Michael Crescimanno, professor of physics, astronomy, geology and environmental sciences at Youngstown State University will share his work on electromagnetically induced transparency.
Enantomeric ripening in chemistry, the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the early universe, comparing the effects of driving your car forward or backing up your car over a speedbump and how scallops swim in viscous media are all deeply related manifestations of the same underlying physical principle crystalized most succinctly in the Sakharov Conditions, which pertain to systems with a broken discrete symmetry that are driven out of equilibrium. After exploring a few illustrative examples of the Sakharov Conditions in action, we test it's applicability in a quantum mechanical regime via a recent experiment using Zeeman Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) in a 87Rb vapor cell. This will allow us a first glimpse of the effect "coherences" have on the Sakharov Conditions paradigm.
Join us on Friday, Sept. 15, for this exciting presentation from Crescimanno. Lunch will be available in Hayes 216 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and the presentation will begin in Hayes 211/213 at 12:10 p.m. We hope to see you there!