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 more info, or if you would like to meet a speaker.

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Spring 2004

January 15

Emil Yuzbashyan, Princeton University

Extracting Hidden Symmetry from the Energy Spectrum

Host: Steven Girvin

January 22

Victor M. Galitski, University of Maryland

The impact of magnetic impurity interaction on the conductance of disordered metals

Host: Steven Girvin

January 29, 2:30 PM (NOTE SPECIAL TIME)

Jack Harris, Harvard University

Cold atoms without lasers and laser cooling without atoms

Host: David DeMille

February 5

February 12

Predrag Nikolic, MIT

Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnets: A Quest for Unconventional Quantum Phases

Host: Subir Sachdev

February 19

Saar Rahav, Technion, Israel

The quantum Kapitza pendulum

Host: Yoram Alhassid

February 26, 2:30 PM (NOTE SPECIAL TIME)

Eric Akkermans, Technion, Israel

Mesoscopic physics of photons in cold atomic gases

Host: Michel Devoret

March 11, 1:00 PM

Denis Gorokhov, Cornell University

Electron-electron interaction and spin-orbit scattering in metal nanoparticles

Host: Yoram Alhassid

March 25

March meeting in Montreal

April 1

Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University

Quantum Frustration of Decoherence in Some Open Quantum Systems

Host: R. Shankar

April 8

Oleg Starykh, Hofstra University

A one-dimensional view of frustrated quantum magnets.

Host: Subir Sachdev

April 15

Eugene Demler, Harvard University

Superconductor to Insulator Transition in One Dimensional Systems in the Presence of Dissipation

Host: Subir Sachdev

April 22, 2:30 PM (NOTE SPECIAL TIME)

Dragomir Davidovic , Georgia Tech

Spin Dependent Quantum Interference Effects in Granular Systems

Host: Robert Schoelkopf

April 29

Subir Sachdev, Yale University

Breakdown of the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm at quantum phase transitions

Host: R. Shankar