CMT Group Meeting

Schedule for 2007-2008

• Jonatan Dubi (UCSD), "Transport and other properties of disordered superconducting thin films," (Nov. 5, 2007).
• Karyn LeHur (Yale), "Entanglement entropy of noisy qubits," (Nov. 19, 2007).
• Vikram Deshpande (Caltech), "The one-dimensional wigner crystal in carbon nanotubes," (Nov. 26, 2007).
• Stefanos Papanikolaou (UIUC), "Topological phases and topological entropy of systems with finite correlation length," (Dec. 10, 2007).
• Eduardo Fradkin (UIUC), (Dec. 17, 2007).
• Ghislain Granger (Caltech), "Heat Transport in the Quantum Hall Regime," (Jan. 14, 2008).
• Alex Champagne (Caltech), "Evidence for a finite temperature phase transition in a bilayer quantum hall system," (Jan. 21, 2008).
• Lukasz Fidkowski (Caltech), "Entanglement entropy in the disordered golden spin chain," (Jan. 29, 2008).
• Shinsei Ryu (KITP), "3D topological insulators/2D Anderson delocalization correspondence," (Feb. 11, 2008).
• Vadim Oganesyan (Yale), "Quantum and classical localization of interacting particles at finite temperature," (Feb. 19, 2008).
• Marcos Rigol (UCSC), "Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems," (Apr. 21, 2008).
• Noah Bray-Ali (USC), "Entanglement entropy of nodal fermions and the fidelity metric of the metal-insulator transition," (Apr. 29, 2008).
• Andrei Bernevig (Princeton), "Jack polynomials, exclusion statistics, and new non-abelian FQHE states," (May 19, 2008).
• Adrian Feiguin (MS Station Q), Spin-incoherent behavior in one-dimensional interacting systems," (June 2, 2008).
• Karol Gregor (Caltech), "Impurities in kagome and triangular lattice spin liquids in relation to recent NMR experiments," (July 11, 2008).

Schedule for 2006-2007

• Ryan Barnett (Caltech),"Classifying novel phases of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates and their vortices," (Oct. 16, 2006).
• Israel Klich (Caltech), "Noiseless excitation of single fermions by coherent pulses," (Oct. 23, 2006).
• Karol Gregor (Caltech), "Low temperature properties of cooperative paramagnets," (Oct. 30, 2006).
• Greg Fiete (Caltech), "The spin-incoherent Luttinger liquid," (Nov. 6, 2006).
• Hanspeter Buchler (Innsbruck), "Strongly correlated 2D quantum phases with cold polar molecules," (Nov. 13, 2006).
• Waheb Bishara (Caltech), "Non-Abelian Anyon Superconductivity," (Nov. 27, 2006).
• Raoul Santachiara (ENS-Paris), "Entanglement entropy in pure and random critical 1D quantum systems," (Dec. 4, 2006).
• Kumar Raman (UIUC), "Devil's staircases, quantum dimer models, and stripe formation in strong coupling models of quantum frustration," (Dec. 11, 2006).
• Alexander Finklestein (Weizmann), "Recent progress in the theory of fermi liquid systems," (Jan. 22, 2007).
• David Pekker (UIUC), "Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of $^4$He through arrays of nano-apertures," (Jan. 24, 2007).
• Stephen Powell (Yale), "Bosons with spin in an optical lattice: excited state spectra at the superfluid-insulator transition," (Mar. 26, 2007).
• Donna Sheng (CalState Northridge), "Pseudospin ferromagnet, Odd integer quantum hall effect and quantum phase transition for Dirac fermions in graphene," (Apr. 9, 2007).
• Ching-Tzu Chen (Caltech), "Understanding the low-energy single-particle excitations in cuprate superconductors: coexisting competing orders and superconductivity," (Apr. 16, 2007).
• Lesik Motrunich (Caltech), "Critical boson liquids in two dimensions," (May 7, 2007).
• Mason Porter (Caltech), "Complex Networks: From Congress to College Football," (May 14, 2007).
• Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston U), "Breakdown of the adiabatic limit in low dimensional gapless systems," (May 29, 2007).
• Ilya Gruzberg (University of Chicago), "Anderson localization transitions, multifractal wave functions, conformal invariance, and entanglement entropy," (May 30, 2007).
• Eddy Ardone (Caltech), "Non-abelian statistics in the interference noise of the Moore-Read quantum Hall state," (June 11, 2007).
• Joost Slingerland (UC Riverside), "Finding and solving anyon models," (Aug. 20, 2007).