BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68318a4b4da6d DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180323T114500 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180323T114500 URL:/institute-for-quantum-computing/events/rac1-journa l-clubseminar-series-21 SUMMARY:RAC1 Journal Club/Seminar Series CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nSANGIL KWON: PHASE IN SUPERFLUIDS AND SPONTANEOUSL Y BROKEN GAUGE\nSYMMETRY\n\nIt is often said that superfluids (including s uperconductors) can be\ndescribed by a macroscopic quantum wavefunction a nd their phase\ntransition can be understood based on the concept of spont aneously\nbroken gauge symmetry. This statement is not\, however\, trivial at all.\nIn this seminar\, I will discuss some conceptual problems that\n stem from applying the concept of spontaneously broken gauge\nsymmetry  to superfluids.\n DTSTAMP:20250524T085851Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR