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2024-25 Seminars

August 29: Frank Gao, UT Physics
Emergent orders In quantum materials probed via nonlinear optical spectroscopy
Host: Edoardo Baldini
September 5: Linda Reichl, UT Physics
Particle-Hole thermalization in a composite superconducting and normal conduction nanowire
Host: Keji Lai
September 12: Mark Raizen, UT Physics
Isotopes in Medicine, and Meeting Rutherford’s Challenge
Host: Linda Reichl
September 19: Tong Chen, Johns Hopkins University
Phase Diagram and Spectroscopy Evidence of Spin Supersolid in Triangular-Lattice K2Co(SeO3)2
Host: Elaine Li
September 26: Matteo Ippoliti, UT Austin
Pseudorandomness and thermal equilibrium in the quantum world
Host: Elaine Li
October 3: Guru Khalsa, University of North Texas
Ultrafast symmetry control in crystalline materials with light
Host: Feliciano Giustino
October 10: Gennadi Bersuker, M2D Solutions
Neuromorphic computing: Linking atomic changes to device operations
Host: Alex Demkov
October 17: Srujan Meesala, Rice University
Generating entanglement between single optical and microwave photons with a chip-scale quantum transducer
Host: Elaine Li
October 24: Bo Zou, UT Austin
Mean-Field theory about the vortex lattices interlayer exciton condensation in the bilayer electron-hole fluids
Host: Allan MacDonald
October 31: Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona
Designer states in van der Waals heterostructures
Host: Ken Shih
November 7: Venkat Chandrasekhar, Northwestern University
Searching for signatures of non-trivial topology in diffusive, multiterminal, Josephson junctions
Host: Keji Lai
November 14: Yao Wang, Emory University
Witnessing Entanglement for Distinguishable Spins and Indistinguishable Electrons Using Solid-State Spectroscopy
Host: Edoardo Baldini
November 21: Joaquin Rodriquez-Nieva, Texas A&M University
Probing chaos and ergodicity in programmable quantum matter
Host: Matteo Ippoliti
December 5: Qiong Ma, Boston College
Topology and Correlations in a monolayerTaIrTe4
Host: Keji Lai
December 12: Quntao Zhuang, USC
Enhancing quantum transduction via intraband entanglement
Host: Elaine Li
January 16: Perry Mahon, UT Austin
Symmetry, topology, and geometry: The many faces of the topological magnetoelectric effect
Host: Allan MacDonald
January 23: Jonathan Pelliciari, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Using Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering to study quantum materials
Host: Edoardo Baldini
January 30: Sebastian Fava, UT Physics
Magnetic properties of light-induced superconductors
Host: Edoardo Baldini
February 4: Tessa Cookmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
New physics at our fingertips: two vignettes of quantum materials
Host: Allan MacDonald
February 6: Oskar Vafek, Florida State University
Correlated quantum states of matter in graphene based materials: reality born in imagination
Host: Allan MacDonald
February 13: Jong Yeon Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Open Quantum Dynamics and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Host: Junyeong Ahn
February 20: Yinming Shao, Penn State University
Magnetically Confined Quasiparticles in Quantum Matter
Host: Edoardo Baldini
February 27: Marlan Scully, Texas A&M University
Unruh and Cherenkov Radiation from a Negative Frequency Perspective
Host: Mark Raizen
March 6: Jun Zhu, Penn State University
Valley-controlled fractional quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene
Host: Elaine Li
March 11: John Robertson, Cambridge University
Density Functional Analysis of Threshold Voltage Control by Oxide
Dipole Layers in Si- and MoS2‑Based FETs
Host: Alex Demkov
March 13: Ajith Vijayachandran Jothikumari, Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Physics
The Center for Biomedical Quantum Sensing and Iron Deficiency in Children
Host: Mark Raizen
March 25: Ting Ke, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Probing 2D Materials with Superconducting Devices: Graphene Transmons and PtTe₂ Josephson Junctions
Host: Ken Shih
March 27: Aaron Young, Harvard University
Progress in cold atom Hubbard quantum simulators: from boson sampling to new phases of matter
Host: Paul Kunz
April 3: Haim Beidenkopf, Weizmann Institute of Science
Massless, Heavy, and Super Heavy Electrons in Kagome Metals
Host: Chih-Kang (Ken) Shih
April 10: Fabio Caruso, The University of Kiel, Germany
Electron-phonon interactions in the time domain: from non-equilibrium phonon dynamics to theoretical spectroscopy
Host: Feliciano Giustino
April 15: Shuolong Yang, University of Chicago
Building the Material Repertoire for Topological Quantum Processing
Host: Edoardo Baldini
April 17: Ilija Zeljkovic, Boston College
Imaging the intricate landscape of unconventional density waves in kagome superconductors
Host: Ken Shih
April 24: Jigang Wang, Ames National Lab and Iowa State University
Quantum Dynamics and Coherent Control Across Complex Systems: From Higgs Bosons to Weyl Fermions
Host: Elaine Li
May 13: Manato Fujimoto, Harvard University
Magic-angle Helical Quadralayer Graphene: Platform to Robust Strong-Coupling Topological States
Host: Junyeong Ahn
July 24: Zhuxi Luo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Twisting the Squares – Moiré Hubbard Simulations toward Designer Superconductivity
Host: Junyeong Ahn
July 30: Ludwig Mathey, University of Hamburg, Germany
Light-induced dynamics in graphene and graphene nanoribbons
Host: Edoardo Baldini