Category: Seminars

Magnetotransport in non-magnetic inhomogeneous media

Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Meera Parish Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Princeton University When the transport properties of a material change substantially in a magnetic field, it is often due to some...

Tunable superfluids in ultracold atomic gases

Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Francesca Maria Marchetti Departamento de Fisica Teorica de la Materia Condensada (UAM) Thanks to the recent experimental advances, ultra-cold atomic gases now provide the ultimate playground in which...

Molecular simulations in the Era of GPUs

Friday, 31 October 2008, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Gianni De Fabritiis Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF) The recent introduction of cost-effective accelerator processors (APs), such as the IBM Cell processor and Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) represents...

Toward molecule-machines at the nanoscale

Monday, 16 June 2008, 15:00-16.00 Dr. C. Joachim The Nanoscience Group, CEMES-CNRS, 29, Rue J. Marvig, BP 94347, 31055 Toulouse Cedex, France and A*STAR VIP Atom Technology, IMRE, 3 research Link, Singapore There is...

Adiabatic pumping through quantum dots

Monday, 17 September 2007, 12:00-13.00 Janine Splettstoesser Departement de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve A finite charge can be pumped through a mesoscopic system in the absence of an applied bias voltage by changing...

Hard Superconductivity in Soft Quantum Films

Thursday, 14 June 2007, 12.00-13.00 Hanno H. Weitering The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Superconductivity is inevitably suppressed in reduced dimensionality. Questions of how thin superconducting wires or films can be...