Speaker: Andrew Millis, Columbia University and Flatiron Institute
Quantum mechanics is very strange: entanglement, superposition, Einstein's “spooky action at a distance” are so far from the realm of our classical intuition that it is difficult to understand them. Although many of the important behaviors of materials (semiconductors, superconductors, magnets, optical amplifiers, to name a few) are fundamentally quantum in origin, our understanding until recently was based firmly on classical concepts . We have tried to confine quantum phenomena within a classical framework. In this talk I will show how this is changing, how the community is tackling inherently quantum concepts, and how this new understanding is transforming our ability to understand and calculate the properties of the world around us, both in general and in the field. . technologically useful materials.

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