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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Superconductors, Material Atomics, and Electron Oscillators - Dr. Inna Vishik, UC Davis DSci #180
Description: Dr. Inna Vishik is a professor of Physics at UC Davis, where her lab studies the spectroscopic properties of exotic condensed matter. We dig down into how she sees the atomic landscapes she studies, the significance of mathematical descriptions that show up all over the place, harmonic oscillators at the scale of an electron, and why physics is perfectly happy to deal in abstractions, even when better models might be available.
(00:00:00) Go!
(00:00:18) Who is Inna Vishik?
(00:02:33) Condensed Matter Physics
(00:10:07) Atomic shape changes in conduction
(00:14:53) Wavelength & Momentum in Electronics
(00:22:13) Simplifications as Good Enough
(00:29:16) Material Models of the Atom
(00:33:50) Atom as...