Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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...

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...