Michaelmas Term 2016/17

Group meetings on Fridays 11:00-12:00

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.  More information about these is coming soon.

WeekPresenterTalkVenue
1
14th Oct
Edward
McCann
Even-odd interaction effect in multilayer graphene
Related articles: Article 1 Article 2
Bowland North
​SR10
2
21st Oct
Emiliano
Cancellieri
Full Stark Control of Spin-Orbit Coupled Polariton States and accumulation of Berry Phase​
Abstract below
Bowland North
SR10
3-6
28th Oct – 18th Nov
No talks
7
25th Nov
Neil
Drummond
Atomic and electronic structure of solid hydrogen at multi-megabar pressuresBowland North
SR10
8
2nd Dec
Marcin
Szyniszewski
Introduction to tensor networks
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Bowland North
SR10
9
9th Dec
Henning
​Schomerus
Many-body localization characterized from a one-particle perspectiveFrankland Colloquium
10
16th Dec
Ryan
​Hunt
Quantum Monte Carlo studies of energy gaps in semiconductors
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Frankland Colloquium

Abstracts

Emiliano Cancellieri – Full Stark Control of Spin-Orbit Coupled Polariton States and accumulation of Berry Phase
​The orbital angular momentum and the polarisation of light are physical quantities widely investigated for classical and quantum information processing. In this work we propose to take advantage of strong light-matter coupling, circular-symmetric confinement, and transverse-electric transverse-magnetic splitting to exploit states where these two degrees of freedom are combined. By considering, as an example, the case of semiconductor polariton systems, we first demonstrate full ultrafast Stark control of spin-orbit coupled states, and then demonstrate the accumulation of Berry phase during a manipulation along a closed path in the parameters space.