Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | SEM-EXCEP |
Subjects | physics.flu-dyn |
Date | Tuesday 15 October 2019 |
Time | 16:30 |
Institute | LPTM |
Seminar Room | 4.13 St Martin II |
Speaker's Last Name | Bush |
Speaker's First Name | John |
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Speaker's Institution | MIT Cambridge, Mass. USA |
Title | Hydrodynamic quantum analogs: droplets walking on the impossible pilot wave |
Abstract | Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort discovered that droplets walking on a vibrating fluid bath exhibit several features previously thought to be exclusive to the microscopic, quantum realm. These walking droplets propel themselves by virtue of a resonant interaction with their own wave field, and so represent the first macroscopic realization of a pilot-wave system of the form proposed for microscopic quantum dynamics by Louis de Broglie in the 1920s. New experimental and theoretical results allow us to rationalize the emergence of quantum-like behavior in this hydrodynamic pilot-wave system in a number of settings, and explore its potential and limitations as a quantum analog. |
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