Colloquium: Quantum Synchronisation (Streaming)

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The colloquium will be held in the Budinich Lecture Hall today, 21st 
October at 16:30, and will be streamed on video.ictp.it

Speaker: Rosario FAZIO (Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section)

Title: Quantum Synchronisation

Abstract

In the 17th century, C. Huygens noticed that the oscillations of two 
pendulum clocks with a common support tend to synchronise. Since then, 
analogous phenomena have been observed in a large variety of different 
contexts. Synchronisation is ubiquitous in our world, governing the 
synchronous flashing of fireflies along the rivers of Malaysia as well 
as the dynamics of heart cells. The astonishing progresses in 
nano-technologies offer a new arena where to study this phenomenon in 
the quantum domain. I will review recent progresses in this direction.