The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Physics
- Location
- Loomis Lab 141
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Oct 29, 2025 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Speaker
- Dmitri Kharzeev (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
- Contact
- Danielle Swigart
- dswigart@illinois.edu
- Views
- 165
"Chirality meets Quantum"
Chirality is a ubiquitous concept in science, from nuclear physics to biology.
This talk will delve into the fascinating interplay between chirality and quantum physics, unveiling a number of novel phenomena. In particular, we will discuss a new kind of non-dissipative transport (the ``chiral magnetic effect”), response of plasmas to chirality imbalance (“chiral magnetic instability”), and a new effect arising for confined chiral quarks (“baryon-number - flavor separation”). Throughout the talk, the implications on ongoing and future experiments at RHIC, JLab, LHC and EIC, and on condensed matter experiments and astrophysical observations will be emphasized.