The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121. For more information, contact Diego Dalvit.
Date |
Speaker/Affiliation |
Topic (link to abstract) |
October 22, 2008
12:30 PM |
Igor Dzyaloshinskii, University of California
Technical Host: Peter Milonni |
Ferromagnets in external electric field |
October 16, 2008
12:30 PM |
Haitao Quan, T-DO |
Microscopic Work Distribution of Small Systems in Quantum Isothermal
Processes and the Minimum Work Principle
|
October 7, 2008
12:30 PM |
Adam Steele, Georgia Tech
Technical Host: Xinxin Zhao |
Optical Nuclear Physics Step 1: Trapping Th3+ |
October 2, 2008
12:30 PM |
A. M. Rey, JILA and University of Colorado, Department of Physics, University of Colorado
Technical Host: Eddy Timmermans |
Exploring quantum magnetism in optical super-lattices |
September 4, 2008
12:30 PM |
Yves Pomeau, ENS Paris and CNLS Ulam Scholar
Technical Host: David Roberts |
Quantum tunneling of optical solitons |
August 28, 2008
12:30 PM |
Steven T. Flammia, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Technical Host: Jim Harrington |
"One-way quantum computing in the optical frequency comb"
|
August 21, 2008
12:30 PM |
Augusto Smerzi, BEC CNR-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Trento, Italy |
Entanglement and Heisenberg Limit in Quantum Interferometry |
August 14, 2008
12:30 PM |
Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook
Technical Host: Razvan Teodorescu |
Allowed charge transfers between coherent conductors driven by a time-dependent scatterer |
August 7, 2008
12:30 PM |
James Hartle, UCSB
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
The Quasiclassical Realms of this Quantum Universe |
July 31, 2008
12:30 PM |
Sergio Rica,
Universidad de Chile
Technical Host: David Roberts |
Theory of Supersolids |
July 24, 2008
12:30 PM |
Matthew Davis,
University of Queensland
Technical Host: David Roberts |
Spontaneous vortices in the formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate |
July 17, 2008
12:30 PM |
Fernando Lombardo,
University of Buenos Aires
Technical Host: Diego Dalvit |
Environmentally induced correction to the geometric phase in
a two-level system |
July 10, 2008
12:30 PM |
Felipe da Rosa,
T-13 |
Casimir Repulsion and Metamaterials |
June 12, 2008
12:30 PM |
Marco Merkli,
Memorial University
Technical Host: Gennady Berman
|
Resonance method and decoherence |
May 22, 2008
12:30 PM |
Yves Pomeau,
ENS Paris and CNLS Ulam Scholar
|
Quantum Braking |
May 15, 2008
12:30 PM |
Jun Ye,
University of Colorado
Technical Host: Xinxin Zhao
|
Precision Quantum metrology |
May 8, 2008
12:30 PM |
Viatcheslav Dobrovitski,
Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory
Technical Host: Khaled Alhassanieh
|
Decoherence and control of single central spins in solid state systems |
May 1, 2008
12:30 PM |
Michael Zwolak,
T Division, LANL
|
Finite Representations of Continuum Environments |
April 24, 2008
12:30 PM |
Mark M. Wilde,
University of Southern California
Technical Host: Jim Harrington
|
Quantum Coding with Entanglement |
April 17, 2008
12:30 PM |
Razvan Teodorescu,
T-13 Complex Systems, LANL
|
Quantum information processing with cold Fermi gases in the fast
pairing regime |
April 10, 2008
12:30 PM |
Dr. L. Fedichkin,
Michigan State University
Technical Host: Dima V. Mozyrsky
|
Quantum Walks of Electron in Quantum Dot Nanostructures |
April 3, 2008
12:30 PM |
Graeme Smith,
IBM
Technical Host: Jon Yard
|
Capacities of a Quantum Channel with Symmetric Assistance |
March 27, 2008
12:30 PM |
Daniel A. Steck,
Oregon Center for Optics and Department of Physics
Technical Host: Salman Habib
|
Quantum Measurement and Control of Atomic Motion |
March 20, 2008
12:30 PM |
Andris Ambainis,
University of Latvia
Technical Host: Matthew Hastings
|
Quantum Random Walks and Quantum Algorithms |
March 6, 2008
12:30 PM |
Peter Engels,
Washington State University
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
|
Nonlinear Dynamics in BECs ~ Faraday waves, solitons and quantum shock
|
Feb. 29, 2008
12:30 PM |
Dieter Meschede,
University of Bonn
Technical Host: Malcolm Boshier
|
Taming Atoms with Light |
Feb. 28, 2008
12:30 PM |
Juan Pablo Paz,
University of Buenos Aires |
Dynamics of the Entanglement Between Two Oscillators in the Same Environment |
Feb. 14, 2008
3 PM |
Serge Haroche,
Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Paris |
Quantum Non Demolition Counting of Photons and Schrödinger Cat Tomography in Cavity QED Experiments |
Feb. 7, 2008
12:30 PM |
Andrei Chitov
Brookhaven National Laboratory
|
Atomic Collapse in Graphene |
Jan. 31, 2008
12:30 PM |
Stefanos Papanikolaou
University of Illinois
|
Topological Phases and Topological Entropy of Systems with Finite Correlation Length |
Jan. 25, 2008
12:30 PM |
Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Harvard University
|
Quantum Algorithms for the Simulation of Classical and Quantum Systems: Protein Folding and Chemical Reaction Dynamics |
Jan. 22, 2008
1 to 3 PM |
Thomas Dittrich
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
|
Semiclassical Propagation in Phase Space |