Gary Steele Delft University of Technology (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience) “Cavity Optomechanics: Detecting and controlling motion with microwave light” Optomechanics is a field that uses light confined in a cavity to detect and control the motion of a mechanical resonator, potentially even at the quantum level. In this talk, I… Continue reading
Helmut Schiessel Universiteit Leiden (LION/Theoretical Physics) “Breaking the second genetic code ” When we have a phone conversation we typically share the wire or optical fiber with other people that have phone conversations as well. Multiplexing of information is common in today’s technology and does not surprise us anymore. Remarkably… Continue reading
Vincent Mourik (TUDelft) “Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices” In condensed matter physics, Majorana fermions are theoretically proposed fermionic quasiparticles that are equal to their own antiparticle. Theoretically these quasiparticles have been investigated intensively for almost two decades which resulted in many exciting predictions, some of which are direct… Continue reading
