Mar 28
Candidate research talks
Visiting Professor candidate Prabal Adhikari will give a talk on Tuesday, March 28th at 12:00 noon in Olin 04.
Lunch will be provided.
Students will have time to meet with him in the 2nd Olin lounge at 1:00 pm.
Exotic Phases in Quantum Chromodynamics
In this talk, I will present some basic properties of the theory of the strong force, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), and discuss some of the exotic phases that arise within the theory. QCD has a rich phase structure that we hope can explain a wide range of phenomena including the properties of neutron stars and the quark-gluon plasma that existed in the early stages of the universe. In this talk, I will discuss the origin of superfluidity, superconductivity and present some results on magnetic vortices and chiral density waves from my research.