Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Seminars

Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars below 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 2006

(Past years: Spring 2006, Fall 2005, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003)

September 21, CRUFT 318, 1:30 PM (Note special location and time)

Pavel Grigorev, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory: New features of magnetic quantum oscillations in strongly anisotropic and heavy-fermion compounds

Host: Eugene Demler

September 28, CRUFT 318 (Note special location)

Hans-Andreas Engel, Harvard University: Out-of-plane spin polarization from in-plane electric and magnetic fields

Host: Subir Sachdev

October 5

Andrew Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews: Formation of a nematic fluid at high fields in Sr₃Ru₂O₇

Host: Subir Sachdev

October 12

Stephen Powell, Yale University: Excited state spectra at the superfluid-insulator transition

Host: Subir Sachdev

October 19

October 26

Piers Coleman, Rutgers University: Heavy Electron Quantum Criticality: signs of a new universality

Host: Subir Sachdev

November 2

Haim Sompolinsky, Hebrew University and Harvard University: Dynamic Mechanisms of Working Memory

Host: Subir Sachdev

November 9

Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT: Projective symmetry, quantum order, and quantum phase transitions

Host: Subir Sachdev

November 16

Lev Ioffe, Rutgers University: The challenge of error correction in quantum computation

Host: Misha Lukin

Tuesday November 21, 12:00 PM (Note special time)

Jason Alicea, University of California, Santa Barbera: Order-by-disorder and "spiral spin liquid" physics in frustrated diamond lattice antiferromagnets

Host: Bertrand Halperin

Tuesday November 21, Pierce 209, 2:00 PM (Note special location and time)

Lukasz Fidkowski, Stanford University: Hard Hexagons and the Doubled Fibonacci Theory

Host: Bertrand Halperin

Wednesday November 22, 2:00 PM (Note special time)

Cenke Xu, University of California, Berkeley: Quantum phase transition, self-duality, boson liquid, and dimensional reduction in systems with one dimensional gauge symmetries

Host: Bertrand Halperin

November 30

Adilet Imambekov, Harvard University: Interference of fluctuating condensates

Host: Eugene Demler

December 7

Anthony Zee, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and University of California, Santa Barbara: Topology, Matrix Field Theory, and RNA Structures

Host: David Nelson

Friday December 8, 2:00 PM (Note special time)

Eran Sela, Weizmann Institute for Science, Israel: Fractional Shot Noise in the Kondo Regime

Host: Bertrand Halperin

December 14

Stefan Rotter, Yale University: Mesoscopic Transport in the Quantum-to-Classical Crossover

Host: Subir Sachdev

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