Condensed Matter Theory

Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2013 to July 31st, 2014. Previous/next year.
Sep04
Tom Iadecola
Boston University, Physics
Rotating Kekulé mass in graphene: a 'hydrogen atom' for non-equilibrium quantum systems
Sep11
Marin Bukov
Boston University
Bose-Fermi Mixtures: a Mean-Field Study
Sep11
Adrian Hutter
University of Basel
Enhanced thermal stability of the toric code through coupling to a bosonic bath
Sep18
Ted Pudlik, Charles Fisher
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Sep25
Dr. Kipton Barros
LANL
Efficient Langevin simulation of coupled classical fields and fermions Host: Luca D'Alessio
Sep30
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne
Special day, time: Monday, Sept. 30 at 2 PM
The Landau criterion for superfluidity is neither necessary nor sufficient Host: David Campbell
Oct09
Alan Gabel
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Oct16
Dries Sels
Universiteit Antwerpen
Wigner distribution functions for complex dynamical systems Host: Luca D'Alessio
Oct23
Luca D'Alessio
Boston University/Penn State University
Event at 11:00 AM
CMT Group Meeting
Nov06
Victor Gurarie
University of Colorado - Boulder
Quenched p-wave topological superfluid Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov13
Yariv Kafri
Technion
Statistical physics of fluctuations away from equilibrium Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Dec11
Dr. Michael Kolodrubetz
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan15
Javad Noorbakhsh
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan22
Cheng-Wei Liu
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan29
Tatsuhiko Ikeda
University of Tokyo and Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan30
Titus Neupert
Princeton University
Note: Special Day-Thursday; 3:00 PM
Simple manipulation of Majorana zero modes on a necklace
Feb05
Dmitry Abanin
Perimeter Institute
Many-body localization: Local integrals of motion, area-law entanglement, and quantum dynamics Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb12
Prof. Stefan Kehrein
Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen
Undephasing the generalized Gibbs ensemble Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb19
Alex Lang
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Feb26
Dr. David Luitz
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Toulouse
Shannon-Renyi entropies and participation spectra in quantum many body systems Host: Thomas Lang
Mar10
Derek Lee
Imperial College, London
Note Special Day - Monday; Special Time - 2 PM
Dynamics of Thermalization in nanoscale systems Host: Luca D'Alessio
Mar12
Dr. Paula Bienzobaz and Dr. Pedro Gomes
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Mar19
Dr. Thomas Lang
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Apr02
Jung Hoon Han
Sungkyunkwan University
Emergence of Orbital Chirality in Multi-orbital Surface Bands Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr07
Amir Bar
Weizman Institute
Note special day, time: Monday at 2:30 PM
Mixed order phase transitions in one dimension Host: Yariv Kafri
Apr09
Shainen Davidson
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Apr16
Dr. Michael Kolodrubetz
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Apr23
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
Note special time: 10:30 AM
CMT Group Meeting
Apr30
Prof. Ribhu Kaul
University of Kentucky/Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
May07
Maksym Serbyn
MIT
How to probe many-body localized phase? Host: Claudio Chamon
May14
Naomichi Hatano
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
Arrow of time in quantum mechanics Host: Anders Sandvik
May28
Dr. Garry Goldstein
Rutgers University
Generalized Gibbs ensemble (GGE) and applications for integrable systems Host: Claudio Chamon