Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at noon on Thursdays in Lyman 425.

Please contact the host for more information, or if you would like to meet a speaker.

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Fall 2005-2006

September 22

Subir Sachdev , Harvard University

Breakdown of the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm at quantum phase transitions

Abstract

Host: Bertrand Halperin

September 29

Kun Yang , Florida State University

Find Your Partner or Expel Your Competitor: Exotic Pairing States in Fermionic Superfluids with Unbalanced Pairing Species

Abstract

Host: Bertrand Halperin

October 6

Aravinthan Samuel , Harvard University

How worms navigate thermal gradients

Abstract

Host: David Nelson

October 13

Bernd Rosenow , The University of Cologne

Linear and nonlinear conductivity of disordered Luttinger liquids

Abstract

Host: Bertrand Halperin

October 20

Cynthia Reichhardt , Los Alamos National Laboratory

Local probes at the nanoscale: Entanglement, melting, and jamming transitions

Abstract

Host: Jennifer Hoffman

October 27

Nai-Chang Yeh , Caltech

Effects of competing orders and quantum criticality on the quasiparticle tunneling spectroscopy and vortex dynamics of Cuprate superconductors

Abstract

Host: Eugene Demler

November 3

Igor Aleiner , Columbia University

Metal-insulator transition in a weakly interacting many-electron system with localized single-particle states

Abstract

Host: Bert Halperin

November 10

H. Takayanagi , NTT, Japan

CANCELED

Host: Charles Marcus

November 17

Ganpathy Murthy , University of Kentucky

Interplay between Kondo screening and Stoner interactions in a quantum dot

Abstract

Host: Bertrand Halperin

December 1

Gora Shlyapnikov , The University of Amsterdam

Title to be announced

Host: Eugene Demler

December 8

Karyn Le Hur , Université de Sherbrooke

Electron life-time in quantum wires: Definition and Observability

Abstract

Host: Eugene Demler

December 15

Cirano De Dominicis , CEA, Saclay

Microscopic approaches to the Ising Spin Glass

Abstract

Host: Paul Martin

January 12

Roger Melko , Oak Ridge National Laboratories

Monte Carlo Simulations of Quantum Spin Models on Frustrated 2D Lattices

Abstract

Host: Adrian Del Maestro

January 19

Carlos Bolech , Harvard University

Bosonization approach to mixed-valence quantum impurity models

Abstract

Host: Subir Sachdev

January 26

To Be Announced