If you would like to give a talk on your work - in experimental or
theoretical condensed matter physics (soft or hard), on completed projects or on
work in progress - or to be put on the mailing list for these seminar announcements,
email Pouyan (pouyan@mit.edu).
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]
February 9 Claudio Castelnovo, Boston University.
What is special about Rokhsar-Kivelson Hamiltonians? Beyond the RK point: the Stochastic Matrix Form representation of quantum systems [abstract]February 16 Sung-Sik Lee, MIT.
U(1) Gauge Theory of the Hubbard Model : Spin Liquid States and Possible Application to Organic Compound [abstract]March 2 Miguel Araujo, Univ. de Evora
Weak ferromagnetism in honeycomb Hubbard planes [abstract]April 6 Nuno Peres, Boston University
Correlations and disorder in the honeycomb lattice and their possible relevance for graphite [abstract]April 13 Vincenzo Vitelli, Harvard
Theory of topological defects in curved space [abstract]April 27 Ying Ran, MIT
Large N limit of SU(2) projective construction for spin liquids, and their phase transitions [abstract]May 04 Adilet Imambekov, Harvard
Exactly Solvable 1d Bose-Fermi mixture [abstract]May 11 Yong Chen, Princeton
Pinned Quantum Electron Solid---or Eletron Supersolid? [abstract]
September 15 Steven Johnson, MIT.
Semi-analytical approaches to small perturbations in electromagnetism [abstract]September 22 Michael Levin, MIT.
String-net condensation and topological order in quantum spin systems [abstract]September 29 Ludwig Mathey, Harvard.
Luttinger Liquid of Polarons in One-Dimensional Boson-Fermion Mixtures [abstract]October 6 no seminar.
October 13 Michael Hermele, UCSB.
The structure of algebraic spin liquids and a few of its consequencesOctober 20 Jose Carmelo, MIT and Minho University, Portugal.
Finite-energy spectral and dynamical properties of the Hubbard chain: theory and experiments [abstract]October 27 Richard Metzler, MIT and NECSI.
Hog cycles, router flaps and propaganda: fighting emergent oscillations with disinformation [abstract]November 3 Patrick Underhill, MIT.
On the Coarse-graining of Polymers into Bead-spring Chains [abstract]November 10 Parisa Fallahi, Harvard.
Imaging a Single-Electron Quantum Dot [abstract]November 17 Francisco Guinea, Boston University.
Suppression of quantum effects by metallic environments [abstract]November 24 no seminar.
December 1 Dominik Zumbuhl, MIT.
Quantum Dot Spectroscopy [abstract]December 8 Fariel Shafee, Princeton.
Spin glass like properties of social clusters and their dynamics [abstract]
February 4 Alexander Finkelstein, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Hall coefficient in the presence of the electron-electron interactions [abstract]February 11 Vincent Liu, MIT.
Exotic superfluidity of cold atomic gases [abstract]February 18 Mandar Deshmukh, Harvard.
Using Electrons-in-a-box States to Study Spin-Polarized Tunneling (and some new experiments) [abstract]February 25 Martin Zwierlein, MIT.
Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules [abstract]March 3 Anatoli Polkovnikov, Harvard.
Current decay in a system of interacting bosons in one-dimensional optical lattices: imaginary versus real time semiclassics [abstract]March 10 no seminar.
March 17 Peter Virnau, MIT.
Phase behavior and nucleation in polymer solutions: A Monte Carlo investigation [abstract]March 24 no seminar.
March 31 Bruce Normand, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Novel phenomena from nonmagnetic impurities in frustrated spin systems [abstract]April 21 Dmitri Abanine, MIT.
Tunable Fermi-Edge Resonance in an Open Quantum Dot [abstract]April 28
May 5 Chung-Hou Chung, University of Toronto.
Quantum Phases of Frustrated Mott Insulators [abstract]May 26 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Harvard.
Spin and Charge Pumping by Ferromagnetic-Superconductor Order Parameters [abstract]