{"id":1130,"date":"2014-07-22T23:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2014-07-22T23:25:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:25:15","slug":"haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/&amp;t=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/&amp;title=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/&amp;title=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I just came back from Bristol, where I participated in an international conference celebrating the scientific legacy and achievements of Balazs L. Gyorffy. You can read the abstract of my talk below or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/files\/2014\/07\/Abstract_template.pdf\">download the PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.21cm\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\" style=\"margin-top: 0.21cm;margin-bottom: 0.21cm\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">J. Quintanilla<\/span><sup>1,2 <\/sup><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><i><sup>1<\/sup>SEPnet and Hubbard Theory Consortium, School of Physical Sciences,<br \/>\nUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1WX, U.K.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><i><sup>2 <\/sup>ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford,<br \/>\nDidcot, OX11 0QX, U.K.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"de-DE\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.42cm;font-weight: normal\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span lang=\"en-US\">E-mail: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"mailto:j.quintanilla@kent.ac.uk\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span lang=\"en-US\">j.quintanilla@kent.ac.uk<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal;line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">One of Balazs Gy\u00f6rffy&#8217;s latter scientific loves was semiclassics [1,2]. As a PhD student in Bristol (1997-2001) I was exposed to this point of view and I was supposed to have been exploiting it in my research. I didn&#8217;t, though, and as a result I&#8217;ve been haunted by semiclassics ever since. For this I consider myself very fortunate. I will describe how, later on, a semiclassical approach allowed me and Chris Hooley to understand a crucial feature of optical lattices [3]; relate a personal anecdote involving muonium were semiclassics also played a key role [4]; and, finally, present a new, semiclassical theory [5] predicting bound states between artifical monopoles and 2D electrons \u2013 a new twist on a century-old problem initiated by Poincar\u00e9 [6].<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>References<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal;line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">P. Miller and B. L. Gy\u00f6rffy, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 7 5579-5606 (1995).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal;line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">K. P. Duncan and B. L. Gy\u00f6rffy, Annals of Physics <b>298<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">, 273-333 (2002).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal;line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">C. Hooley and J. Quintanilla, Physical Review Letters <b>93<\/b>, 080404 (2004).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal;line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">S. F. J. Cox, Reports on Progress in Physics <b>72<\/b>, 116501 (2009).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal;line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">A. L. Baskerville and J. Quintanilla, article in preparation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-weight: normal;line-height: 0.56cm\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">H. Poincar\u00e9, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris <b>123<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">, 530<\/span> (1896).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/&amp;t=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/&amp;title=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2014\/07\/22\/haunted-by-semiclassics-from-optical-lattices-through-muonium-to-magnetic-monopoles\/&amp;title=Haunted by Semiclassics: from optical lattices through muonium to magnetic monopoles' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from Bristol, where I participated in an international conference celebrating the scientific legacy and achievements of Balazs L. 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