R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2009 Fall Semester
August 2009
- Thursday, August 13th
- Dimi Culcer, Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland
- Singlet-triplet qubits in silicon quantum dots
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith
September 2009
- Thursday, September 10th
- Matthew Neeley, University of California - Santa Barbara
- Emulating the dynamics of a quantum spin using a superconducting phase qudit
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, September 17th
- Frank Wilhelm, University of Waterloo & ICQ
- Optimal quantum gates in imperfect qubits
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, September 24th
- Kumar Raman, University of California - Riverside
- Biot-Savart correlations in layered superconductors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Natalia Perkins
October 2009
- Thursday, October 1st
- Xincheng Xie, Oklahoma State University
- Dephasing and disorder effects in quantum spin Hall effect
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert Joynt
- Thursday, October 8th
- Alex Levchenko, Argonne National Lab
- Transport properties of superconductors near critical temperature: conductivity, magneto-tunneling, noise and relaxation
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
- Monday, October 12th
- Marija Vucelja, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Weak compressibility of surface wave turbulence
- 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith
- Tuesday, October 20th
- Dmitrii Maslov, University of Florida
- Delocalization by disorder: non-metallic transport in layered metals
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov
- Thursday, October 22nd
- Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
- Fluctuations, Response, Entropy, and "Temperature" in Granular Packings
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith
November 2009
- Thursday, November 5th
- Yaroslaw Bazaliy, University of South Carolina
- Invariant form of spin-transfer switching condition
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Natalia Perkins
- Thursday, November 12th
- Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
- Oxide Nanoelectronics
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Rzchowski
- Wednesday, November 18th
- Michael Gershenson, Rutgers University
- Small Josephson Arrays as Protected Qubits
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, November 19th
- Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratory
- Silicon metal insulator semiconductor nanostructures for solid-state quantum computing
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, November 26th
- Thanksgiving
December 2009
- Thursday, December 3rd
- HongWen Jiang, UCLA
- Recent Experiments to Probe Individual Spins of Few-Electron Silicon Quantum Dots
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith