Seminars
From Institute for Theoretical Physics II / University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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External seminars
- The physics "Kolloquium" on Mondays at 17:15
- The Kolloquium der Theoretischen Physik on Tuesdays, 16-18h in lecture theatre F
- Seminars on Theoretical Chemical Physics (group of Prof. Thoss), on Thursdays, 16-18h
- This week's seminars at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Optomechanics seminar
Tuesdays, starting at 12:00, Seminar room 02.779 (Staudtstr. 7, building B3, Erlangen)
Summer term 2013
| Date | Present ongoing work | Journal club |
|---|---|---|
| 23.04. | Andreas Kronwald | Florian Marquardt |
| 30.04. | Roland Lauter | Talitha Weiss |
| 07.05. | Michael Schmidt | Vittorio Peano |
| 14.05. | Max Ludwig | Deng Zhijiao |
| 22.05. (Wednesday) | Vittorio Peano | Michael Schmidt |
| 28.05. | Deng Zhijiao | Roland Lauter |
| 04.06. | Steven Habraken | Max Ludwig |
| 11.06. | Talitha Weiss | Steven Habraken |
| 20.06. (Thursday) | Steven Habraken | Max Ludwig |
| 25.06. | Roland Lauter | Deng Zhijiao |
| 02.07. | Michael Schmidt | Vittorio Peano |
| 09.07. | Max Ludwig | Talitha Weiss |
| 16.07. | Vittorio Peano | Michael Schmidt |
| 23.07. | Deng Zhijiao | Roland Lauter |
| 30.07. | Steven Habraken | Max Ludwig |
Seminar on nanophysics and quantum optics
Wednesdays, starting at 12:00, Seminar room 02.779 (Staudtstr. 7, building B3, Erlangen)
Summer term 2013
Preliminary schedule
- 24.04. Lingzhen Guo: Phase Space Crystal: A New Way to Create Quasienergy Bandstructure
- 15.05. Roland Lauter: Planck, fundamental constants
- 21.05. (Tuesday!) Tarik Berrada: Bosonic Josephson junction on an atom chip: Mach-Zehnder interferometer and tunnelling dynamics of coupled 1D gases
- 29.05. Stefan Kessler: bird navigation with spins etc. (Briegel & earlier)
- 05.06. Talitha Weiß: Hanbury Brown Twiss, 2 photon interference
- 12.06. Sanli Faez: Quantum core fibers: a new solid-state platform for quantum optics
- 19.06. Vittorio Peano: Einstein, Brownian Motion
- 26.06. Nikolai Kiesel: Cavity Optomechanics with Levitated Nanospheres (see abstract (PDF))
- 03.07. Zhijiao Deng: superradiance
- 10.07. Steven Habraken: Leuchs et al., recently published theory
- 17.07. Michael Schmidt: Lorenz attractor
further talks (dates tba):
- Eric Lutz: Aharonov, Weak values
- Florian Marquardt: Volovik et al., theory about 2nd Higgs
possible topics of further talks include:
- Bells EPR
- Aspect, EPR
- Guth, Inflationary Univ. 1981
- Hawking radiation
- Kosterlitz-Thouless
- Zak phase (maybe also Bloch group expt.)
- Jarzynski inequality
- Hohenberg/Kohn, DFT
- Klein(Kaluza) 5D gravity == gravity+E&M
- Dynamical Casimir effect (new experiments)
- Kibble/Zurek defect creation during quench through phase transition
- Chimeras in synchronization
- Network physics/Levy flights for money and diseases
Winter term 2012/13
Preliminary schedule
- 07.11. Andreas Kronwald
- 14.11. Stefan Keßler
- 21.11. Roland Lauter
- 28.11. Clemens Neuenhahn
- 12.12. David Turban
- 19.12. Carlos Büsser
- 09.01. Guest speaker, to be announced
- 16.01. Michael Schmidt
- 23.01. Lev Vidmar
- 30.01. Max Ludwig
Summer term 2012
Preliminary schedule
- 16.05. Andrea Aiello: Entangling Different Degrees of Freedom by Quadrature Squeezing Cylindrically Polarized Modes
- 21.05. Max Ludwig: Sonic black holes in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates
- 01.06. Michael Schmidt: Quantum Computation over Continuous Variables
- 15.06. Stefan Kessler: Dynamical Mean Field Theory
- 22.06. Andreas Kronwald: tba
- 29.06. Florian Marquardt: tba
- 06.07. Michael Schneider (Master Colloquium)
- 11.07. Clemens Neuenhahn: Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems
Winter term 2011/12
Preliminary schedule
- 09.11. Clemens Neuenhahn: Workdistribution after quench
- 16.11. Max Ludwig: The fate of the false vacuum
- 23.11. M. Medvedyeva (U.Leiden): Piezocorrection to conductivity for gated suspended graphene
- 30.11. Yue Chang: Some Quantum Optical Phenomena in Quantum Coherently Integrated Devices
- 07.12. Andreas Kronwald: Full counting statistics
- 14.12. Michael Schmidt: Quantum teleportation
- 21.12. Philipp Wopperer (progress talk about PhD thesis at Toulouse)
- 11.01. Michael Schneider: Quantum computation algorithms
- 18.01. Stefan Kessler: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
- 25.01. Florian Marquardt: Topological insulators (Kane paper)
Summer term 2011
Preliminary schedule
- 25.05. Mährlein (Bachelor Koll.)
- 08.06. Björn Kubala: Quantum Monte Carlo (DMFT?)
- 20.06. Michael Schmidt: Entanglement
- 24.06. Andreas Kronwald: Lindblad/quantum jumps
- 27.06. Max Ludwig: Effective Hamiltonians
- 29.06. Benedikt Krüger: truncated Wigner approx.
- 06.07. Bernhard Faber
- 13.07. Stefan Kessler: t-DMRG
- 15.07. Clemens Neuenhahn: adiabatische Störungsrechnung
Winter term 2010/11
Preliminary schedule
- 27.10. Izhar Neder (Harvard University): Semi-classical model for decohorence of an electron spin qubit due to coherently evolving nuclear spin bath
- 03.11. Andreas Kronwald: Effects of ultrastrong light-mechanics coupling
- 17.11. Michael Schmidt: Light-induced state transfer and entanglement between vibrational modes in nanostructures
- 24.11. Benedikt Krüger: Localization and delocalization of wave functions on the Bethe-lattice
- 01.12. Huai-Zhi Wu: Impact of Landau-Zener physics on optomechanical oscillations
- 08.12. Clemens Neuenhahn: Thermalization of a many-body system
- 15.12. Jochen Erler
- 22.12. Bernhard Faber
- 12.01. Stefan Kessler: Stroboscopic observation of quantum many-body dynamics in cold atoms
- 19.01. Georg Heinrich: Collective nonlinear dynamics in an optomechanical array
- 26.01. Oliver Viehmann: Why the superradiant phase transition does not exist
- 02.02. Rainer Härtle (TP 4, FAU Erlangen): Electron-Hole Pair Creation Processes in Single-Molecule Junctions
- 23.02. Mikhail Kiselev, ICTP Trieste
Summer term 2010
- May 5: First group seminar, introduction, discuss web site
- May 26: "Transport of Bose-Einstein condensate" by Valentin O. Nesterenko Joint Institute for nuclear research, Dubna, Russia (visitor of Prof. Reinhard)