Kaho Saito
CM Seminar – Benjamin Frandsen
Talk title: From Quantum Magnets to Magnetic Thermoelectrics: Short-Range Spin Correlations and the Secrets They Keep Speaker: Benjamin Frandsen, Brigham Young University Abstract: Short-range magnetic correlations have been increasingly recognized in recent years for their importance in contexts as widely varied as geometrically frustrated magnetism and functional magnetocaloric materials. Neutron scattering provides experimental access to […]
Vedika Khemani: Non-unitary dynamics via spacetime duality
Virtual eventhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/66879995529?pwd=dHpQb25LSGVZK3ozY243em5tenRWQT09 Meeting ID: 668 7999 5529 Passcode: 113399 Abstract: The addition of non-unitary ingredients to many-body quantum dynamics has led to a series of exciting developments in recent years, including new out-of-equilibrium entanglement phases and phase transitions enabled by quantum measurements. I will present recent work in which we show that a duality transformation between space and time on one […]
Abhay Pasupathy: Recent progress in moiré materials
Virtual eventhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/66879995529?pwd=dHpQb25LSGVZK3ozY243em5tenRWQT09 Meeting ID: 668 7999 5529 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University Abstract: I will discuss two recent sets of experiments from my group on moiré materials. In the first experiment, I will discuss transport experiments on twisted bilayers of the monolayer semiconductor WSe2 (Wang et al, Nature Materials 19, 861 (2020) and […]
Cory R. Dean: Towards realizing twistronics on demand
Virtual eventTitle: Towards realizing twistronics on demand Speaker: Cory R. Dean, Department of Physics, Columbia University Abstract: The ability to isolate atomically thin crystals, such as graphene, boron nitride, and the transition metal dichalcogenides, and then mechanically layer them to form new heterostructures has driven a recent revolution in materials design. These layered structures are held […]
Sinéad Griffin: Searching for New Matter
Virtual eventTitle: Searching for New Matter Speaker: Sinéad Griffin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Abstract: The past decade has seen a huge surge of interest in matter that cannot be described by our standard theories such as Landau-Ginzburg theory or the Standard Model. For example, the theoretical proposal and subsequent experimental realization of topological phases in […]
Ben Breitung: Exploring High-Entropy Materials for Electrochemical Applications
Virtual eventhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/66879995529?pwd=dHpQb25LSGVZK3ozY243em5tenRWQT09 Meeting ID: 668 7999 5529 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Ben Breitung, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Title: Exploring High-Entropy Materials for Electrochemical Applications Abstract: High-entropy ceramics are a novel materials class with rapidly increasing significance since their discovery in 2015. Their unique crystal structure and the enormous compositional freedom allows tailoring these compounds […]
Claire Donnelly: Three-dimensional nanomagnetism: from textures in the bulk to 3D magnetic nanostructures
Virtual eventhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Claire Donnelly, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids Abstract: Three dimensional magnetic systems promise significant opportunities for applications, for example providing higher density devices and new functionalities associated with complex topology and greater degrees of freedom . With the recent development […]
Christoph Renner: Electronic Vortex Core Structure of a d-Wave High Temperature Superconductor
Virtual eventhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399 Speaker Christoph Renner, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Science at University of Geneva Abstract: High temperature superconductivity (HTS) in copper oxides keeps challenging our understanding. Among the outstanding puzzles is the electronic structure of the Abrikosov vortex cores. The fundamental excitations bound to magnetic vortices in type-II […]
Jennifer Cano: Higher magic angles in twisted bilayer graphene and topological twistronics
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Jennifer Cano, Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University Title: Higher magic angles in twisted bilayer graphene and topological twistronics Bio: Jennifer Cano is an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University and an Affiliate Associate Research Scientist at the Flatiron Institute. She earned a PhD […]
Eliška Greplová: Quantum Matter Meets Artificial Intelligence
Virtual eventhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Eliska Greplova, Assistant professor at the Department of Quantum Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology Abstract: The fields of condensed matter, artificial intelligence and quantum computing have independently experienced a number of breakthroughs in the last decade. In this talk, I am going provide an […]
Christian Schneider: Exciton-Polaritons and their condensates in microcavities loaded with atomically thin crystals
Virtual eventhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Christian Schneider, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have emerged as a new platform for studies of tightly bound excitons and many-body excitations in ultimately thin materials. Their giant dipole coupling to optical fields makes them very appealing for implementing novel […]