Spring 2012
| January 4 | Fei Lin (Virginia Tech) Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Bose-Hubbard Model in the New Era: Opportunities and Challenges |
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| January 19 | Ribhu Kaul (University of Kentucky) Quantum phase transitions of square lattice SU(N) anti-ferromagnets |
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| February 6 | Sriram Ganeshan (Stony Brook University) Quasiparticle scattering from vortices in d-wave superconductors: Superflow and Berry phase contributions |
Fall 2011
| September 6 | Kostyantyn Kechedzhi (Rutgers) Origin of 1/f magnetic noise in superconducting circuits |
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| September 22 | Vito Scarola (Virginia Tech) Wavefunctions for Flat-Band Lattices |
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| October 3-4 | CMTC Fall Symposium | |
| October 24 | Chenjie Wang (Brown) How to find non-Abelian anyons? |
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| October 25-26 | Daniel Tsui (Princeton University) "More is Indeed Different: An Example from Electron Physics in Semiconductors" and "Closure on two long-standing 2D electron physics problems?" (two talks) |
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| December 13 | Zi Yang Meng (Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany and Louisiana State University) Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Correlated Electrons on Honeycomb Lattice and Interacting Topological Insulator |
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
| September 20 | Chuanwei Zhang (Washington State University) Topological insulator and superconductor in spin-orbit coupled semiconductors |
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| September 27 | Bertrand I. Halperin (Harvard) Interferometry in a Quantized Hall State |
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| October 19-20 | Walter Kohn (UCSB) A World Powered Predominantly by Solar and Wind Energy and Nearsightedness and Linear Scaling of Electronic Matter - a Closer Look (two talks) |
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| October 26 | Ludwig Mathey (NIST) Supercritical superfluid and vortex unbinding following a quantum quench |
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| November 2-4 | CMTC Fall Symposium | |
| November 9 | Ian Spielman (JQI) A Bose-Einstein condensate subject to synthetic gauge fields |
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| November 16 | Adrian Del Maestro (Johns Hopkins) Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Luttinger Liquids |
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| December 14 | Rajibul Islam (University of Maryland) Phase transition in long range quantum Ising model simulated with trapped ions |
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| December 14 | Greg Boyd (University of Florida) Theory of Iron-Based Superconductors |
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| December 15 | CMTC Fall mini-Symposium |
Spring 2010
| January 19 | Xiaoliang Qi (Microsoft Q and Stanford) Topological superconductors |
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| January 22 | Andrew James (University of Virginia) Non-Fermi liquid fixed point for an imbalanced gas of fermions in 1+ε dimensions |
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| January 26 | Jason Alicea (Caltech) Promising new directions in the quest for Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems |
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| January 29 | Edwin Barnes (University of Virginia) Introduction to AdS/CFT and its applications |
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| February 23 | Parsa Bonderson (Microsoft Q) Topological Quantum Computation & Measurement |
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| February 26 | Predrag Nikolic (George Mason University) Strongly correlated Cooper pair insulators and superfluids |
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| March 8 | David Marcos (CSIC, Madrid) Noise Correlations and Coherent Coupling in Solid State Qubits |
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| April 9 | Jun Zhu (Penn State) Scattering sources in graphene: the role of the substrate |
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| June 15 | Jens Bardarson (Berkeley) Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in disordered topological insulator nanowires |
Fall 2009
| September 28 - October 2 | CMTC Symposium | |
| October 19-20 | Phil Anderson (Princeton University) Hidden Theories and Presenting Unpopular Theories (two talks) |
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| October 30 | Mohammad Hafezi (University of Maryland) Photonic non-equilibrium quantum transport in a nonlinear optical fiber |
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| November 6 | Daw-Wei Wang (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan) Cold polar molecule: from one-, two-, to many-particle physics |
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| November 20 | Stephen Powell (University of Maryland) Kasteleyn transition of spin ice in an applied magnetic field |
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| December 18 | Kihwan Kim (University of Maryland) Quantum Frustration of Ising Spins with Trapped Ions |
Spring 2009
| April 3 | Jay Sau (University of Maryland) | |
| April 24 | Mike Peterson (University of Maryland) | |
| May 8 | Tudor Stanescu (University of Maryland) | |
| May 29 | Dimi Culcer (University of Maryland) Quantum computing with Si quantum dots -- Part I |
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| June 5 | Roman Lutchyn (University of Maryland) | |
| June 12 | Dimi Culcer (University of Maryland) Quantum computing with Si quantum dots -- Part II |
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| June 19 | Enrico Rossi (University of Maryland) | |
| July 31 | Marcos Rigol (Georgetown University) Breakdown of thermalization in finite one-dimensional systems |
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| August 3 | Liang Fu (Harvard University) Theory of Topological Insulators |
Fall 2008
| October 15 | CMTC Symposium | |
| November 3 | Jay Deep Sau (U.C. Berkeley) Theoretical Approaches to the Transport Properties of Nanostructures |
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| November 4 | Kai Sun (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking and Spontaneous Anomalous Hall Effect in Fermi Fluids |
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| November 6 | Michael Lilly (Sandia National Laboratories) Si Spin Quantum Computation in MOSFETs |
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| November 10 | Alex Levchenko (University of Minnesota) Coulomb Drag in Quantum Circuits |
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| November 24 | Chih-Chun Chien (University of Chicago) Ultra-cold Fermions with Attractive Interactions in Optical Lattices and Implications for Correlated Systems |
Fall 2007
| September 27-28 | CMTC Symposium |
Fall 2006
| November 8 | CMTC Symposium |
Spring 2006
| February 20 | Zaira Nazario (Stanford University) Possible New Physics at Quantum Critical Points: Nontrivial Topology in 2D Antiferromagnets |
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| February 23 |
Chuanwei Zhang (University of Maryland) |
Fall 2005
| August 9 | John Saunders (University of London) Quantum Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional 3He |
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| September 23 | Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland) Quantum in the Real World and the Quantum Reality |
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| September 29 | Gregory A. Feite (KITP, UCSB) Spin incoherent effects in momentum resolved tunneling and transport in Luttinger liquids |
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| October 20 |
Wayne Witzel (University of Maryland) |
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| November 10 |
Igor Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory) |
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| November 14 | Luis E. Hueso (University of Cambridge, UK) Half-Metallic Manganites, Magnetic Domain Walls, and Carbon Nanotubes |
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| December 1 | Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (Harvard University) Shaking ferromagnets with electric fields: instabilities, dissipation, and noise |
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| December 8 |
Victor Galitski (University of Virginia) |
Spring 2005
| February 17 | Wei Pan (Sandia National Laboratories) What's new in quantum Hall effect? |
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| February 24 |
Bob Joynt (University of Wisconsin) | |
| March 10 | Daniel S. Fisher (Harvard University)
Dynamics of Jamming: Glasses, Granular Media, and Simple Models |
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| April 21 |
G. George Batrouni (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis) |
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| May 5 | Francisco Guinea (Institute of Materials Science-
CSIC- Madrid, Spain) Suppression of quantum effects by metallic environments |
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| May 12 | Krishnendu Sengupta (University of Toronto) Superfluid-Insulator transition of two species ultracold bosons in an optical lattice |
Fall 2004
| October 26 | Subi Sachdev (Yale University) Quantum Vortices and Competing Order |
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| November 18 | Cristina Bena (UCLA) Spin transport in one dimensional systems |
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| November 29 | C. Morais Smith (University of Ultrecht,
the Netherlands) Pattern formation in quantum Hall systems |
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| December 2 | Belita Koiller (Instituto de Fisica - Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) Silicon based spin and charge quantum computation |
Spring 2004
| February 5 | Ying Zhang (UMCP) Interaction-driven effective mass divergence in electron liquids |
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| February 9 | Jelena Stajic (University of Chicago) From Ultracold superfluids to high temperature semiconductors |
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| February 10 | Xingxiang Zhou (University of Rochester) Quantum computation by dispersive dynamics |
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| March 3 | Gonzalo Alvarez (Florida State University) Relevance of Clustered States in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors and Other Materials |
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| March 4 | Speaker: Amir Yacoby (Weizmann Institute,
on sabbatical at Harvard University) Spin–Charge Separation and Localization in One Dimension Measured Using Momentum Resolved Tunneling |
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| March 11 | Alexander Balatsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Noise Spectroscopy of a single spin |
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| March 15 | Ashot Melikyan (Johns Hopkins University) Nodal quasiparticles in vortex lattice |
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| March 18 | Luis Brey (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales
de Madrid (CSIC)) Theory of Ferromagnetism in Double Perosvkites |
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| April 5 | Simon Kos (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Spin transport in semiconductors |
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| July 19 | Alexander Khaetskii (LMV, Munich, Germany) Spin Relaxation in Semiconductor Nanostructures |
Fall 2003
| October 9 | Kwon Park (Condensed Matter Theory Center, University
of Minnesota) Pseudospin quantum computation in semiconductor nanostructures |
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| November 6 | Chetan Nayak (UCLA) d-Density Wave Order in High T_c Cuprates |
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| November 13 | Mike Lilly (Sandia National Laboratories) Exploring interactions and disorder using transport in low dimensional semiconductor systems |
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| November 20 | Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin) Singular corrections to a Fermi liquid: 1D physics in D>1 |
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| December 4 | Jun Zhu (Cornell University) Recent Experimental Determination of Quasiparticle Transport Parameters in a 2D Electron System |
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| December 11 | Sergey Kravchenko (Northeastern University) Metal-insulator transition in 2D: history and new developments |
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| December 12 | Maxim Vavilov (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) Theory of the Oscillatory Photoconductivity of 2D Electron Gas |
Spring 2003
| January 17 | Alexander Dobin (University of Minnesota) Intrinsic Non-linear Ferromagnetic Relaxation in Thin Films |
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| January 20 | Anatoli Polkovnikov (Yale University) Dynamics of Interacting Bosons in an Optical Lattice |
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| January 22 | Gil Refael (Harvard University) Superconductivity and Dissipation in Josephson Junctions, Grains, and Nanowires |
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| January 24 | Martin Veillette (UCSB) Multicomponent Exciton Bose-Einstein Condensate in Bilayer Systems |
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| April 3 | Ramesh Mani (Harvard University) Novel radiation induced zero-resistance states in the GaAs/AlGaAs 2-dimensional electron system |
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| May 1 | Steven M. Girvin (Yale University) Prospects for Strong Cavity QED in Superconducting Electrical Circuits |
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For the earlier CMTC talks, see this page.