTURE SERIES ON QUANTUM MATERIALS
Co-sponsored by Rice University’s Office of the Provost,
Wiess School of Natural Sciences and George R. Brown School of Engineering