Fall 2010 Condensed Matter Seminar

All seminars are Thursday at 12pm in the Gamow Tower 11th floor commons room, unless otherwise noted

To receive email announcements for these seminars, or for other questions, please contact Mike Hermele

Date Title Speaker
8/26/10
 Wigner crystallization of triplon bound states in a Shastry-Sutherland spin tube
Salvatore Manmana
JILA
9/2/10
 Fluid phases of nano-carbon in true solvents

Matteo Pasquali
Rice University
9/9/10
 No seminar - electron journal club
9/16/10
 Breakdown of diffusion, equilibration rates and negative absolute temperatures for ultracold atoms in optical lattices

Stephan Mandt
University of Cologne
9/23/10
 Open

 
9/30/10
JILA, 11am
 Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Single-Site Addressing in Strongly Interacting Quantum Gases in Optical Lattices
Immanuel Bloch
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
10/7/10

Bragg spectroscopy detection of density waves, valence bond solids, supersolids and their excitation spectra of ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Jinwu Ye
Pennsylvania State University
10/14/10
Reading Rm.
 Open
10/21/10
 Topological superconductors and nodal lines in non-centro symmetric superconductors

Shinsei Ryu
University of California Berkeley
10/28/10
 Topological Defects in Insulators and Superconductors
Charles Kane
University of Pennsylvania
11/4/10
 Unitary Fermi gas and beyond

Monday
11/8/10
Reading Rm.
1pm.

 Quantum Monte Carlo studies on correlated electrons on honeycomb structures
Ziyang Meng
Universitaet Stuttgart
11/11/10
 Open

 
11/18/10
Reading Rm.
 Entanglement spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall states and Quantum spin chains

Ronny Thomale
Princeton University
11/25/10
 No seminar - Fall break
12/2/10
 Fermions at unitarity: local operators, operator product expansion and
dynamic structure factor
Dam Thanh Son
University of Washington
Friday
12/3/10
2pm.
 Ultrafast magnetic and materials dynamics probed using coherent X-rays
Stefan Mathias
JILA, University of Colorado and NIST
12/9/10
 Band archeology in topological insulators: The effects of non-topological metallic bands on topological edge states
Gil Refael
California Institute of Technology

Fall 2009 Seminar

Spring 2010 Seminar

Condensed matter seminars before Fall 2009.