Horizon Lecture Quantum Superposition, Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Technologies
Speaks on Quantum Entanglement
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Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh th 5 Prof. B.M. Anand Lecture Prof. Bal Mokand Anand was history’s choice for establishing Panjab University’s Physics Department in its permanent campus at Chandigarh and iniang research acvity there. He published original research in the 1930s and 1940s and had the disncon of working for his doctorate, in the 1950s, under the supervision of Professor Cecil Frank Powell who a few years previously (1947) had been awarded physics Nobel Prize for his discovery of a subatomic parcle pion (or pi meson), using nuclear emulsion technique. Anand’s 20-page research paper, based on his Ph. D. work, and published by the Royal Society, London, in 1953 is sll considered relevant. Bal Mokand was born in a village, Domel, in the Bannu district of what is now the Khyber Pakthunwa province of Pakistan. An only child who lost his mother at birth, he was raised by an aunt unl the age of seven. With a view to be with his son and educang him, his father gave up his job as a travelling salesman, and moved to Peshawar where he opened a small grocery store, the back poron of which was improvised to serve as the family’s modest living quarter. Prof. B.M. Anand (1905 – 1998) Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi “Quantum Entanglement” SPEAKER Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai Speaks on 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 essenal weirdness in Quantum Systems which makes them very different from classical ones. This weirdness is responsible for many things such as the violaon of Bell's inequalies, and it is also the reason to hope that we can build quantum computers which are much more powerful than their classical counterparts. Entanglement entropy has emerged as an important quantave measure of this weirdness. In the Lecture we will discuss the concept of Entanglement and show how it can be defined in Gauge Theories which underlay our descripon of the fundamental forces of nature. About the Speaker The fih Prof. B. M. Anand Memorial Lecture is being delivered by Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi, Director, Tata Instute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Prof. Trivedi is an internaonally renowned theorecal physicist whose research areas include, string theory, cosmology and parcle physics. In parcular, his research contribuons span Superstring theories, Quantum Gravity, Black holes and their thermo-dynamical properes, Holography of Black Holes and Entanglement Entropy in Gauge Theories. His most talked about research concerns resoluon in string theory of the cosmological problem of an accelerang universe and providing a credible mechanism for generang a small, posive cosmological constant. Dr. Sandip P. Trivedi did M.Sc., Physics (1985) from Indian Instute of Technology, Kanpur, and Ph.D. (1990) in Theorecal Physics with Professor John Preskill from California Instute of Technology, USA. Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (1990-1992) at Instute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA; John A. McCone Research Fellow (1992-1994) at Department of Physics, California Instute of Technology; Associate Scienst (1994-1999) at Department of Theorecal Physics, Fermi Naonal Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois, USA; He served as Reader (1999-2002), Associate Professor (2002-2006) and Professor (2006-2012) at Department of Theorecal Physics, TIFR, Mumbai. He is Senior Professor since 2013. He has taken the charge as Director of TIFR, Mumbai on January, 2015. Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi has been with awarded various disnguished prizes – Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize for Physics (2015); J.C. Bose Fellowship (DST), (2012); Disnguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur (2010); Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences (2010), Shan Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences (2005); Swarnajayan Fellowship (DST), (2002). Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi is Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2006), Fellow, Indian Naonal Science Academy, New Delhi (2012), and Editor, Annals of Physics, 2004-2006. Venue: Prof. B.M. Anand Auditorium, Department of Physics, Panjab University. Date: rd 23 April 2019 Time: 2:30 pm
Transcript of Speaks on Quantum Entanglement
Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarhth
5 Prof. B.M. Anand LectureProf. Bal Mokand Anand was history’s choice for establishing Panjab University’s Physics Department in its
permanent campus at Chandigarh and ini�a�ng research ac�vity there. He published original research in the
1930s and 1940s and had the dis�nc�on of working for his doctorate, in the 1950s, under the supervision of
Professor Cecil Frank Powell who a few years previously (1947) had been awarded physics Nobel Prize for his
discovery of a subatomic par�cle pion (or pi meson), using nuclear emulsion technique. Anand’s 20-page
research paper, based on his Ph. D. work, and published by the Royal Society, London, in 1953 is s�ll considered
relevant. Bal Mokand was born in a village, Domel, in the Bannu district of what is now the Khyber Pakthunwa
province of Pakistan. An only child who lost his mother at birth, he was raised by an aunt un�l the age of seven.
With a view to be with his son and educa�ng him, his father gave up his job as a travelling salesman, and moved
to Peshawar where he opened a small grocery store, the back por�on of which was improvised to serve as the
family’s modest living quarter.Prof. B.M. Anand
(1905 – 1998)
Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi
“Quantum Entanglement”
SPEAKER
Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai
Speaks on
AbstractAlthough 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
essen�al weirdness in Quantum Systems which makes them very different from classical ones. This weirdness is responsible for many things
such as the viola�on of Bell's inequali�es, and it is also the reason to hope that we can build quantum computers which are much more
powerful than their classical counterparts. Entanglement entropy has emerged as an important quan�ta�ve measure of this weirdness. In the
Lecture we will discuss the concept of Entanglement and show how it can be defined in Gauge Theories which underlay our descrip�on of the
fundamental forces of nature.
About the SpeakerThe fi�h Prof. B. M. Anand Memorial Lecture is being delivered by Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi, Director, Tata Ins�tute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai. Prof. Trivedi is an interna�onally renowned theore�cal physicist whose research areas include, string theory, cosmology and par�cle
physics. In par�cular, his research contribu�ons span Superstring theories, Quantum Gravity, Black holes and their thermo-dynamical
proper�es, Holography of Black Holes and Entanglement Entropy in Gauge Theories. His most talked about research concerns resolu�on in
string theory of the cosmological problem of an accelera�ng universe and providing a credible mechanism for genera�ng a small, posi�ve
cosmological constant.
Dr. Sandip P. Trivedi did M.Sc., Physics (1985) from Indian Ins�tute of Technology, Kanpur, and Ph.D. (1990) in Theore�cal Physics with Professor
John Preskill from California Ins�tute of Technology, USA. Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (1990-1992) at Ins�tute for
Advanced Study, Princeton, USA; John A. McCone Research Fellow (1992-1994) at Department of Physics, California Ins�tute of Technology;
Associate Scien�st (1994-1999) at Department of Theore�cal Physics, Fermi Na�onal Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois, USA; He served as Reader
(1999-2002), Associate Professor (2002-2006) and Professor (2006-2012) at Department of Theore�cal Physics, TIFR, Mumbai. He is Senior
Professor since 2013. He has taken the charge as Director of TIFR, Mumbai on January, 2015.
Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi has been with awarded various dis�nguished prizes – Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize for Physics (2015);
J.C. Bose Fellowship (DST), (2012); Dis�nguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur (2010); Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences (2010), Shan� Swarup
Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences (2005); Swarnajayan� Fellowship (DST), (2002). Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi is Fellow, Indian Academy of
Sciences, Bangalore (2006), Fellow, Indian Na�onal Science Academy, New Delhi (2012), and Editor, Annals of Physics, 2004-2006.
Venue: Prof. B.M. Anand Auditorium, Department of Physics, Panjab University.Date: rd23 April 2019 Time: 2:30 pm
