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• CMT Seminar: Superfluid to normal phase transition in strongly correlated bosons in two and three dimensions

  Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 3:00pm Reiss 502 Juan Carrasquilla Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the finite temperature phase diagrams of hardcore bosons in two- and three-dimens

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• CMT seminar: Extension of dual-fermion method to systems with disorder

  Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm Reiss 261A Hanna Tereltska Department of Physics, LSU We have extended the recently developed dual fermion approach [1] to study systems with disorder. In pa

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Normal Modes and Density of States of Disordered Colloidal Solids

  Friday, March 30, 2012 - 12:00pm Reiss 261A Mohammad Islam Carnegie Mellon The normal modes and the density of states (DOS) of any material provide a basis for understanding its thermal and mechani

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• Coupling linear elasticity and mass transport to quantify transport properties of polymer membranes

  Friday, March 23, 2012 - 12:00pm Reiss 502Edwin Chan Membranes for Clean Water Project, Polymers Division, NIST Many membrane technologies including water purification, fuel cell and drug delivery m

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• CMT Seminar: Localization and glassy dynamics of many-body quantum systems

  Monday, March 5, 2012 - 3:00pm Reiss 502Federico BeccaSISSA When classical systems fail to explore their entire configurational space, intriguing macroscopic phenomena like aging and glass formation

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• Progress towards the measurement of acid generation in photoresist using photoactivation localization microscopy (PALM)

  Friday, February 17, 2012 - 12:00pm Reiss 261A Adam Berro Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST Measurement of the movement of molecules in polymer films is of growing interest in mater

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• CMT seminar: Imaginary-Time Approach to Quantum Transport

  Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm Reiss 261A Andreas Dirks University of Goettingen The recently developed Matsubara-voltage formalism by Han and Heary [1] is briefly reviewed. Its unbiase

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• CMT Seminar: Quantum computation with trapped ions

  Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm Reiss 261A Joseph Wang Georgetown University TBA Host: Jim Freericks

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• CMT Seminar: The Molecular Hubbard Hamiltonian

  Monday, January 9, 2012 - 2:00pm Reiss 502 Lincoln D. Carr Center for Quantum Dynamics, Physics Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany and Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, USA

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• CMT Seminar: Finite-temperature properties and phase transitions of frustrated magnetic systems

  Monday, December 5, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 261A Ehsan Khatami Georgetown University Frustrated magnets often show unusual low-energy behavior and exotic ground state phases, such as the proposed quant

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