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Specialised Seminar: "From integer partition to Bose-Einstein condensate and its fluctuation" by Krzysztof Pawłowski (CFT, PAS, PL)

Join us for a specialised QUBITS Seminar, where Professor Krzysztof Pawłowski (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences) will explore how a classic problem in number theory connects to ultracold gases, introducing Bose–Einstein condensation, atom-number fluctuations, and their implications for quantum technologies.

Info about event

Time

Tuesday 12 May 2026,  at 14:15 - 16:00

Location

1525-626

Organizer

Quantum Campus Aarhus (QCA)

QUBITS specialised seminar format

Coffee and cake will be served from 14:00. The seminar begins at 14:15 with a 45-minute talk, followed by questions and discussion.

Registration is not required. However, if you would like to receive future QUBITS Seminar invitations directly by email, please sign up here.

About the talk

The seemingly simple mathematical problem of partitioning a natural number into its summands remained unsolved until the 20th-century work of Hardy and Ramanujan. This problem is now fundamentally linked to the observed properties of ultra-cold gases.

This presentation will explain that connection, introduce the phenomenon of Bose- Einstein condensation, and discuss the fluctuations in the number of atoms that constitute it. The talk will conclude with a brief overview of matter-wave applications in quantum technologies and the potential impact of these fluctuations on such systems.

About the speaker

Professor Krzysztof Pawłowski is a theoretical physicist at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CFT, PAS). His research is in ultracold gases, with a focus on quantum dipolar droplets, statistics of Bose–Einstein condensates, and entangled states in Bose–Einstein condensates.

He received his PhD degree in Warsaw in 2012 and has held postdoctoral positions in Stuttgart and at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris. He became an Associate Professor in 2015 and a CFT Professor in 2019.

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