Unboxing Quantum: Spooky Action
Virtual eventSpooky Action at a Distance Quantum Entanglement and Spooky Action won the Nobel Prize in physics this year. Once considered a boogieman in physicists' closets, quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest, most unintuitive phenomena in the natural world. Dubbed “spooky action at a distance” by Einstein himself, this quantum behavior puzzled scientists for years […]
Experience the World’s Fastest Visible and Thermal Cameras
BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaProgram 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, CanadaZac 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, CanadaProfessor 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, CanadaJoyce 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, CanadaProfessor 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, CanadaSpeaker: 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, CanadaLong 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, CanadaThomas 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, CanadaProf. 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, CanadaSpeaker: 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 […]