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), Diego Dalvit (T-4), Michael Di Rosa (C-PCS), Sebastian Deffner (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 Sebastian Deffner.
To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Kacy Hopwood.
Date |
Speaker/Affiliation |
Topic (link to abstract) |
Dec. 17, 2015
12:30 PM |
Maciej Maska,
University of Silesia
Technical Host: Bartlomiej Gardas |
Effective approach to the boson-fermion model |
Nov. 12, 2015
12:30 PM |
Matt Davis,
University of Queensland
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
Ebb and flow of superfluids: Bose-Einstein condensates far from equilibrium |
Nov. 5, 2015
12:30 PM |
Jordan M. Horowitz,
MIT
Technical Host: Sebastian Deffner |
Nonequilibrium potential and fluctuation theorems for quantum maps |
Oct. 22, 2015
12:30 PM |
Joe Eberly,
University of Rochester
Technical Host: Peter Milonni |
Shifting the Quantum-Classical Border with Classically Entangled Light Beams: Non-local is not Geographical |
Oct. 15, 2015
12:30 PM |
David Gosset ,
Caltech
Technical Host: Rolando Somma |
Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains |
Oct. 8, 2015
12:30 PM |
Luis Orozco ,
JQI University of Maryland
Technical Host: Sebastian Deffner |
Cavity QED a platform for quantum thermodynamic studies: environment-assisted speed-up |
Sep. 3, 2015
12:30 PM |
Lukasz Cincio ,
Perimeter Institute
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
Emergent anyons and explicit semion wave-function for the chiral spin liquid on the Kagome lattice |
August 13, 2015
12:30 PM |
Ralph Chamberlin,
Arizona State University
Technical Host: Sebastian Deffner |
Nanothermodynamics: A poor-man's approach to the crossover from classical to quantum behavior |
August 6, 2015
12:30 PM |
Juan Pablo Paz,
University of Buenos Aires
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
Work measurement as a generalized quantum measurement |
Tues July 21, 2015
12:30 PM |
Kilian Singer,
University of Mainz
Technical Host: Sebastian Deffner |
Characterization of a single ion heat engine and experimental verification of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism |
June 18, 2015
12:30 PM |
Herman Batelaan,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Technical Host: Peter Milonni |
Controlled double slit electron diffraction |
June 11, 2015
12:30 PM |
Tsampikos Kottos,
Wesleyan University
Technical Host: Avadh Saxena |
Designing novel materials with Parity-Time symmetries: Examples from integrated photonics and electronics |
June 4, 2015
12:30 PM |
Marios Tsatos,
University of Sao Paulo
Technical Host: Avadh Saxena |
Bose-Einstein condensates beyond the mean-field approach: principles and applications in ultracold atomic gases |
May 7, 2015
12:30 PM |
Marcos Rigol,
Pennsylvania State University
Technical Host: Sebastian Deffner |
From unitary dynamics to statistical mechanics in isolated quantum systems |
April 30, 2015
12:30 PM |
Christopher Jarzynski,
University of Maryland
Technical Host: Sebastian Deffner
Location: Physics Auditorium |
Defining work in quantum mechanics: interfering trajectories and decohering heat baths |
April 23, 2015
12:30 PM |
Stephen Jordan,
NIST
Technical Host: Rolando Somma |
Computational Complexity of Quantum Field Theory |
April 16, 2015
12:30 PM |
Riccardo Messina,
Université Montpellier
Technical Host: Diego Dalvit |
Momentum and energy transfer out of thermal equilibrium: three-body and nanostructuring effects |
March 19, 2015
12:30 PM |
Igor Aleiner,
Columbia University
Technical Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn |
The internal structure of a vortex in a two-dimensional superfluid with long healing length |
Feb. 26, 2015
12:30 PM |
Anton Andreev,
University of Washington
Technical Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn |
Hydrodynamic description of electron transport in high mobility semiconductor nanostructures |
Tues. Feb 17, 2015
12:30 PM |
Raymond Laflamme,
Institute for Quantum Computing
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
Experimental quantum error correction |
Feb. 12, 2015
12:30 PM |
Leonid Glazman,
Yale University
Technical Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn |
Quantum dynamics of a Fluxonium Device |
Wed. Jan. 21, 2015
12:30 PM |
William Wootters,
Williams College
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek |
The ubit model in real-amplitude quantum theory |
Jan. 15, 2015
12:30 PM |
Jiadong Zang,
Johns Hopkins University
Technical Host: Shi-Zeng Linn |
Skyrmions in Helimagnets |
