Journal club and informal seminars (fall 2005 and spring 2006)

To suggest an interesting work for discussion in our Journal club, or to schedule an informal seminar please contact  Eran Lebanon: lebanon@physics.rutgers.edu.

Date
time/place
Speakers
Title
Sep 22,
2005
Journal club

4:45 pm
coffee room

Piers Coleman


Eran Lebanon 
M. Neumann, J. Nyeki, B. P Cowan, and J. Saunders,
"Bilayer helium-3: a new two dimensional heavy fermion system with quantum criticality," proc. LT 24, Orlando Florida, (2005).
M. Garst,  P. Wolfle,  L. Borda, J. von Delft,  L. Glazman,
"Energy-resolved inelastic scattering off a magnetic impurity," cond-mat/0507431.
Sep 29
canceled


Oct 6,
2005
Journal club

4:45 pm
coffee room
Lorenzo DeLeo

Ping Sun
T.M. Rice and H. Tsumetsuru, "A simple model for the checkerboard pattern of modulated hole densities in underdoped cuprates," cond-mat/0509382.
F. Levy, I. Sheikin, B. Grenier, and A. D. Huxley,
"Magnetic Field-Induced Superconductivity in the Ferromagnet URhGe", Science 309, 1343.
Oct 13
postponed


Oct 20,
2005
Informal seminar
4:45 pm
room 385
Wayne Saslow
Texas A&M
Theory of hydrodynamics of supersolid
Wednesday
Oct 26, 2005
Informal seminar
10:30 am
room 385
David DiVincenzo
IBM
The IBM Josephson junction qubit
Nov 3,
2005
Journal club

4:45 pm
coffee room
Markus Mueller

Kristjan Haule
"Electrostatic Tuning of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions," Kevin A. Parendo, K. H. Sarwa B. Tan, A. Bhattacharya, M. Eblen-Zayas, N. E. Staley, A. M. Goldman (Minneapolis), Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 197004 (2005)
"Orbital Selective Mott transition," theory: cond-mat/0503764, cond-mat/0504040, cond-mat/0506151cond-mat/0107095; experiments: PRL 93, 177007 and PRL 84, 2666.
Nov 10,
2005
Journal club
4:45 pm
coffee roo
Lara Faoro
"Fault-tolerant quantum computation with long-range correlated noise",
by Dorit Aharonov, Alexei Kitaev and John Preskill, quant-ph/0510231.
Nov 17, 2005
Informal seminar
4:45 pm
room 385
Michael Feigelman
Superconductivity in disordered thin films: giant mesoscopic fluctuations

PRL95, 057002 (2005).
Nov 24
Thanksgiving


Dec 1,
2005
Informal
seminar
4:45 pm
room 385
Masud Haque
BCS-like pairing in Feshbach-resonant trapped atomic gases with unequal species populations
Dec 15, 2005
Informal
seminar
4:45
room 385
Pankaj Mehta
Non-equilibrium Bethe-Ansatz




Feb 2,
2006
Informal
seminar
4:30
room 385
Philip Kim
Columbia
Quantum Electrodynamics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphite
Mar 9,
2006
Informal
seminar
4:30
room 385
Sam Carr
ICTP
Spinless Fermionic ladders in a magnetic field
Mar 16
Marchmeeting


Mar 23,
2006
Informal
seminar
4:30
room 385
Michael Hinczewski
Bosphorus University
New Phases, Superfluid Weights, and Free Carrier Densities: Renormalization-Group Theory of Electronic Models
Mar 30,
2006
Informal
seminar
4:30
room 385
Jong Han
SUNY
Buffalo
Mapping steady-state non-equilibrium to equilibrium