The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.
The organizing committee includes Malcolm Boshier (P-21), Adolfo del Campo (T-4 & CNLS), Michael Di Rosa (C-PCS), Armin Rahmanisisan (T-4 & CNLS), Changhyun Ryu (P-21) , Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4), Rolando Somma (T-4), Christopher Ticknor (T-1), and Wojciech Zurek (T-4).
For more information, or to nominate a speaker, contact Adolfo del Campo.
To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Ellie Vigil.
Date |
Speaker/Affiliation |
Topic (link to abstract) |
Nov. 14, 2013
4:00 PM |
Dana Anderson,
JILA, University of Colorado
Technical Host: Malcolm Boshier |
Atomtronics: An Ultracold Matter Analog of Electronics |
Oct.29-Nov.8, 2013
|
Julian Sonner,
MIT
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Introduction to holographic duality and some condensed matter applications |
Oct. 31, 2013
12:30 PM |
Xiwen Guan,
Australian National University
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Interacting Fermions in one dimension: from few- to many-body phenomena |
Oct. 3, 2013
12:30 PM |
Brian Swingle,
Harvard University
Technical Host: Armin Rahmani |
Entanglement, Renormalization, and Holography |
Sep. 26, 2013
12:30 PM |
Jay Deep Sau,
University of Maryland, College Park
Technical Host: Dibyendu Roy |
The search for topologically degenerate Majorana modes in semiconductor/superconductor interfaces
|
Sep. 12, 2013
12:30 PM |
Federico Spedalieri,
ISI, USC
Technical Host: Diego Dalvit |
Recent results on the D-Wave processor: physics and applications
|
Aug. 29, 2013
12:30 PM |
Peter Kruger,
University of Nottingham
Technical Host: Diego Dalvit |
Quantum gases in micro-engineered environments near surfaces |
Aug. 28, 2013
12:30 PM |
Sergio Boixo,
USC & Google
Technical Host: Rolando Somma |
Experimental quantum annealing |
Aug. 8, 2013
12:30 PM |
Benjamin Schumacher,
Kenyon College
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
TBA |
Aug. 1, 2013
12:30 PM |
John Burke,
AFRL, Kirtland AFB
Technical Host: Malcolm Boshier |
Precision Navigation and Timing using Atomic Physics: How atoms tell you when and where you are now and in the future |
July 18, 2013
12:30 PM |
Julian Sonner,
MIT
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Dynamics of broken symmetry |
July 11, 2013
12:30 PM |
Anushya Chandran,
Princeton University
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Kibble-Zurek Scaling and String-Net Coarsening in Topologically Ordered Systems |
June 27, 2013
12:30 PM |
Jonathan Keeling,
University of St. Andrews
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Non-equilibrium phases of coupled matter-light systems |
June 20, 2013
12:30 PM |
Jess Riedel,
IBM
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
Decoherence and the Quantum Detection of Classically Undetectable Phenomena |
June 13, 2013
12:30 PM |
Sebastian Deffner,
University of Maryland
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Quantum speed limits for non-Markovian dynamics |
May 23, 2013
12:30 PM |
Pedram Roushan,
UC Santa Barbara
Technical Host: Armin Rahmanisisan |
From Surface States of Topological Insulators to Semiconductor Nanowires: Candidates for Realizing Majorana Fermions
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May 1, 2013
12:30 PM |
Seth Lloyd,
MIT
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Gravity and Quantum Information |
Mar. 28, 2013
12:30 PM |
Oscar Viyuela,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Density Matrix Topological Insulators: Thermal and decocherent effects playing a crucial role in the notion of topological order |
Mar. 14, 2013
12:30 PM |
Aditi Mitra,
New York University
Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo |
Quantum quenches: prethermalization, thermalization and dynamical phase transitions |
Mar. 7, 2013
12:30 PM |
Hossein Sadeghpour,
Harvard-ITAMP
Technical Host: Ryan Behunin |
Anomalous heating in ion traps: what is it and can it be mitigated? |
Feb. 28, 2013
12:30 PM |
Ricardo Decca,
IUPUI
Technical Host: Ryan Behunin |
Newton, Casimir and other interactions |
Tues
Feb. 26, 2013
2:00 PM |
Andrew Comech,
Texas A&M
Technical Host: Avadh Saxena |
Linear stability of solitary waves in nonlinear Dirac equation |
Feb. 7, 2013
12:30 PM |
Richard Cleve,
University of Waterloo
Technical Host: Rolando Somma |
Classical simulation of entanglement swapping with bounded communication? |
Jan. 31, 2013
12:30 PM |
Kevin Wright,
Dartmouth College
Technical Host: Changhyun Ryu |
SQUID-like phenomena Bose-Einstein condensate "circuits" |
