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UCB Mathematics Department Colloquium: Bose-Einstein condensation: from many quantum particles to a quantum "superparticle" Colloquium September 10, 2015 (04:00 PM PDT - 05:00 PM PDT)
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Location: 60 Evans Hall UCB
Speaker(s) Kay Kirkpatrick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Near absolute zero, a gas of quantum particles can condense into an unusual state of matter, called Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), that behaves like a giant quantum particle. The rigorous connection has recently been made between the physics of the microscopic many-body dynamics and the mathematics of the macroscopic model, the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS). I'll discuss progress with Gerard Ben Arous and Benjamin Schlein on a central limit theorem for the quantum many-body dynamics, a step towards large deviations for Bose-Einstein condensation.

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