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Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics was established in 2012 by the University of Edinburgh to seek answers to fundamental questions about the universe. We do this by creating opportunities for researchers and students from around the world to come together to formulate new theoretical concepts, taking us beyond the limitations of current paradigms.

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Analogue Simulation with Quantum Nano-Electronic Circuits—Andrew MITCHELL

Analogue simulation provides a way to solve hard computational problems by building physical devices that mimic those problems. The history of such devices goes back at least 2000 years to the intricate clockwork mechanisms used to make complex astronomical predictions, before the advent of all-purpose digital computers. But today there ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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The trouble with free energy landscapes—Tanja SCHILLING

In Kramers’ theory of chemical reaction rates, classical nucleation theory, phase field modeling, and the modeling of biomolecular kinetics, the dynamics of coarse-grained variables is treated as a stochastic process driven by the gradient of a thermodynamic potential. We will discuss how these models can be motivated based on the ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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