Condensed Matter Seminars



April 2024

Two-Dimensional Charge-Density-Wave Quantum

Speaker: Alexander A. Balandin
Institution: UCLA
Host: Anshul Kogar
Date: Friday, April 26, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Detecting and quantifying orbital magnetism in moire quantum matter

Speaker: Yulia Maximenko
Institution: Colorado State University
Host: Christopher Gutierrez
Date: Friday, April 19, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Slippery and flat: Ultrathin bismuth grown inside atomically-flat van der Waals materials

Speaker: Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi
Institution: UC Irvine
Host: Anshul Kogar
Date: Friday, April 12, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Integer and Fractional Quantum Spin Hall Effects in Twisted Moire Materials

Speaker: Kaifei Kang
Institution: Cornell University
Host: Qianhui Shi
Date: Friday, April 5, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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January 2024

Collective behavior of neural networks and complex systems in disordered superconducting loops

Speaker: Uday Goteti
Institution: UCSD
Host: Stuart Brown
Date: Friday, January 26, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Signature of Chiral Superconductivity in Chiral Molecular-Intercalated Two-Dimensional Superconductor

Speaker: Zhong Wan
Institution: UCLA
Host: Qianhui Shi
Date: Friday, January 12, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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December 2023

Integer and Fractional Chern insulators in moire MoTe2

Speaker: Yihang Zeng
Institution: Cornell University
Host: Qianhui Shi
Date: Friday, December 8, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Tuning the itineracy and topology of correlated states in semiconductor moire lattices

Speaker: Ben Feldman
Institution: Stanford University
Host: Qianhui Shi
Date: Friday, December 1, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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November 2023

Spinning Up Semiconductor Quantum Bits

Speaker: Jason Petta
Institution: UCLA
Host: Katie Christensen
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Unconventional charge correlations in new classes of kagome metals

Speaker: Stephen Wilson
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Advancing Trapped Ion Quantum Computers

Speaker: Russell Stutz
Institution: Center for Quantum Science & Engineering
Host: Jason R. Petta
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: Shannon Room (54-134, Eng 4)
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Disrupting qubits at the LPS Qubit Collaboratory

Speaker: Charles Tahan
Institution: Center for Quantum Science & Engineering
Host: Jason R. Petta
Date: Monday, November 13, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: Mong Auditorium (Entry level, Engineering 6)
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Electronic nematic order in the normal state of strontium ruthenate

Speaker: John Harter
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, November 3, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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October 2023

Search for topological superconductivity in UTe2

Speaker: Sean Thomas
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Stuart Brown
Date: Friday, October 27, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-740
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Spin and valley orders and superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene

Speaker: Andrey Chubukov
Institution: University of Minnesota
Host: Stuart Brown
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-740
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Crystal Growth of Rare Earth Intermetallics: A Platform for Quantum Materials

Speaker: Julia Chan
Institution: Baylor University
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, October 13, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Time-domain pulsed tunneling spectroscopy of a two-dimensional electronic system

Speaker: Heun Mo Yoo
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: Jason Petta
Date: Friday, October 6, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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August 2023

Atomic SET: a new technique for high-resolution potential imaging

Speaker: Dahlia Klein
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science
Host: Anshul Kogar
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023 2:00PM-3:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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Higher-dimensional topology and fractional states of matter in superconducting systems

Speaker: Wolfgang Belzig
Institution: University of Konstanz
Host: Yaroslov Tserkovnyak
Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 11:00AM-12:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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Magnetic Hardening in Low-Dimensional Ferromagnets

Speaker: J. Ping Liu
Institution: University of Texas at Arlington
Host: Anshul Kogar
Date: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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Korea Berry-Curvature Physics of Magnons

Speaker: Se Kwon Kim
Institution: KAIST, Korea
Host: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
Date: Monday, August 7, 2023 11:00AM-12:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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July 2023

Optical scanning probe microscopy

Speaker: Thomas Darlington
Institution: Columbia University
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, July 21, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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June 2023

Novel phases and dynamics of highly frustrated quantum magnets

Speaker: Hitesh Changlani
Institution: Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Host: Rahul Roy
Date: Friday, June 2, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330/Via Zoom
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May 2023

Scalable Quantum Nanophotonics: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping

Speaker: Marina Radulaski
Institution: University of California, Davis
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, May 26, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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MemComputing: When memory becomes a computing tool

Speaker: Massimiliano Di Ventra
Institution: University of California San Diego
Host: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
Date: Friday, May 19, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Probing quantum phase transitions in molecular crystals and topological Dirac semimetals through Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy ARPES

Speaker: Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal
Institution: California State University Long Beach
Host: Christopher Gutierrez
Date: Friday, May 12, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Shining light on Lead-Halide Perovskites: what optics can tell about the inner workings of the Solar-Cell-champion material

Speaker: Zhanybek Alpichshev
Institution: IST Austria
Host: Anshul Kogar
Date: Friday, May 5, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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April 2023

Location and thermal evolution of the pseudogap due to spin fluctuations

Speaker: Mengxing Ye
Institution: KITP, UC Santa Barbara
Host: Qianhui Shi
Date: Friday, April 28, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Fermiology and electronic symmetry breaking in AV3Sb5 kagome

Speaker: Riccardo Comin
Institution: MIT
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, April 21, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: VIa Zoom
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Spread and erase -- How electron hydrodynamics can eliminate the Landauer-Sharvin resistance

Speaker: Thomas Scaffidi
Institution: UC Irvine & University of Toronto
Host: Anshul Kogar
Date: Friday, April 14, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Quantum Materials in the Time Domain

Speaker: Andrea Damascelli
Institution: Quantum Matter Institute, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Host: Christopher Gutierrez
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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March 2023

Chirality and Topology in DNA-type Chiral Molecules and Chiral

Speaker: Binghai Yan
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, March 17, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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Dynamically enhancing qubit-photon interactions with anti-squeezing

Speaker: Marius Villiers
Institution: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Host: Jason Petta
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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Combining high-impedance resonators with crystal-phase defined double quantum dots

Speaker: Jann H. Ungerer
Institution: University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Host: Jason Petta
Date: Monday, March 13, 2023 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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Novel pairing phenomena in multiband superconductors

Speaker: Peter J. Hirschfeld
Institution: University of Florida
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, March 3, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: 4-330 PAB
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February 2023

Magnetic and electronic topological states in the kagome-net magnet YMn6Sn6

Speaker: Nirmal J. Ghimire
Institution: George Mason University
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, February 10, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: Via Zoom
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Dissipation in magnetic and quantum hybrid spin systems

Speaker: Benedetta Flebus
Institution: Boston College
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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January 2023

Observation of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4 with Momentum- Resolved EELS

Speaker: Peter Abbamonte
Institution: University of Illinois UC
Host: Anshul Kogar
Date: Friday, January 27, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Atomic-scale imaging of symmetry-broken electronic phases in kagome superconductors

Speaker: Ilija Zeljkovic
Institution: Boston College
Host: Christopher Gutierrez
Date: Friday, January 20, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: Available Via Zoom
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Interactions and topology in a hybrid transition metal dichalcogenide

Speaker: Haim Beidenkopf
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science
Host: Ni Ni
Date: Friday, January 13, 2023 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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Exotic Superconductivity in Graphene Multilayers

Speaker: Erez Berg
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science
Host: Stuart Brown
Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 2:00PM-3:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330
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