Yale Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

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

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Spring 2002

• January 17

Ying Liu, Pennsylvania State University
Zero-temperature superconductor-normal metal transition and quantum phase slips in doubly connected ultrathin cylinders.
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• January 24

Krishnendu Sengupta, Yale University.
Pairing Symmetry of quasi-one-dimensional organic superconductors
 
• Wednesday, January 30
(Note special day)
1 PM, 52 SPL
Jiangping Hu , Stanford University
4D generalization of the Quantum Hall Effect
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• February 7

Chandra Varma, Lucent Technologies
Time-reversal breaking and the theory of the gap in underdoped cuprates
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• Tuesday February 19, 1 PM, 52 SPL (note special day)

Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich
Phases and phase transitions in hardcore bosons
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• February 21

Sergey Kravchenko, Northeastern University
Metal-insulator transition and possible ferromagnetic instability in 2D
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• February 28

Ehud Altman, Technion, Israel.
Contractor Renormalization of the Hubbard model and Frustrated Antiferromagnets
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• March 7

Ari Mizel , Pennsylvania State University
Ground rules: quantum computation using a zero energy state
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• March 28

Andrew Green, Oxford University
Dissipative transport due to spinwave scattering in the quantum Hall effect
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• April 4

 
• April 11

Kwon Park, Yale University.
Bond-operator theory of cuprate superconductors
 
• April 18

Herbert Fertig, University of Kentucky
Deconfinement in the Two Dimensional XY Model
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• Wednesday April 24, 4 PM, 52 SPL
(Note special day and time)
Gonzalo Usaj, Duke University
The role of the spin in the Coulomb blockade in quantum dots
Host: Yoram Alhassid
 
• April 25

Aashish Clerk, Yale University
Resonant Cooper Pair Tunneling: Quantum Noise and Measurement Characteristics
 
• May 2

Paul Fendley, University of Virginia
Critical points in two-dimensional disordered systems
Host: Nick Read
 
• May 9

Kareljan Schoutens , University of Amsterdam
Quantum Hall states for rotating spin 1 bosons
Host: Nick Read
 
• Monday, May 13
(Note special day)
1 PM, 52 SPL
Raymond Bishop, UMIST, England
Coupled Cluster Theory of Spin-Lattice Models and Their Quantum Phase Transitions
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• May 16

Vadim Oganesyan, Princeton University
Quantum Theory of a Nematic Fermi Fluid
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• May 23

Robert Joynt, University of Wisconsin
Semiconductor Hardware for Quantum Computing
Host: Steve Girvin