Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

April 21, 2010

Spectroscopy of the Andreev Bound States in a Carbon Nanotube

Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 11:30-12.30 Prof. Jean-Damien Pillet Quantronics Group CEA-Saclay ABSTRACT: Carbon Nanotubes are not intrinsically superconducting, but when they are connected to superconducting leads they can carry a supercurrent. This supercurrent is...

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April 7, 2010

Persistent currents and quantised vortices in a matter-light superfluid

Wednesday, 7 April 2010, 12:00-13.00 Prof. F. M. Marchetti Departamento de Fisica Teorica de la Materia Condensada, UAM ABSTRACT: Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity has been recently revealed in semiconductor microcavities [1,2], inaugurating a new...

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March 24, 2010

Noise Correlations and Coherent Coupling in Solid State Qubits

Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 12:0013.00 Prof. David Marcos Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM) ABSTRACT: In this seminar I will present recent advances in the fields of quantum transport and and hybrid...

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February 24, 2010

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...

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January 27, 2010

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...

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July 15, 2009

Charge and spin transfer statistics of quantum impurity models

Tuesday, 15 July 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Andreas Komnik Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg ABSTRACT: We analyze the full counting statistics (FCS) of the charge and spin transport through the Anderson impurity model (AIM)...

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July 13, 2009

Modifications of geometric and electronic properties of surface systems caused by structural defects

Monday, 13 July 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Barbara Pieczyrak Department of Physics, University of Wraclaw

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May 12, 2009

Light-matter coupling in photonic crystal structures: from sea-mouse to exciton-polaritons

Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Creatore Celestino Universitá degli Studi di Pavia, Italy ABSTRACT: Photonic crystals (PhCs), structures characterized by a spatially periodic dielectric function, are nowadays very appealing due to their rich...

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May 11, 2009

The effect of the supporting oxide on the activity of vanadia catalysts

Monday, 11 May 2009, 15:00-16.00 Dr. M.V. Ganduglia-Pirovano Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany) ABSTRACT: As the pressure and materials gaps between real catalysis and traditional UHV single crystals studies are narrowing, experiments...

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April 15, 2009

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...