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SUMMARY:Charlie Marcus and Michael Freedman Lectures
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DESCRIPTION:You're invited to join two talks on Friday\, October 29th\, 1
 0 am - 12 pm. Both will be hybrid events\, held in the 2nd floor auditori
 um (IDA) as well as via Zoom.\n\nSpeaker: Charlie Marcus\, principal rese
 archer at Microsoft Quantum Research and a professor at Niels Bohr Institu
 te (NBI)\, University of Copenhagen\nTime: 10 am - 11 am\nTitle: Protectin
 g Quantum Information\nAbstract: This talk will summarize recent experimen
 tal progress toward protecting quantum information in solid-state electron
 ic devices. The first is using topological superconductivity to create enc
 odings that spatially separate information in the form of Majorana zero mo
 des. The second\, the so-called zero-pi qubit\, uses a related encoding wh
 ere states are separated in a more abstract way.  Both approaches use hyb
 rid materials with essential properties not readily found in a single mate
 rial.\n\nSpeaker: Michael Freedman\, Distinguished Scientist with MSR-NE 
 and was Founding Director of Microsoft Quantum – Santa Barbara (Station 
 Q)\n\nTime: 11 am - 12 pm\nTitle : The Universe from a single Particle\nAb
 stract: I will explore a toy model in which spontaneous symmetry breaking 
 – acting on the level of operators (not states) - can produce the intera
 cting physics we see about us from the simpler\, single particle\, quantum
  mechanics we study as undergraduates. The spirit is to look for the simpl
 est context from which the rich physics of our universe might have emerged
 .  The talk is based on joint work with Modj Shokrian Zini\,  see arXiv:
 2011.05917 and arXiv:2108.12709\n\nhttps://indico.flatironinstitute.org/ev
 ent/2680/
URL:https://indico.flatironinstitute.org/event/2680/
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