Pancharatnam Lecture

The Entanglement Frontier

Speaker: Prof. Sandip Trivedi (TIFR Mumbai)

Date and time
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Auditorium

Abstract

Although Quantum Mechanics is about a century old we are only slowly beginning to grasp how truly strange it is. It is now clear that there is an essential weirdness in Quantum Systems which makes them very different from classical ones. This weirdness is called Entanglement and it is responsible for many things such as the violations of Bell's inequalities. Entanglement is also a key reason to hope that we can build quantum computers which are much more powerful than their classical counterparts. In the colloquium, I will discuss the concept of Entanglement and describe how it can be precisely quantified in various settings including Gauge Theories which arise in particle physics and condensed matter physics. More broadly, I will discuss some of the promise that our growing understanding of Quantum Mechanics holds for the future in various branches of science.

Prof. Sandip Trivedi was the Director and Senior Professor at TIFR, Mumbai. He completed his master of Science (Integrated) in physics from IIT Kanpur in 1985. He was awarded his PhD in 1990 from Caltech, USA. Later he went on to work as a post-doctoral research associate at IAS, Princeton until 1992. After a stint in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA, he joined TIFR as Reader in 1999. He won the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the Physical Sciences in 2005. He was the recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences. He is also a recipient of the TWAS Prize in Physics in 2015. He was awarded the J C Bose and Swarnajayanthi Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.