Condensed Matter Theory

Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2010 to July 31st, 2011. Previous/next year.
Sep29
Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute, Canada
 Revivals of a closed quantum system and Lieb-Robinson speed
Oct13
Titus Neupert
Paul Scherrer Institut
 Zero-energy states in two-dimensional superconductors: Creating a chain of Majorana fermions
Oct27
Manas Kulkarni
Stony Brook University
 First observation of shock waves in a Unitary Fermi Gas
Nov03
Itay Hen
UC Santa Cruz
 Phase diagram of the hardcore Bose-Hubbard model with a superlattice
Nov17
Takuya Kitagawa
Harvard University
 Topological characterization of periodically driven systems
Jan26
Claudio Rebbi
Boston University, Physics Chair
12:30 PM
 Hybrid Monte Carlo simulation of graphene
Feb02
Arijeet Pal
Princeton University
11 AM
 The Many-body localization transition- Breakdown of themalization in highly excited states
Feb16
Daoxin Yao
Sun Yat-sen University, China
11:30 AM
 Magnetism and multiorbital models in the iron-based superconductors
Mar02
Torsten Clay
Mississippi State University
 The Paired Electron Crystal: order from frustration in the quarter-filled band
Mar09
Rudro Rana Biswas
Harvard University
11:00AM
 SU(2)-invariant spin liquids on the triangular lattice with spinful Majorana excitations
Apr20
Ying Ran
Boston College
2 PM
 Z2 spin liquid and chiral antiferromagnetic phase in Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice: duality between Schwinger-fermion and Schwinger-boson representations
May04
Andreas Nunnenkamp
Yale University
11 AM
 Nonlinear Optomechanics: quadratic coupling and the single-photon regime