Group meetings on Tuesdays 10:00-11:00, in C36 Physics

Here’s the timetable of the talks for the current term.

​Also, there are weekly condensed matter seminars at 3pm on Fridays, which will be interesting for anyone attending our group meetings.  These are advertised internally.

Week	Presenter	Talk	Venue
1-4	–	No talks	–
5 14th Feb	Simon Malzard	Topological defect states in non-linear laser arrays	C36 ​Physics
6 21st Feb	Sam ​Murphy	Defect processes in fusion materials Download File	C36 ​Physics
7 28th Feb	Thomas ​Lane	Field Effect Tunnelling Systems Download File	C36 ​Physics
8 7th Mar	Jose’ Alonso Castaneda	Thermodynamics of Weakly Measured Quantum Systems​ Abstract below	C36 Physics
9 14th Mar	David Thomas & Bharghav ​Garikipati	Quantum Monte Carlo study of biexcitons and trions in quantum rings Download File	C36 ​Physics
10 21st Mar	MPhys ​Students	CMT Group MPhys Presentations	C36 ​Physics

Abstracts

Jose’ Alonso Castaneda – Thermodynamics of Weakly Measured Quantum Systems​
Continuously monitored quantum systems are at the core of experimental physics today. We focus in defining fundamental quantities such a work and heat along individual quantum trajectories that are valid for coherent superposition of energy eigenstates .These quantities are then used to extend the first and second laws of stochastic thermodynamics to the quantum domain. As an example and possible future application, we illustrate our results with the case of a weakly measured driven two-level system and show how to distinguish between quantum work and heat contributions.