Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2021
Volume 66, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 15–19, 2021; Virtual; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA
Session S10: Top Quality Early Career Science in EuropeInvited Live
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Sponsoring Units: FECS FIP Chair: Maria Longobardi, Univ of Geneva; Alan Hurd, Los Alamos Natl Lab |
Thursday, March 18, 2021 11:30AM - 12:06PM Live |
S10.00001: Obtaining an ERC Starting Grant Invited Speaker: Toma Susi The European Research Council (ERC) is the continent's pre-eminent source of competitive funding to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields. The ERC was designed by researchers and its funding decisions are made by disciplinary peers on 'bottom-up' proposals solely on the basis of scientific excellence. Grants are awarded through open competition to projects headed by starting and established researchers who are working or moving to work in Europe. |
Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:06PM - 12:42PM Live |
S10.00002: Colloidal Perovskite Nanocrystals for Optoelectronics Invited Speaker: Francesco Di Stasio Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers are part of our everyday life as they are commonly used in a variety of electronic systems. |
Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:42PM - 1:18PM Live |
S10.00003: The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics... and a possible solution Invited Speaker: Angelo Bassi Quantum Mechanics is still a mystery. It works perfectly in describing the properties of matter and light, and in developing novel technologies, yet no one understands what it is really about. The reason is that the Copenhagen interpretation assumes a division between the microscopic world governed by quantum rules and a macroscopic world of apparatus and observers that obeys classical physics. This division should not be part of a fundamental theory of nature, but removing it is not an easy task. I will discuss this problem, and will review some solutions that have been proposed to overcome it. In particular, I will present spontaneous wave function collapse models: they assume a new dynamics for physical systems in place of the Schrödinger equation, where the superposition principle progressively loses validity when moving from the micro- to the macro-world. I will show how this is implemented mathematically. I will discuss the physical consequences of the new dynamics, and the most promising experiments to test them, which span over a large variety of experimental platforms. |
Thursday, March 18, 2021 1:18PM - 1:54PM Live |
S10.00004: Control and readout architecture for integrated quantum circuits Invited Speaker: Alessandro Casaburi Quantum technology has gone in few years from “blue sky” science to a rapidly developing field of technology: one of the most important commercial and strategic sectors to invest on, with an increasing focus on real-world applications. This is due to the disruptive performances offered in most notable examples: quantum computing focused to solve computationally impossible tasks of societal importance like optimization, cryptanalysis, machine learning; or advanced sensing techniques to investigate and exploit the quantum nature of light. Superconducting technology offers the best in class devices for quantum computing, Superconducting qubits1, and single photon sensing, superconducting nanowires single photon detectors operating in RF regime RF-SNSPDs.2 In both cases, power dissipation, footprint, limited frequency/accuracy of the standard electronics (CMOS) used for control and readout prevent their scaling up in size to achieve required performances in real world applications.1,3 The implementation of a scalable architecture goes far beyond the realm of ‘mere’ engineering and a transformative approach is required to exploit the “quantum advantage”. |
Thursday, March 18, 2021 1:54PM - 2:30PM Live |
S10.00005: Electrocatalysis from two-dimensional materials: an ERC project Invited Speaker: Damien Voiry Electrochemical reactions can afford hydrogen gas (H2) and small organic molecules from water and CO2, respectively and therefore offers promise for the production of fuels. Owing to their reduced dimensionality, two dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as interesting platforms for studying electrocatalysis1. In addition, their properties can largely be tuned by changing their elemental composition, their thickness and their atomic structure. |
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