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Start: 2009-06-02 11:00
End: 2009-06-02 12:00
Pizza will be served at 11.30am. Sign up in the Physics Main Office. Ask a world expert (and exceptional teacher) about nanophysics and learn about opportunities in research and industry related to nanophysics. Start: 2009-06-02 14:00
End: 2009-06-02 15:00
The electronic properties of carbon nanotubes exhibit fascinating parallels to phenomena normally encountered in elementary particle physics. The quantization of the electron motion around the circumference of the tube gives rise to electron-hole symmetric subbands. Each subband is analogous to a different elementary particle/antiparticle, and the mathematics describing this is analogous to early versions of string theory. Furthermore, the subbands have a relativistic dispersion relation, with the speed of light replaced by the Fermi velocity. | ||
