Advances in technology have made it possible to fabricate structures like rings and spherical shells on the nanometer scale. Such quantum structures can act as artificial atoms, with spectra and shell structure similar to those of real atoms. Recently it has also become possible to fabricate arrays of such objects, each only tens of nanometers across. If a quantum dot can be thought of as an artificial atom, then rings (and other more complicated structures) can be thought of as “atoms” that do not exist in nature. We can vary their geometry to control properties such as polarizability, and coupling strength in order to produce new types of correlated systems.
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Lectures/Literary |
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Free to the public |
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Wednesday, February 10th 2010 | 3:00 PM |
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Dr. Kieran Mullen |
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Wichita State University |
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1845 N. Fairmount
Wichita, KS 67260 |
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