Emergent Behaviours in the Quantum World

Panel discussion with Nobel Laureates and Eminent Scientists, featuring
- Professor Duncan Haldane | Nobel Prize Physics 2016
- Professor Klaus von Klitzing | Nobel Prize Physics 1985
- Professor Bertrand Halperin | Wolf Prize Physics 2003
Moderator: Professor Antonio Castro Neto (Director, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS)
Abstract
We live in a quantum age. Quantum computers will be part of everyday life and expand our computer capacity beyond imagination. Quantum computation (QC) together with artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to change life on this planet in a drastic and permanent way. Just imagine an AI robot with a QC central processing unit walking around us and the consequences of that. However, technological progress will depend on the development of quantum engineering and understanding of quantum phenomena. The quantum Hall effect is one of the most extraordinary examples of quantum behaviour at macroscopic level, namely, the electrical conductivity of a two-dimensional metal becomes quantised to universal values when subjected to an external magnetic field. In this Public Panel on “Emergent Behaviours in the Quantum World”, the experts discuss the broad impact of quantum Hall effect from basic science to modern technology and how it can provide us with insights on the possible outcomes of a quantum age.