The journal club is similar to the main PQM discussion group, with one crucial difference: attendance is limited to students and postdoctoral researchers. The main purpose of the journal club is to improve cohesion and discussion between these junior researchers in an informal context. In the 2022-2023 academic year, the weekly journal club meetings will be led by PQM’s various research students, on a rotating basis. Each is expected to present part of their own research, a scientific article or anything else that they find stimulating. The speakers are not necessarily expected to be experts on their topic, rather questions and open discussion are encouraged.

In Term 1, the 2022/23 Journal club meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 12:00 in Chipperfield seminar room 4 (link to room details here).

In Term 2, the journal club will meet in Stacey Lecture theatre 1 on Thursdays at 12:00, typically for around an hour.

For more information, or if you would like to present, please contact Joseph Chapman or Ciprian-Cristian Vijeu.

Schedule Term 1 — Autumn 2022

• 02/11/2022 – Discussion of the Nobel Prize in Physics by Joseph Chapman
• 09/11/2022 – Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms by Ciprian-Cristian Vijeu
• 16/11/2022 – No Journal Club meeting to permit attendance of the lecture series by Prof. Werner Krauth.
• 23/11/2022 – Dialectics of Nature by Henry Sheehy
• 30/11/2022 – Discussion of the Quantum Cheshire Cats
• 07/12/2022 – Continued discussion of the Quantum Cheshire Cats
• 14/12/2022 – Group discussion of work this term

Schedule Term 2 — Spring 2023

• 16/03/2023 – First MPhys Student presentation session
• 23/03/2023 – Additional session for MPhys presentations
• 30/03/2023 – Discussion of the MPhys viva assessments

(Limited events due to availability and illness.)

Past Discussions (2021/22): Organised by Tymoteusz Tula.

Schedule Term 1 — Autumn 2021

• 27/10/2021 — Tymoteusz Tula
• 03/11/2021 — Johnathan Martin (discussing his recent work: Bouncing in an oscillatory gravitational field)
• 10/11/2021 — Holly McPhillips (presenting materials exhibiting magnetoelectric effect: Fe₂Mo₃O₈ and Co₂Mo₃O₈)
• 17/11/2021 — Tymoteusz Tula (introduction to Tensor Networks: link to notes)
• 24/11/2021 — Johnathan Martin (discussing quantum Cheshire Cat effect: A dynamical quantum Cheshire Cat effect and implications for counterfactual communication)
• 01/12/2021 — –
• 08/12/2021 — James Neil (discussing article about Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerators: Optimum operating regimes of common paramagnetic refrigerants)
• 15/12/2021 — –

Schedule Term 2 — Spring 2022 (preliminary)

• 19/01/2022 — Tymoteusz Tula
• 26/01/2022 — Johnathan Martin
• 02/02/2022 — QFT in Condensed Matter Physics
• 10/02/2022 — QFT in Condensed Matter Physics
• 17/02/2022 — QFT in Condensed Matter Physics
• 24/02/2022 — QFT in Condensed Matter Physics
• 03/03/2022 — TBD
• 10/03/2022 — TBD
• 17/03/2022 — TBD
• 24/03/2022 — TBD
• 31/03/2022 — TBD
• 07/04/2022 — TBD