AIP Theoretical Physics Seminar: 26 August

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Date: 26 August 2021
Time: 1:00 pm
The seminar will be presented via Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e2iTFLnfR_Wd0e0aUITZyQ

Speaker: Carl Bender, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: PT Symmetry

Abstract:  By using complex-variable methods one can extend conventional Hermitian quantum theories into the complex domain. The result is a huge and exciting new class of non-Hermitian parity-time-symmetric (PT-symmetric) theories that still obey the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. These new theories have remarkable physical properties, which are currently under intense study by theorists and experimentalists. Many theoretical predictions have been verified in recent beautiful laboratory experiments.