諾貝爾物理學獎獲得者Tony Leggett報告通知

報告題目： Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects. 報告人： Pierre Meystre 教授（亞利桑那大學& Phys. Rev. Lett. Lead Editor）報告時間： 2014年5月26日（周一）上午10點報告地點：中國科學院物理研究所M樓M234會議室摘要： I present the motivation for experiments which attempt to generate, and verify the existence of, quantum superpositions of two or more states which are by some reasonable criterion "macroscopically" distinct, and show that various a priori objections to this program made in the literature are flawed. I review the extent to which such experiments currently exist in the areas of free-space molecular diffraction, magnetic biomolecules, quantum optics and Josephson devices, and sketch possible future lines of development of the program. 報告人簡介： Tony Leggett has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983.Professor Leggett is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics.