Physics of Quantum Materials Discussion Group, 2023-2024

Term 1: Tuesdays at 2pm (UK Time)

• 14/11/2023 – Introductions
• 21/11/2023 – Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – “Mechanism of broken time reversal symmetry innon-symmorphic superconductors”
• 28/11/2023 – Gunnar Möller (Kent) – “Energy minimization of paired composite fermion wave functions”
• 5/12/2023 – Boris Svistunov (University of Massachussetts at Amherst) – “Hydrodynamics of Borromean Counterfluids”
• Monday 11/12/2023 at 11am in the Ingram Lecture Theatre (ILT) – Nicolas Regnault (Princeton & Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, CNRS, Paris) – title TBA
  (NOTE the unusual DAY OF THE WEEK, TIME, and VENUE)

Term 2: Tuesdays at 2pm (UK Time)

• 16/1/2024 – Holly Mcphillips (Kent) – A High Pressure X-ray Diffraction Study of A2Mo3O8 (A2+ = Fe, Mn, Co): preliminary results
• 23/1/2024 – Josh Tucker – Tutorial: EPR Paradox and Bell’s Inequalities – ROOM CHANGE: Keynes Seminar Room 15 (KSR15)
• 30/1/2024 – Sam Carr (Kent) –
  One dimensional topological insulators with weak interaction: a bosonisation study (Part 1)
• 6/2/2024 – Joseph Chapman (Kent) – Curious correlations in the Toblerone model
• 13/2/2024 – No Discussion Group – MEE group seminar at 4pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 (Brendan Kennedy, University of Sydney, “Balancing Cooperativity and Disorder in Functional Materials” – contact Paul Saines of the MEE group for details)
• 20/2/2024 – Peter Fox (IBM/Imperial) – “Strong coupling in nanoplasmonic systems, and anapoles”
• 27/2/2024 – No Discussion Group – PQM Business Meeting (PQM academics only)
• 5/3/2024 – Sam Carr (Kent) – One dimensional topological insulators with weak interaction: a bosonisation study (Part 2)
• 12/3/2024 – Gunnar Moller (Kent) – Title TBA – ROOM CHANGE: Chipperfield Lecture Theatre (CHLT)
• 19/3/2024 – TBA
• 26/3/2024 – No Discussion Group – PHYS7000 Undergraduate Researcher Presentations (Kennedy Seminar Room 9)
• 2/4/2024 (date TBC) – Ofer Lahav (UCL) – “Machine Learning for Astronomy: Evolution or Revolution?”

Term 3: Tuesdays at 2pm (UK Time)

• 7/5/2024 – No discussion
• 14/5/2024 – Open-ended discussion
• 21/5/2024 – Josh Tucker – Quantum advantage in rendezvous games
• 28/5/2024 – TBA
• 4/6/2024 – No talk – week of Condensed Matter Physics in the City
• 11/6/2024 – Reyhaneh Khaseh (Augsburg) – Active quantum flocks
• 14/6/2024 – Dr Yu-Chin Tzeng [profile] (National Center for Theoretical Sciences Taiwan) – Quantum information perspective on non-Hermitian quantum phase transitions – Note unusual time and location: Howard Rogers Room, Ingram 234, 11am-12pm.