CMT Journal Club Fall 2012

Informal lunchtime meeting
Room: 2165 NPB
Time: 12:00 - 1:40 pm on Thursdays
Discussion of recent and current research. Questions to the speaker and the audience and interruptions are welcome.

planning meeting on Thursday, August 23, 12:00

The schedule with speakers and titles will be available here.

Available slots

Date Speaker Topic
August 30 Kumar Nonlinear Susceptibility and Condondomains in heavy Fermions
September 6 Peter Hirschfeld Phase Diagram and High Temperature Superconductivity at 65 K in Tuning Carrier Concentration of Single-Layer FeSe Films
He et al. arXiv:1207.6823
September 13 Andreas Kreisel Application of single-layer materials for semiconductor devices
September 20 Dimitrii Maslov Optical conductivity of Fermi liquids: exact results and comparison to the experiment
September 27 Lili Deng Real-Space Imaging of Kondo Screening in a Two-Dimensional O2 Lattice
Y. Jiang et al. Science, 333, 324 (2011).
October 4 Yan Wang Electronic structure, disconnected Fermi surfaces and antiferromagnetism in the layered pnictide superconductor Na$_x$Ba$_{1-x}$Ti$_2$Sb$_2$O
D. J. Singh arXiv:1209.4668 see also Ba1-xNaxTi2Sb2O (0.0 <= x >= 0.33): A Layered Titanium-based Pnictide Oxide Superconductor Phuong Doan, et al. arXiv:1209.5447
October 11 Ali Ashrafi Majorana Fermions in Rashba nanowires
October 18 Khandker Muttalib A puzzling metal-insulator transition in Gd films
October 25 Avinash Rustagi Spin waves in graphene nanoribbon devices
F. J. Culchac, et al. Phys. Rev. B 86, 115407 (2012)
November 1 Chris Reeg Signatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices
V. Mourik, et al. Science 336, 1003 (2012)
November 8 Bradley J. Nartowt A Survey of the Theory of the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Single-Molecule Devices Connected to Semiconducting Electrodes
D. Nozaki, et al. Phys. Rev. B 81, 235406 (2010)
November 15 Tathagata Chowdhury Tunable Kondo Physics in a carbon nanotube double quantum dot
S. J. Chorley, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 156804 (2012)
November 22 THANKSGIVING no Journal Club
November 29 Stefano Chesi (McGill) Spin polarized transmission of holes in quantum point-contacts with strong spin-orbit coupling
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