诺贝尔物理学奖获得者Tony Leggett报告通知

报告题目： Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects. 报告人： Pierre Meystre 教授（亚利桑那大学& Phys. Rev. Lett. Lead Editor）报告时间： 2014年5月26日（周一）上午10点报告地点：中国科学院物理研究所M楼M234会议室摘要： 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. 报告人简介： 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.