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Speaker: Prof. Prineha Narang, from Harvard University
Time: Thursday, October 25, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: BRIM 311
Today, we imagine a world where we can engineer materials and devices atom-by-atom. Exciting discoveries during the past few decades in quantum science and technology have brought us to this next step in the quantum revolution: the ability to fabricate, image and measure materials and their properties at the level of single atoms is almost within our grasp. Yet, at...
Speaker: Prof. Joe Trodahl: MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington
Time: Thurs, Oct. 18, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: BRIM 311
Controlling the flow of electronic spin in addition to the charge promises speed and power demand advantages. However, there are as yet few “spintronic” devices on the market, in part due to a lack of intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors that would permit full exploitation of the coupled spin/charge technology. To date the only full series of such materials are the mononitrides...
Speaker: Bernhard Keimer, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Time: Oct 1, 2018 :: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Brimacombe 311
We will describe how resonant elastic and inelastic x-ray scattering (REXS and RIXS) yield comprehensive, energy- and momentum resolved information about the ground state and excitation spectra of quantum materials. The unprecedented sensitivity of RIXS now allows experiments on dispersive excitations in monolayers and microcrystals of complex quantum materials that were hard to imagine just a few years ago....
Speaker: Prof. T. Venkatesan, National University of Singapore
Time: Sep 17, 2018 :: 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Brimacombe 311
Memory devices are responsible for a significant fraction of the energy consumed in electronic systems- typically 25% in a laptop and 50% in a server station. Reducing the energy consumption of memories is an important goal. For the evolving field of artificial intelligence the compatible devices must simulate a neuron. We are working on three different approaches towards these problems-...
Speaker: Dr. Nik Hartman
Time: Sept. 6, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Seminar Room 311 - Brimacombe Building
Abstract : Measuring the entropy of an electronic state is a powerful tool for identifying its underlying microscopic character. Such measurements are typically based on bulk properties that are straightforward to observe in macroscopic samples but exceedingly difficult to access in mesoscopic systems that may consist of just a few electrons or quasiparticles. Taking advantage of a well-known Maxwell...
Speaker: Pr. Marcel Franz from UBC
Time: Thu, 2018-09-13 02:00 - 03:00
Location: Brimacombe 311
Inclusion of topological phenomena in condensed matter physics over the past 10 years ushered a revolution in this field. As a result of the new theoretical insights entire classes of materials with exotic properties have been discovered, including topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl semimetals as well as topological superconductors containing Majorana fermions. In this talk I will give a brief...
Speaker: Kyle Wamer
Time: Tues, August 21, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: BRIM 311
A lattice of interacting Majorana modes can occur in a superconducting film on a topological insulator in a magnetic field. The phase diagram as a function of interaction strength for the square lattice was analyzed recently using a combination of mean field theory and field theory and was found to include second order phase transitions. One of these corresponds to...
Speaker: Jae-Hoon Park, Max Planck POSTECH Center for Complex Phase Materials
Time: Aug 2, 2018 :: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: Brimacombe 311
Large spin-orbit coupling makes the magnetic eigenstate of the total angular momentum state with an admixed spin state and induces unusual magnetic behaviors. In cooperation with the crystal field, it could introduce the Kramers doublet in the magnetic ion site. Then the magnetism is described with the so-called spin-orbit coupled isospin 1/2, and the system often displays novel quantum magnetism...
Speaker: Janez Bonca, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics University of Ljubljana and J. Stefan Institute
Location: BRIM 311
In the first part [1] I will show that electron-magnon interaction delocalizes the particle in a system with strong charge disorder. The analysis is based on results obtained for a single hole in the one–dimensional t–J model. Unless there exists a mechanism that localizes spin excitations, the charge carrier remains delocalized even for a very strong charge disorder and shows...
