*!!!September 17 seminar in Classroom has been rescheduled to September 24 at Phillips Auditorium!!!* Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Please join us for a seminar sponsored by the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. (Complete schedule at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/events.html) 11:00 AM Monday, September 24, 2012 Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA Title: Novel phenomena in light matter interactions based on universal control of asymmetric pathways of quantum states. Nimrod Moiseyev Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Faculty of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and ITAMP (visiting Fall 2012) Abstract In this talk, we will introduce fundamental phenomena in decaying systems, unravel a variety of new effects, identify their physical observables, and propose experimental settings to observe them. The rich complex dynamics in decaying open quantum systems has always been very hard to analyze with traditional tools of quantum mechanics. Hence, many fascinating effects occurring during such processes remained unraveled. Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics offers avenues to analyze the dynamics in such systems. In principle, the new phenomena that will be described can be calculated by using the standard (hermitian) description of QM. However, they can not be explained, predicted, or designed without the calculations of non-hermitian degeneracies (known as exceptional points). In the next coming weeks, a series of lectures (a mini course) will be given on the use of non-hermitian QM to calculate resonances and on the methods which are needed to calculate EPs and their effects on the dynamical behavior of the systems under study. Simple problems will be solved. The participants in the mini course are invited to propose new directions of research based on their work and experience. -- -- Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street, MS 50, Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-496-7938 Email: ggonzalezabad(a)cfa.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list