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October 21.
Chung-Hou Chung,
National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan.
(Seminar)
Electronic transport through quantum dots in the Kondo regime
[abstract]
October 28.
Moshe Goldstein,
Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
(Seminar)
Population switching and charge sensing in quantum dots: A case for a quantum phase transition
[abstract]
November 11.
Rahul Nandkishore,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Competing orders in bilayer graphene at charge neutrality
[abstract]
November 18.
Abolhassan Vaezi,
MIT.
(Seminar)
TBA
December 2.
Zohar Nussinov,
Washington University in St. Louis.
(Seminar)
TBA
August 4, 12:15 PM.
Lih King Lim,
University Utrecht, Netherlands.
(Seminar)
Cold Atoms in 2D Optical Lattices under Staggered Rotation
[abstract]
February 12, 1:30 PM.
Ying Ran,
U C Berkeley.
(Seminar)
Helical Metal Inside a Topological Band Insulator
[abstract]
March 3, 11:15 PM.
Anton Akhmerov,
Leiden University.
(Seminar)
How to send current through a neutral mode
[abstract]
March 3, 12:30 PM.
Yusuke Nishida,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Unitary Fermi gas in the epsilon expansion
[abstract]
March 10.
Samuel Bieri,
ETH Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Seminar)
Spectral asymmetries in resonating-valence-bond states for cuprate superconductors
[abstract]
March 17.
Abolhassan Vaezi,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Slave boson approach to the Hubbard Model
[abstract]
April 7.
Maissam Barkeshli,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Towards a theory of topological phases in quantum Hall systems: the pattern of zeros approach
[abstract]
April 21.
Brian Swingle,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Picturing Entanglement
[abstract]
May 5.
Zheng-Yu Weng,
Tsinghua University.
(Seminar)
Spin-roton excitations in the cuprate superconductors
[abstract]
October 15
Florian Kämpfer,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Low-energy effective field theory investigation of lightly doped antiferromagnets
[abstract]
October 22
Wing-Ho Ko,
MIT.
(Journal Club)
Functional Renormalization Group Study on Iron Pnictides
[reference]
October 29
ZhengCheng Gu,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Matrix Product States and Tensor Product States: A quantum information perspective
[abstract]
November 5
Adilet Imambekov,
Yale.
(Seminar)
Universal theory of nonlinear Luttinger liquids
[abstract]
November 12
Brian Swingle,
MIT.
(Journal Club)
Stability of the U(1) spin liquid with spinon Fermi surface in 2+1 dimensions
[reference]
November 19
Hong Yao,
Stanford.
(Seminar)
Spin liquids from exactly solvable 2D quantum spin models
[abstract]
December 3
Saeed Saremi,
MIT.
(Seminar)
Competition between the Kondo screening and magnetic ordering in the honeycomb lattice
[abstract]
September 11 Tarun Grover,
MIT.
Spin-nematics and Dimerization in 2D spin systems
[abstract]
September 18 David Eichenberger,
University of Fribourg .
Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in the two-dimensional Hubbard model: a variational study
[abstract]
September 25 Dmitry Abanin,
MIT .
Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene p-n Junctions
[abstract]
October 02 David Pekker,
Harvard University .
Phase slip avalanches in the superflow of $^4$He through an array
of nanosize apertures
[abstract]
October 09 Kittiwit Matan,
MIT .
Neutron scattering studies of the spin correlations in the frustrated kagome lattice antiferromagnet
[abstract]
January 24 Ying Ran, MIT.
Spin liquid on Kagome lattice
[abstract]
February 7 Zheng-Cheng Gu, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University.
Charge dynamics in a doped Mott insulator
[abstract]
April 11 Adrian Del Maestro, Harvard.
Thermoelectric transport in the vicinity of a superconductor-metal quantum phase transition in nanowires
April 18 Michael Hermele, MIT.
TBA
April 25 Mark Rudner,
MIT.
Current-Induced Cooling of Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots
[abstract]
May 1 Dmitri Abanin,
MIT.
Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in Graphene
[abstract]
May 8 Christian Schunck,
CUA/MIT.
Pairing and Superfluidity in a Strongly-Interacting Imbalanced
Fermi Gas
[abstract]
May 15 Shinsei Ryu,
KITP.
Quantum transport of non-interacting 2D Dirac fermions
[abstract]
May 29 Markus Mueller,
Harvard University.
Quantum electron glasses and electron assisted hopping
[abstract]
June 5 Predrag Nikolic,
Harvard University.
Universal phase diagram of interacting quantum liquids near the
unitarity limit
[abstract]
June 12 Mohammad Hafezi,
Harvard University.
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Optical Lattices
[abstract]
June 19 [time changed: 12 noon] Arindam Ghosh,
Indian Institute of Science.
Magnetism in a tunable Kondo-lattice in semiconductor-based two-dimensional electron systems
[abstract]
DATE CHANGE: July 2 (Monday) [time changed: 1:30 pm] Babak H. Seradjeh,
UBC.
Electron fractionalization in condensed matter systems with weak interactions and time-reversal symmetry
[abstract]
September 20 Jinwu Ye, The Pennsylvania State University.
Ginsburg-Landau theory of supersolid
[abstract]
September 27 no seminar.
October 4 no seminar.
October 11 Jacob Taylor,
MIT.
Quantum control of coupled spins in a mesoscopic environment
[abstract]
October 18 no seminar.
October 25 Ying Ran, MIT.
Spectral weight dichotomy as an intrinsic property of t-t'-t''-J model
[abstract]
November 8 Chang-Yu Hou, Boston University.
Electron fractionalization in two-dimensional graphene-like structures
[abstract]
November 29 Adilet Imambekov, Harvard.
Interference of fluctuating condensates
[abstract]
December 6 George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Gossamer condensates and spin orbit localization in f-electron materials
[abstract]
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 12pm Room 12-132
February 1 Sung-Sik Lee, MIT.
Fractionalization in a strongly correlated many-body system; Emergent gauge theory in exciton bose condensate
[abstract]
February 22 Pavel Kraikivski, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces
Polymer manipulation and motility on substrates
[abstract]
March 1 Prof. Zheng-Yu Weng,Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University
Nature of upper and lower pseudogap phases
[abstract]
March 8 Predrag Nikolic, Harvard
Effective Action for Vortex Dynamics in Clean d-wave Superconductors
[abstract]
March 22 Anton Burkov, Harvard
Superfluids, supersolids and Mott insulators on the triangular lattice
[abstract]
April 12 Olivia White, MIT
Growing Length Scale(s) and Spin Glass Ground State(s)
[abstract]
April 19 Elena Gubankova, MIT
Stability conditions and Fermi surface topologies in a superconductor
[abstract]
April 26 Anders Sandvik, Boston University
Valence-bond-solid phases and quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional antiferromagnets
[abstract]
May 3 Peter Richard Crompton, Hamburg University
The Mermin-Wagner theorem and quantum criticality in physical quasi-1d systems
[abstract]
May 17 Amihay Hanany, MIT
Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories
[abstract]
September 14 Shan-Wen Tsai, Boston University.
Renormalization-group approach to interacting fermions coupled to phonons
[abstract]
September 21 Marin Soljacic, MIT.
Novel devices based on photonic band gap microcavities
[abstract]
September 28 Ryan Lee Barnett, Harvard University.
Coexistence of gapless excitations and commensurate charge-density wave in the 2H-transition metal dichalcogenides.
[abstract]
October 5 Kevin Beach, Boston University.
Simulating quantum systems in the valence bond basis
[abstract]
October 12 Su-Peng Kou, MIT.
Mutual Chern-Simons theory for Z2 topological order and doped Mott insulator
[abstract]
October 19 Jonathan Keeling, MIT.
BEC-BCS crossover in a system of microcavity polaritons
[abstract]
October 26 Tai-Kai Ng, HKUST.
The pseudo-gap state as a Fermi liquid superconductor with F_1 -> -1
[abstract]
November 2 Dima Abanin, MIT.
Fermi-Edge Resonance and Tunneling in Nonequilibrium Electron Gas
[abstract]
November 9 Peter Bermel, MIT.
Properties of radiating pointlike sources in cylindrical omnidirectionally reflecting waveguides
[abstract]
November 16 Ludwig Mathey, Harvard.
Noise Correlations in one-dimensional ultra-cold atom systems
[abstract]
Special Date: Tuesday, November 29 Andreas Glatz, Argonne National Lab.
Non-adiabatic AC-Dynamics of Disorderd Elastic Systems
[abstract]
November 30 Arkady Shekhter, The Weizmann Institute of Science.
Spintronics without magnets: Spin-optics and Diffuse emission
[abstract]
December 7 Michael Hermele, MIT.
Fate of the Josephson effect in thin-film superconductors
[abstract]
[Informal Seminar Archive: Fall 2002 – Spring 2005]
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