CONDENSED
MATTER JOURNAL CLUB
Journal
Club Meets on Tuesdays at Noon in B&H
410
FREE PIZZA!!
If you would like to volunteer to present a paper, or wish to volunteer
someone else, contact Dima Feldman
at dima_feldman@physics.brown.edu
The only rule is this: each speaker
should present work other than his/her own.
DECEMBER 2006
Friday, December 8, 2006: Hyeyun Jung
talks about an unexpected observation of
a quantum phase transition in YBCO, D. M. Broun, P. J.
Turner, W. A. Huttema, S. Ozcan,
B. Morgan, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, Superfluid density reveals a quantum critical point
between d-wave superconductivity and a Mott insulator, cond-mat/0509223
NOVEMBER 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006: Feifei Li talks
about semiconductor Hydrogen and search for metallic Hydrogen: P. Loubeyre, F. Occelli and R. LeToullec, Possible Quantum-liquid Metallic Phase of
Hydrogen at high Pressures and its Properties, cond-mat/0410425
OCTOBER 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006: Brad
Marston talks about a
surprising discovery about turbulence. References:
D. Bernard, G. Boffetta,
A. Celani, G. Falkovich, Conformal
invariance in two-dimensional turbulence, preprint
nlin.CD/0602017;
Inverse turbulent cascades and conformally
invariant curves, preprint nlin.CD/0609069
APRIL 2006
Friday,
April 14, 2006: Marc-Andre Vahon talks about superfluidity in cold atom systems. Reference: M. W. Zwierlein,
A. Schirotzek, C. H. Schunck, W. Ketterle,
Fermionic Superfluidity with Imbalanced Spin Populations, Science vol. 311. pp. 492 (2006)
DECEMBER 2005
Friday,
December 2, 2005: Kam Tuen Law talks about
the experimental observation of fractional statistics in quantum Hall effect.
Reference: F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou,
and V. J. Goldman, Realization
of a Laughlin quasiparticle interferometer: Observation of fractional
statistics, cond-mat/0502406
NOVEMBER 2005
Friday,
November 18, 2005: Bernd
Braunecker talks about recent advances in Density Matrix
Renormalization Group algorithm for simulations of quantum many-body
systems. References: F. Verstraete
and J. I. Cirac, cond-mat/0407066 (2004); F.
Verstraete, J.J. Garcia-Ripoll, and J.I. Cirac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93,
207204 (2004)