Category: Seminars

QM/MM Methods: Towards an Efficient and Accurate Description of Biological Photoreceptors and their Rractivity: Rhodopsin-Like Systems as an Example

Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 16:15-17.15 Dr. Pedro B. Coto Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Molekulare Materialien (ICMM) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg ABSTRACT: The description of biological processes induced by light absorption is a challenge for state of the...

Quantum control of spin qubits in Silicon

Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Maria Jose Calderon Department of theory and simulation of materials. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC) ABSTRACT: Doped Si is a promising candidate for quantum computing...

Probing the spin of a single atom with tunneling electrons

Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Joaquín Fernández-Rossier Universidad de Alicante ABSTRACT: Recent [1-3] work shows that inelastic electron scanning tunneling microscope (STM) probes the elementary spin excitations of a single and a few...

Many-body physics in arrays of ultracold atoms

Tuesday, 24 March 2009. 12:00h Dr. Diego Porras Universidad Complutense de Madrid ABSTRACT: Experimental setups such as trapped ions and ultracold neutral atoms in optical lattices provide us with a toolbox to implement a...