Tuesday seminar
The seminar takes place on Tuesdays at 12:30pm in our seminar room (Elings Hall 2250), unless otherwise noted below.Fall 2009 schedule
9/8 Roger Melko, University of Waterloo
Entanglement Entropy in Heisenberg ladders: Adherence of the Neel groundstate to an Area Law
9/15 Michael Hermele, University of Colorado
Beyond valence bonds with ultracold atoms:
Chiral spin liquids and other surprises in SU(N) quantum magnetism
9/22 Woowon Kang, University of Chicago
Interferometry and Interaction Effects in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
9/29 John Martinis, UC Santa Barbara
Violation of Bell's inequality in superconducting qubits
10/6 Bas Overbosch, University of Leiden
Probing the neutral edge velocity for fractional quantum Hall states
10/13 Ravin Bhatt, Princeton
From Nagaoka ferromagnetism to spins on demand
10/20 Jason Alicea, Caltech
Interlayer Coherent Composite Fermi Liquid in Quantum Hall Bi-layers and Beyond
10/27 Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
Spin excitations with Fermi statistics in frustrated antiferromagnets
11/3 Chris Laumann, Princeton University
Random quantum satisfiability: statistical mechanics of quantum optimization
11/12 Mikhail Feigelman, Landau Institute, Moscow
Quantum spin liquid with a Fermi-surface: exact solution of a Kitaev-type model
11/19 Roman Lutchyn, University of Maryland
Topological phases of matter and Majorana fermions
12/1 Maissam Barkeshli, MIT
TBA
Winter 2010 schedule
1/12 Markus Mueller, ICTP, Trieste
1/19 N.N.
2/2 Andreas Läuchli, MPI-PKS Dresden
3/23 Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT
Spring 2009 schedule
4/7 Steve Simon, University of Oxford
Geometry of topological lattice models
4/14 Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich
The supersolid phase of Helium-4: to flow or not to flow
5/1 Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Controlling quantum decoherence in solid state qubits
5/5 Nick Bonesteel, Florida State University
Bond Fluctuations in Random Singlet Phases
5/12 Eytan Grosfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Non-Abelian anyons: when Ising meets Fibonacci
5/19 Jiannis Pachos, University of Leeds
The Drunken Slalom
5/26 Israel Klich, University of Virginia
On the stability of topological phases
6/2 Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Applications of quantum conditional mutual information to quantum information and topological entanglement entropy
6/9 Joel Moore, UC Berkeley
"Applications" of Entanglement to Static and Dynamic Quantum Criticality
6/16 Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto
Quantum Spin Liquid and Continuous Mott Insulator-Metal Transition in Three Dimensions
6/18 Joost Slingerland, University of Maynooth and DIAS
Topological Bose condensation and fractional quantum Hall states
6/23 Gunnar Möller, University of Cambridge
Skyrmions in the Moore-Read state
Winter 2009 schedule
1/20 Didier Poilblanc, Toulouse
Progress on doped Quantum Dimer Models
2/3 Andreas Läuchli, MPI-PKS Dresden
Spin Nematic Phases in low-dimensional Quantum Magnets
2/10 Roderich Moessner, MPI-PKS Dresden
Deconfinement diagnostics, symmetric sponges and topological phases
2/23-2/27 KITP conference on New Directions in Low-Dimensional Electron Systems.
2/25 Hong-Chen Jiang, Tsinghua University
DMRG Study of 2D Frustrated Spin Systems and 2D Tensor Product State Method
3/5 Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
The Anatomy of Fractional Quantum Hall States
3/10 Lukasz Fidkowski, Caltech
Permutation Symmetric Critical Phases in Disordered Non-Abelian Anyonic Chains
Seminars 2008.
Seminars 2007.