Duncan Haldane public lecture Audimax, Technische Universität Dresden; Free admission, English-language talk

Duncan Haldane public lecture Audimax, Technische Universität Dresden; Free admission, English-language talk

Nobel Prize winner Duncan Haldane at TU Dresden — School of Science — TU Dresden

Start and end time 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM

Nobel Prize winner Duncan Haldane at TU Dresden

The physicist Duncan Haldane was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 together with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.” On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at 7 p.m., he will give a public lecture at the Audimax of Technische Universität Dresden entitled “Quantum Entanglement, Topological Quantum States, and the ‘Second Quantum Revolution’.”The lecture will be held in English, and admission is free.

Quantum Entanglement, Topological quantum states, and the “Second Quantum Revolution”Modern quantum mechanics is 100 years old, but has continued to deliver surprises. While the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle was central to the “first quantum revolution”, in recent years the strange property of quantum entanglement has come to be recognized as the key feature of quantum mechanics, and is at the heart of recent attempts to create new quantum technologies for information processing and high-precision sensors, that some call a “second quantum revolution”. Among the surprises are “topological quantum states of matter”, that may allow “topologically-protected” processing of quantum information, stored as entanglement patterns.

Last modified: May 02, 2026