Thursday, 26th January 2012. 12:00-13:00 Jordi Mur-Petit Instituto de Fisica Fundamental, CSIC ABSTRACT: I will make a presentation of the field of quantum information processing (QIP) from a general perspective, focusing then on our...
Thursday, 19th January 2012. 12:00-13:00 Javier Junquera Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria ABSTRACT: Ferroelectric perovskites are materials of great fundamental and applied interest. This...
Wednesday, 11th January 2012. 12:00-13:00 Jaime Merino Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ABSTRACT: Understanding the mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity in cuprate materials is a fundamental challenge in...
Wednesday, 21th december 2011. 12:00-13:00 Ivar Zapata Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid ABSTRACT: I will introduce FFLO (Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinikov) physics and review the present status of its experimental evidence. Cold atomic...
Wednesday, 14th december 2011. 12:00-13:00 Antonio García-Martín Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid, CSIC ABSTRACT: Subwavelength composite materials constitute an interesting path towards the development of materials with “on demand” optical properties. We will present...
Monday, 5th december 2011. 12:00-13:00 Giorgio Cinacchi Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia CondensadaUAM ABSTRACT: Suitable hard particle models are often sufficient to capture the basic features of the phase behaviour and properties...
Wednesday, 23 noviembre 2011. 12:00-13:00 Ramón Aguado ICMM, CSIC ABSTRACT: The combination of strong spin-orbit effect with a Zeeman field may lead to the formation of helical electron liquids in single-channel semiconducting nanowires. When...
Tuesday, 10th November 2011. 15:00-16:00 Eduardo Martín Martínez CSIC ABSTRACT: Relativistic quantum information theory uses well-known tools coming from quantum information and quantum optics to study quantum effects provoked by gravity and to learn...
Wednesday, 2nd noviembre 2011. 12:00-13:00 Bernd Braunecker Dpto. Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, UAM ABSTRACT: Majorana bound states appear at the ends of one-dimensional helical (i.e., spin-filtered) conductors if they are brought in...
Wednesday, 26th octubre 2011. 12:00-13:00 Sigmund Kohler Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC ABSTRACT: The spectrum of a quantum system as function of a control parameter generically exhibits anti-crossings. A classic example...
