Stony Brook University
7:30 pm
Harriman Hall, P137
Friday, March 8, 2024
Electron Spin
Prof. Laszlo Mihaly
The existence of electron spin and the magnetic moment has been first suggested in 1925. Three years later Paul Dirac discovered that these properties of the electron are the natural consequences of a theory that merges Einstein's relativity and Schrodinger's quantum mechanics. We will discuss how does the electron spin appear in various, seemingly distant, areas of physics: in magnetism, in quantum information processing and in Electron Spin Resonance, a widely used measurement technique in physics, chemistry and biology.
Laszlo Mihaly received his PhD in 1977 at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. In addition to being a staff member at the Central Research Institute (Budapest), he held positions at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, Universite Paris Sud in Orsay, and at UCLA. He joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook in 1989. He is an experimental condensed matter physicist, with research interests in superconductivity, magnetism, electrical transport and electron spin resonance.
