Yale Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1 PM on Thursdays in Room 52, Sloane Physics Lab.

Please contact the host for more information, or if you would like to meet a speaker.

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Fall 2007

September 20

Claudio Chamon, Boston University

Irrational vs. rational charge and statistics in two-dimensional quantum systems [Abstract]

Host: Karyn Le Hur

September 27 at 2:30 pm

Leonid Levitov, MIT

Atomic collapse and supercritical impurities in graphene

Host: Leonid Glazman

October 4

Eric Akkerman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Photon localization and Dicke superradiance in atomic gases: crossover to a "small world" network [Abstract]

Host: Michel Devoret

October 11

J.M. Geremia, University of New Mexico

Using Real-Time Quantum State Estimation and Feedback to Implement a Cat-State Measurement without the Cat-State [Abstract]

Host: Jack Harris

October 18

Jason R. Petta, Princeton University

Controlling quantum coherence in semiconducting nanostructures [Abstract]

Host: Leonid Glazman

October 25

Robert Clark, University of New South Wales (Australia)

Recent Progress Towards a Solid State Quantum Computer in Silicon [Abstract]

Host: Robert Schoelkopf

Wednesday, October 31 at 1:00 in 107 Mason Lab

Philip Kim, Columbia

Electric Transport in Graphitic Carbon Materials [Abstract]

Host: Daniel Prober and Karyn Le Hur

November 1

Erkki Thuneberg, Yale University (visiting from University of Oulu, Finland)

Pi-states and dissipative currents in superfluid 3He Jospehson junctions [Abstract]

Host: Steven Girvin

November 8

Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University

Slow dynamics in gapless low-dimensional systems [Abstract]

Host: Leonid Glazman

November 15

Jean-Michel Raimond, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Trapping atoms on a superconducting chip [Abstract]

Host: Jack Harris

November 29

Karyn Le Hur, Yale University

Entanglement entropy of Noisy Qubits [Abstract]

Host: Leonid Glazman

December 6

Dmitri Abanine, MIT

Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene p-n Junctions [Abstract]

Host: Leonid Glazman

Tuesday, December 11 in SPL 52 at 2:00 PM

Rodrigo Pereira, University of British Columbia

Dynamical correlations of spin-1/2 chains [Abstract]

Host: Leonid Glazman

Friday, December 21 in SPL 52 at 1:00 PM

Pouyan Ghaemi, MIT

Higher angular momentum Kondo liquids [Abstract]

Host: Leonid Glazman

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