Second Annual Greater Boston Area Quantum Matter Meeting
Saturday, May 9, 2009

The goal of this meeting is to provide an informal and supportive forum for discussing research on quantum systems: strongly correlated systems, atomic and optical systems, and mesoscopics. All students, postdocs, and faculty are encouraged to give a talk --- discussion of work in progress and incompletely-formed ideas is welcome. Regular updates will be posted to this webpage, as our organization moves ahead. For now, please register below (the sooner, the better).

The meeting will be held at the Boston University Physics Department, 590 Commonwealth Ave. (near Kenmore square), in Room SCI 107. There will be refreshments from 9:00 to 9:30, and the first session will start at 9:30 am.

This meeting is modeled after the Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting, which is held in the fall, and is now in its tenth year.

This meeting is an Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) affiliated event.

Poster for the meeting

Schedule

9:00 - 9:30 am       Bagels, coffee, and tea  
9:30 - 10:30 am Session I  
9:30 - 10:00 am Cenke Xu, Harvard nematic and magnetic orders in Fe-based superconductors
10:00 - 10:30 am Contributed talks  
10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee and informal discussions  
11:00 - 12:10 am Session II  
11:00 - 11:30 am Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT Tensor network renormalization approach to strongly correlated systems
11:30 - 12:10 am Contributed talks  
12:15 - 1:20 pm Lunch and Informal Conversations  
1:20 - 2:20 pm Session III  
1:20 - 1:50 pm Contributed talks  
1:50 - 2:20 pm Markus Greiner, Harvard Quantum gas microscope
2:20 - 2:50 pm Coffee and informal discussions  
2:50 - 3:40 pm Session IV  
2:50 - 3:10 pm Contributed talks  
3:10 - 3:40 pm Eric Hudson, MIT Visualizing the nanoscale electronic landscape of the cuprates
3:40 - 4:00 am Session V  
3:40 - 4:00 pm Contributed talks  

Contributed talks

PDF or Powerpoint files of the contributed talks should be emailed before the meeting to bahbarmeeting@gmail.com. This will help minimize computer setup time between talks.

Session I

  1. Yang Qi, Harvard, "Global Phase Diagram for Magnetism and Lattice Distortion of Fe-pnictide Materials"
  2. Darius Torchinsky, MIT, "Nonequilibrium quasiparticle dynamics in single crystals of Ba0.6 K0.5 Fe2As2"
  3. Francis Niestemski, BC, "STM study of the Iron Superconductor Parent Compound"
  4. Georgios Koutroulakis, Brown, "Coexistence of Superconducting and Magnetic Order in CeCoIn5"
  5. Matthew Enjalran, Southern Connecticut State University, "Quantum Monte Carlo study of the Hubbard model on a triangular lattice"
  6. Gayanath Fernando, UConn, "Nagaoka instabilities and coherent pairing in small Hubbard clusters"

Session II

  1. Mark Rudner, Harvard, "Topological Transition in a Non-Hermitian Quantum Walk: a new test for quantumness in multilevel systems"
  2. Brian Swingle, MIT, "Entanglement, Renormalization, and Holography"
  3. Andrea Velenich, BU, "Non-abelian anyons in quantum loop lattice models"
  4. Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, BU, "Lenosky's energy and the phonon dispersion of graphene"
  5. Dima Abanin, Princeton, "Charge 2e Skyrmions in Bilayer Graphene"
  6. Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Harvard, "Spin-polarized photoemission from graphene: Joint effect of sublattice interference and spin-orbit coupling to substrate"
  7. Ben Feldman, Harvard, "Landau Level Splitting and Divergent Resistance Near the Charge Neutrality Point in Suspended Bilayer Graphene"
  8. Chang-Yu Hou, BU, "Corner Junction as a Probe of Helical Edge States"
  9. Bernhard Wunsch, Harvard, "Few-electron physics in a nanotube quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling"
  10. Armin Rahmani, BU, "Junction conductance tensor from the ground state energy"

Session III

  1. Maxim Olshanii, UMass Boston, "Two atoms in a waveguide as an example of an exactly solvable quantum-chaotic system"
  2. Rudra Kafle, WPI, "Effect of nonlinearity on the performance of a BEC-based free-oscillation atom Michelson interferometer in a weakly confining magnetic trap"
  3. Vanja Dunjko, UMass Boston, "Gell-Mann--Low renormalization group applied to the correlation function of Lieb-Liniger gas"
  4. Egor Babaev, UMass Amherst, "Non-Meissner electrodynamics in multicomponent condensates"
  5. Ebubechukwu Ilo-Okeke, WPI, "Population distribution of atoms in the output ports of atom Michelson interferometer"
  6. Kris Van Houcke, UMass Amherst, "Thermodynamics of the unitary Fermi gas"
  7. Amy Cassidy, UMass Boston, "Threshold for Chaos and Thermalization in the 1D mean-field Bose-Hubbard Model"

Session IV

  1. Claudia De Grandi, BU, "Linear and sudden quench near a quantum critical point"
  2. Lode Pollet, Harvard, "Absence of direct superfluid to Mott insulator transition in disordered Bose systems"
  3. Shusa Deng, Dartmouth, "Dynamical non-ergodic scaling in continuous finite-order quantum phase transitions"
  4. Felix Werner, UMass Amherst, "Efimov states with strong three-body losses"

Session V

  1. Liang Ren Niestemski, BC, "Valence bond glass -- A unified theory of electronic disorder and pseudogap phenomena in high temperature superconductors"
  2. Lars Fritz, Harvard, "Quantum oscillations in the specific heat of underdoped hole-doped cuprates"
  3. Jenny Hoffman, Harvard, "The Vortex Liquid State of Bi2Sr2CuO6"
  4. Claudio Chamon, BU, "Groundstatable fermionic wavefunctions and their associated many-body Hamiltonians"
  5. Subir Sachdev, Harvard, "A theory of the underdoped cuprates"
Updated 7 May 2009

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Directions

Directions to the Boston University Physics Dept. may be found here.

  • The BAHBAR meeting will take place at the Metcalf Science Center (SCI) (590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston) in room 107.
  • Closest T Stop: Blandford Street Station, Green line B

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