<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Journal Club Tomorrow (Wednesday) 3:30 in the MOB Theory room</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">This weeks paper</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.132501" target="_blank">http://journals.aps.org/prl/<wbr>abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.<wbr>117.132501</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">with an accompanying Physics Viewpoint (this might be a good place to start):</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/106" target="_blank">http://physics.aps.org/<wbr>articles/v9/106</a><br><br>Questions to guide your reading:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1) What is the difference between a local and non-local interaction?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2) What is the many-body method used in this work?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">3) What is a scattering length?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">4) What is a quantum phase transition?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">5) What is the meaning of the parameter lambda used in this paper?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">6) At which order of chiral effective field theory to they work?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>Questions for discussion:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1) Are the results credible?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2) What should we take away from the claim that "nature is near a quantum phase transition"?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">3) How can this study help us understand clustering in nuclei?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">4) Why are people so excited about Efimov physics?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">5) In the end, is this useful or just cute?</div></div>
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