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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SPRING 2007
(Past years: Fall 2006, Spring 2006,
Fall 2005, 2004-2005,
2003-2004, 2002-2003)
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January 11
- Yong-Baek Kim, University of Toronto & Harvard University
- Nonequilibrium quantum criticality in open electronic systems
Host: Subir Sachdev
January 18
- Doron Bergman, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Quenching ground state degeneracy in pyrochlore antiferromagnets
Host: Subir Sachdev
Friday January 19, 1 PM, Lyman 425
- David Pekker, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Superconductivity on the Nanoscale: Quantum Interference Devices Made of Superconducting Nanowires
Host: Subir Sachdev
Wednesday January 24, 12 PM, Lyman 425
- Yonatan Dobi, Ben-Gurion University.
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On transport and other properties of disordered superconducting thin films
Host: Bertrand Halperin
January 25
- Csaba Toke, Penn State University
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Recent results on the fractional quantum Hall effect at 5/2
Host: Bertrand Halperin
Friday February 2, 2 PM, Lyman 425
- Rajdeep Sensarma, Ohio State University
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Vortices, critical currents and Fermionic bound states in
BCS-BEC crossover
Host: Eugene Demler
Wednesday February 7
- Rafi Bistritzer, Weizmann Institute of Science
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Low Dimensional Ultra-Cold Atom Interferometers
Host: Eugene Demler
February 15
- Assa Auerbach,
Technion, Israel
- Emergence of Spin-Half Fermion Vortices and The Vortex Metal
Host: Eugene Demler
Monday February 26 -- Cruft 319, 12 PM
- Bill Coish, University of Basil
- Fine-tuning the dynamics of electron spins in quantum dots
Host: Misha Lukin
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March 1
- John Weeks,
University of Maryland
- Taming Coulomb interactions in
models for ionic solutions and water
Host: Efthimios Kaxiras
March 8
- Toshiaki Iitaka , Computational Astrophysics Laboratory, RIKEN
- First principles electronic states calculations of planets, earth, and organic devices
Host: Michael Stopa
Wednesday, March 14
- Murray Batchelor, Australian National University
- Pairing and quantum phase transitions in the integrable 1D atomic Fermi gas
Eugene Demler
Thursday, March 15
- Gora Shlyapnikov ,
CNRS, Paris
- Anderson localization of expanding Bose-Einstein condensates
Eugene Demler
Friday, March 16 , 11:30 am, Jefferson 453
- Petr Khomyakov, University of Twente
- Electronic transport through quantum wires and tunnel junctions: a real-space finite-difference approach
Eugene Demler
March 22
- David Lee, Cornell University
- Exotic Magnetic Resonance Properties of Atomic H Free Radicals
Embedded in Solid H2: to BEC or not to BEC ?
Host: Paul Martin
April 5
- Franco Nori, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Superconducting Circuits as Artificial Atoms and Qubits
Host: Subir Sachdev
April 12
- Zlatko Tesanovic, The Johns Hopkins University
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Emergence of Cooper pairs and the phase diagram of cuprates
Host: Ribhu Kaul
April 17, Special seminar, 12 noon, Lyman 425
- Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside
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Deriving Marginal Fermi-liquid: Solution of a dissipative quantum xy model
Host: Subir Sachdev
April 17, Special seminar, 3 PM, Lyman 425
- Ravin Bhatt, Princeton University
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Search for Nagaoka ferromagnetism in doped
semiconductors without magnetic ions
Host: Subir Sachdev
April 19
- Peter B. Weichman, BAE Systems
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Dirty bosons: Twenty years later
Host: Ribhu Kaul
April 26
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May 3
- Martin Bazant,
MIT
- Induced-charge
electro-osmosis
Host: Efthimios Kaxiras
May 10
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