X. International Conference on Quantum Fluid Clusters /
Nature / InternationalConference
Language / English / Nb of attendeesréel ou attendu / 65
Location / Paul SabatierUniversity, Toulouse, France
Porteur(s)
avec courriel / Nadine Halberstadt
Marius Lewerenz
Alexandra Viel
NEXT Laboratory(ies) involved / - IRSAMC
- LCAR
Dates / June 7-11, 2015
URL link /
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Event scope and topicsQFC2015 is the Xth edition of the International conferences on Quantum Fluid Clusters. It is scheduled from Sunday, June 7th (afternoon) to Thursday, June 11th (morning) 2015 at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.
The scope of the conference has been rapidly expanding since its first edition in Trento, Italy, in 1989, attracting a wide range of interests. Fundamental aspects focus on the nature and manifestations of superfluidity in finite size systems: temperature, Landau critical velocity, quantum vortices, dispersion curve, heat capacity... In parallel a rapidly increasing range of applications are being developed, based on the remarkable properties of these media, most notably 4He nanodroplets: very low temperature (~0.4 K), superfluidity, high heat capacity resulting in fast cooling properties, weak chemical interaction with “solutes”. A non-exhaustive list includes:
• design and study of clusters or nano-objects with exotic configurations: high dipole states, clustering of metallic atoms with control over high or low spin states, and resulting magnetism and possible superconductivity
• Biomolecules and molecules of biophysical interest, polyatomic molecules: high resolution spectroscopy and analysis of their different conformers
• Study of chemical reactions with very low activation barriers or under extreme conditions, of interest to, e.g., astrochemistry
•Study of fragmentation induced by molecular ionization, Coulomb explosions and charge transfer in pure and doped nanodroplets
The 2015 Toulouse conference will particularly focus on fundamental properties of quantum fluid clusters and of microsolvation in these systems, as well as on new frontiers of spectroscopy and dynamics of dopant species in/on helium droplets. Both experimental and theoretical aspects will be covered.
The conference will feature invited and contributed talks. There will also be 2 poster sessions on Monday and Tuesday evenings with a buffet dinner to foster a lively debate among the participants. Some of the poster submissions will be selected for short hot topic talks.
There will be no registration fee. In order to encourage the participation of young researchers (PhD students, postdocs), about a dozen fellowships will be allocated .