Conical Intersections in Physics

Jonas Larson is an associate professor at Stockholm University since 2015. He obtained his PhD in 2006 in the group of Stig Stenholm at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. During his PhD he focused on theoretical studies of cavity QED, and especially on extensions of the Jaynes-Cummings model. During a couple of years, both in Barcelona and in Cologne, he got interested in quantum many-body physics. Today he pursues research in various topics in quantum optics, such as cavity/circuit QED, cold atomic gases, open quantum systems, and quantum critical models. Erik Sjöqvist is a professor in quantum information theory at Uppsala University since 2005. He received his doctoral degree at Uppsala University in 1995 and has been post-doc at University of Durham (UK), Oxford University (UK), and the Atomic Institute in Vienna during 1996-1999. He has been assistant professor 2000-2004 and a Visiting Research Professor at Centre for Quantum Technologies at NUS, Singapore. His main research interest concerns on various aspects of geometric and topological phases in quantum mechanics with particular focus on applications in quantum information. Patrik Öhberg is a professor in Physics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1998 under the supervision of Stig Stenholm at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His main interests are in low-temperature physics at the boundary between quantum optics and condensed matter physics. He has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Leibniz University in Hannover, St Andrews University and Strathclyde University. Since 2006 he has been at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Introduction.- Theory of Adiabatic Evolution.- Conical Intersections in Molecular Physics.- Conical Intersections in Condensed Matter Physics.- Conical Intersections in Cold Atom Physics.- Conical Intersections in Other Physical Systems.