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Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "Traveling in Meta Space-Time: particle dynamics in Floquet-Bloch Crystal"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
The Physics Department & The Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
Location
190 ESB
Date
Oct 21, 2019   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Qian Niu, Univeristy of Texas
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Originating Calendar
Physics - The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

In this talk, I will discuss a formulation of particle dynamics in a medium with periodicity in both position and time, and under external perturbations which are slowly varying over the scale of the unit cells.  When a particle or excitation is prepared in a quasi-energy band, its dynamics exhibit exotic behaviors unseen in Newtonian mechanics, with all sorts of geometric and topological structures. 

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