Experience the World’s Fastest Visible and Thermal Cameras

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Program 12:00 PM: Seminar 1:00 - 3:00 PM: Live Demos & Pizza Location: Brimacombe 311 Overview This showcase will provide an overview of High Speed & Thermal Imaging, with an introduction to the factors that need to be considered for a successful set up and highlight latest advances. The presentation will discuss the different sensor […]

CM Seminar: Zac Ward – Disorder as an Order Parameter

Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Room 311, 2235 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zac Ward - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Titel: Disorder as an Order Parameter Abstract: The way that materials behave can simply be thought of as a response to what the electrons in the material are doing. Controlling the atoms’ arrangement to one another in a crystal lattice changes where the electrons reside and how they […]

CM Seminar: Professor Romain Vasseur – Anomalous Diffusion in Quantum Spin Chains

Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Room 311, 2235 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Professor Romain Vasseur – University of Massachusetts, Amherst Title: Anomalous diffusion in quantum spin chains  Abstract: High-temperature quantum transport is usually assumed to be incoherent and diffusive.  In this talk, I will explain how anomalous transport in quantum spin chains can emerge from proximity to special integrable limits, due to a hierarchy of long-lived quasiparticle […]

CM Seminar: Joyce Poon: Visible-light Silicon Integrated Photonics for Future Computing

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Joyce Poon - University of Toronto Title: Visible-light Silicon Integrated Photonics for Future Computing Abstract: The emerging demands of computing require hardware advances to realize new types of computing architectures and interfaces. Foundry silicon photonics leverages the maturity of microelectronics manufacturing to fabricate photonic integrated circuits. Today, silicon photonics is mostly used in the short-wave infrared […]

CM Seminar: Professor Kai-Mei C Fu – Quantum Point Defects: Can These Defects Be Less Defective?

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Professor Kai-Mei C Fu -  University of Washington  Title: Quantum point defects: Can these defects be less defective? Abstract: Point defects in crystals are the solid state analog to trapped ions. Thus these “quantum defects”, which can be integrated into solid-state devices, have gained popularity as qubit candidates for scalable quantum networks. In this talk, […]

Special Seminar: Thin film lithium niobate photonic platform

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Marko Loncar, Harvard University Abstract: I will present thin film lithium niobate photonic platform, featuring strong light confinement and dense integration, that has the potential to revolutionize optical communications, microwave and quantum photonics. Electro-optic modulators, frequency combs, photon pair sources, and their integration with lasers and detectors, will be discussed.

CM Seminar: Long Ju – Electron Correlation and Coupling with Phonon in the Trilayer Graphene/hBN Moire Superlattice

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Long Ju - MIT Physics Department  Title: Electron Correlation and Coupling with Phonon in the Trilayer Graphene/hBN Moire Superlattice Abstract: ABC-stacked trilayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moiré superlattice (TLG/hBN) has emerged as a playground for correlated electron physics. A spectroscopy study of this system is, however, challenging due to the device configuration. In this talk, I will […]

CM Seminar: Thomas Scaffidi – Spread and Erase – How Electron Hydrodynamics Can Eliminate the Landauer-Sharvin Resistance

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Thomas Scaffidi - University of California Irvine Title: Spread and Erase - How Electron Hydrodynamics Can Eliminate the Landauer-Sharvin Resistance Abstract: What is the ultimate limit of conductance of a metallic device of lateral size W? In the ballistic limit, the answer is the Landauer-Sharvin conductance, which is associated with an abrupt reduction of the […]

New Frontiers in Quantum Materials Research (Online)

The Rice University Center for Quantum Materials and the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute at the University of British Columbia will host an online workshop titled New Frontiers in Quantum Materials Research on Dec 12-13.   Sessions & Speakers Strange Metals & Topology Jie Shan (Cornell), Doug Bonn (UBC), Joern Bannies (UBC), Emilia Morosan (Rice) Flat […]

CM Seminar: Mark Rudner: “The Lindblad Quantum Master Equation: Not Just for quantum Optics Anymore”

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Prof. Mark Rudner - University of Washington Title: “The Lindblad Quantum Master Equation: Not Just for quantum Optics Anymore" Abstract: With the exception of the universe as a whole, the evolution of a quantum system is generically non-unitary due to the coupling between the system and its environment. In quantum optics, the powerful framework of […]

Special Seminar by Kyle Monkman – Symmetry Protection in Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians 

Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Room 311, 2235 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Kyle Monkman, The University of Manitoba Talk title: Symmetry Protection in Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians  Abstract: Symmetry-protected topological insulators are protected by both the symmetry and by the system’s band gap. This protection means that certain properties of the system remain unchanged by deformations of the (Hermitian) Hamiltonian. In my PhD work, we have […]

CM Seminar: Alannah Hallas: Entropy Engineering and Tunable Magnetic Order in the Spinel High Entropy Oxide

BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Alannah Hallas: Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Title: Entropy engineering and tunable magnetic order in the spinel high entropy oxide Abstract: The field of high entropy oxides (HEOs) flips traditional materials science paradigms on their head by seeking to understand what properties arise in the presence of profound configurational disorder. This disorder, which emerges as the […]