Lab Home | Phone | Search
	Center for Nonlinear Studies
	Home  ▶ People   Current   Executive Committee   Postdocs   Visitors   Students   Research   Publications  ▶ Conferences   Workshops   Sponsorship  ▶ Talks   Seminars   Postdoc Seminars Archive   Quantum Lunch   Quantum Lunch Archive   P/T Colloquia   Archive   Ulam Scholar     Postdoc Nominations  ▶ Student Requests   Student Program  ▶ Visitor Requests   Description   Past Visitors  ▶ Services   General     History of CNLS     Maps, Directions   CNLS Office   T-Division   LANL				Wednesday, August 03, 201610:00 AM - 11:00 AMCNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690) Seminar Does an Inelastic Event Randomize the Phase? Walter A. HarrisonDept. of Applied Physics, Stanford University Experiments on tiny conductors show fluctuations of current versus voltage which are interpreted as interference between different electron paths. Their disappearance above low temperatures is frequently attributed to inelastic events randomizing the relative phases. We show that this interpretation is not consistent with a more complete model system, which requires something more like a collapsing wave function. This same model also sheds light on the question: how long does it take for n electron to tunnel? Host: John Willis