Homework

"Journal club presentation"

Here are some instructions for the final presentation in the course. Your proposed topic must be received by March 15.

2020 Schedule

Name    Date    Title References

Yifu Cao
April 21     An analogy between superconductors and smectic A liquid crystals P.G. de Gennes, "An analogy between superconductors and smectics A", Solid State Communications 10, 753 (1972)
Presentation

Andrew Davis          April 16 Electronic nematic phases

H. Yamase, "Electronic nematic phase transition in the presence of anisotropy"arXiv:1401.4628
Chu et al., "Evidence for an electron nematic phase transition in underdoped iron pnictide superconductors", arXiv:1002.3364
Presentation

Ammar Jahin
April 14 Antiferromagnetic spin chains I. Affleck, "Quantum spin chains and the Haldane gap", J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 1, 3047 (1989)"
Presentation

Mainak Pal
April 16 Quantum Time Crystals

F. Wilczek, "Quantum Time Crystals", PRL 109, 160401 (2012)
Presentation

Zhenfei Wu
April 14 Half-Quantum Vortices in Polar Phase of Superfluid 3He S. Autti t al, "Observation of Half-Quantum Vortices in Topological Superfluid 3He", Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 255301 (2016).
Presentation

Name	Date	Title	References
Yifu Cao	April 21	An analogy between superconductors and smectic A liquid crystals	P.G. de Gennes, "An analogy between superconductors and smectics A", Solid State Communications 10, 753 (1972) Presentation
Andrew Davis	April 16	Electronic nematic phases	H. Yamase, "Electronic nematic phase transition in the presence of anisotropy"arXiv:1401.4628 Chu et al., "Evidence for an electron nematic phase transition in underdoped iron pnictide superconductors", arXiv:1002.3364 Presentation
Ammar Jahin	April 14	Antiferromagnetic spin chains	I. Affleck, "Quantum spin chains and the Haldane gap", J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 1, 3047 (1989)" Presentation
Mainak Pal	April 16	Quantum Time Crystals	F. Wilczek, "Quantum Time Crystals", PRL 109, 160401 (2012) Presentation
Zhenfei Wu	April 14	Half-Quantum Vortices in Polar Phase of Superfluid 3He	S. Autti t al, "Observation of Half-Quantum Vortices in Topological Superfluid 3He", Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 255301 (2016). Presentation

Examples of journal club presentations from last class iteration.

Name	Title	References
Colin Barquist Apr. 17	Universality and scaling in biological systems	A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, and Brian J. Enquist, Science 276, 122 (1997). Presentation

Shinibali Bhattacharya Apr. 24	Statistical Mechanics for Natural Flocks of Birds	W. Bialeka et al, PNAS 109, 4786 (2012) Presentation

Adamya Goyal Apr. 17	Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids	Sinitiro Tomonaga; Remarks on Bloch's Method of Sound Waves applied to Many-Fermion Problems, Progress of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5, Issue 4, 1 July 1950, Pages 544-569 An Exactly Soluble Model of a Many-Fermion System, J. M. Luttinger Journal of Mathematical Physics 1963 4:9, 1154-1162 Presentation

Marc Lewkowitz Apr. 19	Landau Theory applied to River Formation	Scaling and River Networks: A Landau Theory for Erosion, E. Somfai and L.M. Sander, Phys. Rev. E56, R5 (1997). Presentation

Xiao Chen Apr. 24	Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Interplay of simplicity and complexity	Takezoe, Gorecka and Cepic, RMP 82, 897 (2010)

Wenguang Jiang Apr. 24	Bosonic surface states and acoustic spectroscopy of confined superfluid ³He-B	T. Mizushima & J.A. Sauls arXiv paper Presentation

Johnny Adams Apr. 19	Superglass	Theory of the Superglass Phase, Biroli et al, PRB 78, 224306 2008 Presentation

Prachi Sharma Apr. 17	Pomeranchuk Instabilities	Wu, Klein, Chubukov arXiv:1801.0657 A.J. Leggett PRB 140, A1869 (1965). Presentation

Abhishek Kumar Apr. 19	Quantum Hall states in rapidly rotating BECs	A. Fetter, RMP 81, 647 (2009). Presentation

Corey Bathurst Apr. 24	Disorder induced phase transitions in Weyl semimetals	Wang et al, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96, 165142 (2017). Presentation

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