S.FI.DE. 2007

Statistical Field Theory of Quantum Devices

 
 
 
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  MONDAY, July 16 2007

8:00am  9:00am

Registration

9:00am  9:40am

John Cardy

University of Oxford
UK

Quantum Quenches in Extended Systems

Abstract

9:45am 10:25am

Sergey Bravyi

IBM Watson Research Center
USA

Statistical physics and quantum computation

Abstract

10:30am  10:45am

Coffee Break

10:45am 11:25am

Vladimir Korepin

Stony Brook
USA

Entanglement in Spin Chains

Abstract

11:30am 12:10pm

Pasquale Calabrese

Università di Pisa
Italy

Entanglement entropy and quantum field theory

Abstract

12:15pm  3:30pm

Lunch Break

3:30pm  4:10pm

Eduardo Fradkin

University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
USA

Entanglement Entropy at two dimensional quantum critical points and topological phases: can you hear the shape of Schrödinger's cat?

Abstract

4:15 pm  4:55 pm

Luigi Amico

Università di Catania
Italy

Entanglement in Spin Chains

Abstract

5:00 pm  5:15 pm

Coffee Break

5:15 pm  5:55 pm

Paul Fendley

University of Virginia
USA

Topological entanglement entropy and the holographic partition function

Abstract

6:00 pm  6:40 pm

Gordon Semenoff

University of British Columbia
Canada

Stretched states from Majorana modes

Abstract

 

  TUESDAY, July 17 2007

9:00 am  9:40 am

Ian Affleck

University of British Columbia
Canada

The Kondo screening cloud: what it is and how to measure it in mesoscopic devices

Abstract

9:45am 10:25am

Reinhold Egger

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Germany

Interaction effects in quantum point contacts and quantum wires

Abstract

10:30am 10:45am

Coffee Break

10:45am 11:25am

Andreas Ludwig

University of California
Santa Barbara
 USA

Boundary Critical Behavior and Multifractality at Anderson (De-)Localization Transitions

Abstract

11:30am 12:00pm

Domenico Giuliano

Università della Calabria
Italy

Boundary Field theories of SQUID devices

Abstract

12:05 pm  12:35 pm

Pascal Degiovanni

ENS Lyon
& Boston University

Mesoscopic devices for cavity QED: from quantum optics to quantum impurity problems

Abstract

12:40 pm 3:30 pm

Lunch Break

3:30 pm 4:10 pm

Benoit Douçot

Universités Paris 6 et 7, C.N.R.S.
France

Physical implementation of protected qubits

Abstract

4:15 pm 4:55 pm

So-Young Pi

Boston University
USA

Topological Mass Generation in Four Dimensions

Abstract

5:00 pm  5:40 pm

German Sierra

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain

Superconductivity and the Riemann zeros

Abstract

5:45 pm  6:00 pm

Coffee Break

6:00 pm  6:40 pm

Chetan Nayak

University of California
Los Angeles
USA

Physics of the 5/2 quantum Hall State

Abstract

6:45 pm 7:25 pm

Roderich Moessner

University of Oxford
UK

Artificial square ice and related dipolar nanoarrays

Abstract

8:00 pm

Social Dinner

 

  WEDNESDAY, July 18 2007

9:00am 9:40am

Chiara Fort

LENS Firenze
Italy

Experiments with ultracold atoms in a bichromatic optical lattice: searching for disorder induced effects

Abstract

9:45am 10:20am

Paolo Silvestrini

Seconda Università di Napoli
Italy

TBA

Abstract

10:30am 10:50am

Andrea Trombettoni

SISSA
Italy

Josephson devices with cold atoms

Abstract

10:55am 11:10am

Coffee Break

11:10am 11:50am

Mario Rasetti

Politecnico di Torino
Italy

Topological quantum computation as a tool for Topology

Abstract

11:55am 12:35pm

Lachezar Georgiev

INRNE Sofia
Bulgaria

Topological Quantum Computation with non-Abelian anyons in the Pfaffian quantum Hall state

Abstract

12:40pm 3:00pm

Lunch Break

3:00 pm 3:40 pm

Roman Jackiw

MIT Boston
USA

Topology and Fractional Charge in Polyacetylene and Graphene

Abstract

3:45 pm 4:25 pm

Claudio Chamon

Boston University
USA

Electron Fractionalization in 2D via Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Graphene-like Structures

Abstract

4:30 pm 4:50 pm

Alessandro De Martino

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Germany

Magnetic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in graphene

Abstract

4:55 pm 5:10 pm

Coffee Break

5:10 pm 5:50 pm

Dmitri Khveshchenko

INRNE Sofia
Bulgaria

Coulomb Interacting Dirac Fermions in Disordered Graphene

Abstract

5:55 pm 6:35 pm

Mahito Kohmoto

University of Tokyo
Japan

Jahn-Teller theorem, quantized flux and monopole confinement of the honeycomb lattice

Abstract

6:40 pm 7:20 pm

Boris Altshuler

Columbia University
USA

P-N junctions and Random Resistor Network in Graphene

Abstract

  7:30 pm

Poster Session

 

    THURSDAY, July 19 2007

9:00am  9:40am

Mikhail Zvonarev

Université de Genève
Switzerland

Dynamics of spin waves in one-dimensional spinor Bose gas

Abstract

9:45am10:25am

José Ignacio Latorre

Universitat de Barcelona
Spain

Quantum Information and the simulation of quantum systems

Abstract

10:30am 10:45am

Coffee Break

10:45am 11:25am

Sankar Das Sarma

University of Maryland
USA

Non Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation

Abstract

11:30am 12:10pm

David Campbell

Boston University
USA

Intrinsic Localized Modes: Localizing Energy Through Nonlinearity and Discreteness

Abstract

12:15 pm  12:45 pm

Conclusions

12:45 pm

Lunch