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Planckian dissipation

Date and Time: Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 03:30pm - 04:30pm
Location: Remote - https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99631920400?pwd=N1dZUFBEWERLaTJGQUovQ1FZbXBHdz09
 

Speaker: Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University

 

Abstract: What does everyday copper, high temperature superconductors, magic angle graphene, black holes and the quark gluon plasma have in common? All of them, in some regime, are controlled by a `Planckian’ transport timescale made up from fundamental constants and the temperature: tau ~ hbar/(k T). I will review recent and not-so-recent appearances of this timescale across physics, and will discuss whether the ubiquitous appearance of this timescale is a coincidence or potentially indicative of a deep principle in quantum statistical mechanics.

 Host:  Tom Banks

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