Conference on Quantum Phenomena in Confined Dimensions

Administration

Description

The aim of the Conference will be to address the fundamental physics of quantum transport in novel materials (such as graphene and carbon nanotubes) and of dynamics and electronic correlation in various types of quantum nanostructures.


TOPICS: 
Electronic properties and quantum transport in graphene; transport and correlation effects in carbon nanotubes; quantum dots; Kondo effect.
Quantum dynamics of various systems, including quantum condensates and excitons in quantum dots.
Spin dynamics and spin coherence in quantum dots; development of solid state devices for quantum information processing.

Material

Abstracts of Invited Talks 1844.pdf Abstracts of Posters 1844.pdf Abstracts of Short Talks 1844.pdf Complete Booklet of Abstracts Final List of Participants 1844.pdf Poster 1844.pdf

Conference on Quantum Phenomena in Confined Dimensions | (smr 1844)

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Monday, 4 June 2007

08:30 - 10:00 Registration and Administration Formalities
- 08:30 Registration and Administration Formalities 1h30'
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
- 10:00 Coffee break 30'
10:30 - 10:40 Opening Remarks
- 10:30 Opening Remarks 10'
  
  Speaker: V. KRAVTSOV (Head, ICTP Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section)
10:40 - 11:40 Kondo effect and spin correlation in single InAs self-assembled quantum dots with nanogap electrodes of normal, superconducting and ferromagnetic metal
- 10:40 Kondo effect and spin correlation in single InAs self-assembled quantum dots with nanogap electrodes of normal, superconducting and ferromagnetic metal 1h0'
  
  Speaker: S. TARUCHA (Univ. of Tokyo)

11:40 - 12:40 The macroscopically occupied polariton state in semiconductor microcavities

11:40 The macroscopically occupied polariton state in semiconductor microcavities 1h0'

Speaker:	M. SKOLNICK (Univ. of Sheffield)
Material:	lecture notes

12:40 - 13:00 Bistability of optically-induced nuclear orientation in quantum dots
- 12:40 Bistability of optically-induced nuclear orientation in quantum dots 20'
  
  Speaker: A. RUSSELL (Univ. of Lancaster)
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch break
- 13:00 Lunch break 2h0'
15:00 - 16:00 Electric transport in graphitic carbon materials
- 15:00 Electric transport in graphitic carbon materials 1h0'
  
  Speaker: P. KIM (Columbia Univ.)
16:00 - 16:30 Weak localization magnetoresistance in graphene
- 16:00 Weak localization magnetoresistance in graphene 30'
  
  Speaker: K. KECHEDZHI (Univ. of Lancaster)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
- 16:30 Coffee break 30'
17:00 - 17:30 Weak localization in graphene layers
- 17:00 Weak localization in graphene layers 30'
  
  Speaker: A. SAVCHENKO (Univ. of Exeter)
17:30 - 18:30 PN junction in graphene: optics of electronic flows
- 17:30 PN junction in graphene: optics of electronic flows 1h0'
  
  Speaker: B. ALTSHULER (Columbia Univ./NEC Res.Inst.Princeton)
19:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception - Adriatico Guest House Terrace
- 19:00 Welcome Reception - Adriatico Guest House Terrace 1h0'

Tuesday, 5 June 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 Phase coherent transport in graphene
  - 09:00 Phase coherent transport in graphene 1h0'
    
    Speaker: A. MORPURGO (Univ. Delft Technology)
- 10:00 - 10:20 Mesoscopic transport in graphene
  - 10:00 Mesoscopic transport in graphene 20'
    
    Speaker: F. MOLITOR (ETH Zurich)
- 10:20 - 11:00 Electron transport in inhomogeneous graphene structures
  - 10:20 Electron transport in inhomogeneous graphene structures 40'
    
    Speaker: V. CHEIANOV (Univ. of Lancaster)
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
  - 11:00 Coffee break 30'
- 11:30 - 12:30 Raman imaging and transport properties of graphene
  - 11:30 Raman imaging and transport properties of graphene 1h0'
    
    Speaker: K. ENSSLIN (ETHH - Festkorperphysik, Zurich)
- 12:30 - 12:50 Quantum dots in doped bilayer graphene
  - 12:30 Quantum dots in doped bilayer graphene 20'
    
    Speaker: J. PEREIRA (Univ. Fed. do Ceara/Univ. Antwerpen)
- 12:50 - 15:00 Lunch break
  - 12:50 Lunch break 2h10'
- 15:00 - 15:40 In-elastic electron-electron scattering in quantum wires
  - 15:00 In-elastic electron-electron scattering in quantum wires 40'
    
    Speaker: K. FLENSBERG (Univ. of Copenhagen)
- 15:40 - 16:00 Charge fluctuations as dephaser of a spin qubit
  - 15:40 Charge fluctuations as dephaser of a spin qubit 20'
    
    Speaker: A. ROMITO (The Weizmann Inst. of Science)
- 16:00 - 16:20 Tunneling into strongly biased Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
  - 16:00 Tunneling into strongly biased Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid 20'
    
    Speaker: A. CHUDNOVSKIY (Univ. of Hamburg)
- 16:20 - 16:40 Phase rigidity breaking in open Aharonov-Bohm ring coupled to a cantilever
  - 16:20 Phase rigidity breaking in open Aharonov-Bohm ring coupled to a cantilever 20'
    
    Speaker: F. ROMEO (Univ. of Salerno)
- 16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
  - 16:40 Coffee break 20'
- 17:00 - 18:00 Transport through single and coupled quantum dots: Noise and statistics
  - 17:00 Transport through single and coupled quantum dots: Noise and statistics 1h0'
    
    Speaker: R. HAUG (Univ. Hannover)
- 18:00 - 18:20 Theoretical study of the phase evolution in a Kondo quantum dot
  - 18:00 Theoretical study of the phase evolution in a Kondo quantum dot 20'
    
    Speaker: M. LAVAGNA (CEA, SPSMS/DRFMC, Grenoble)
- 18:20 - 18:40 Tuning spin transport and magnetoconductance in a semiconductor quantum ring with Rahsba spin-orbit interaction
  - 18:20 Tuning spin transport and magnetoconductance in a semiconductor quantum ring with Rahsba spin-orbit interaction 20'
    
    Speaker: A. TAGLIACOZZO (Univ. di Napoli "Federico II")
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 Electron interactions in carbon nanotube quantum wires
  - 09:00 Electron interactions in carbon nanotube quantum wires 1h0'
    
    Speaker: N. MASON (Univ. of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 10:00 - 10:40 Phase lapses and population switching in quantum dots: A quantum phase transition?
  - 10:00 Phase lapses and population switching in quantum dots: A quantum phase transition? 40'
    
    Speaker: Y. GEFEN (The Weizmann Inst. of Science)
- 10:40 - 11:00 Finite size effects, super- and sub-poissonian noise in a nanotube connected to leads
  - 10:40 Finite size effects, super- and sub-poissonian noise in a nanotube connected to leads 20'
    
    Speaker: A. CREPIEUX (CNRS, Centre Physique Theorique, Marseille)
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
  - 11:00 Coffee break 30'
- 11:30 - 12:30 Observation of Dirac fermions in graphene and graphite
  - 11:30 Observation of Dirac fermions in graphene and graphite 1h0'
    
    Speaker: E. ANDREI (Rutgers Univ.)
- 12:30 - 13:00 Composite Dirac fermions in graphene
  - 12:30 Composite Dirac fermions in graphene 30'
    
    Speaker: D. KHVESHCHENKO (Univ. of North Carolina)
- 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch break
  - 13:00 Lunch break 2h0'
- 15:30 - 17:00 Short talks and Introdution of Posters
  - 15:30 Short talks and Introdution of Posters 1h30'
- 17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session and Coffee break
  - 17:00 Poster Session and Coffee break 2h0'
Thursday, 7 June 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 Nuclear spins in quantum dots and interacting 2DEGs
  - 09:00 Nuclear spins in quantum dots and interacting 2DEGs 1h0'
    
    Speaker: D. LOSS (Univ. of Basel)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Long range ordered phases of electrons on the honeycomb lattice
  - 10:00 Long range ordered phases of electrons on the honeycomb lattice 30'
    
    Speaker: C. HONERKAMP (Univ. of Wurzburg)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
- 11:00 - 11:40 Quantum light generation and imaging using quantum dots
  - 11:00 Quantum light generation and imaging using quantum dots 40'
    
    Speaker: R. YOUNG (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Cambridge)
- 11:40 - 12:10 Electron spin coherence in singly charged InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots
  - 11:40 Electron spin coherence in singly charged InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots 30'
    
    Speaker: A. GREILICH (Univ. of Dortmund)
- 12:10 - 12:30 Ultrafast electron dynamics and decoherence in quasi-two dimensional surface bands
  - 12:10 Ultrafast electron dynamics and decoherence in quasi-two dimensional surface bands 20'
    
    Speaker: B. GUMHALTER (Institute of Physics, Zagreb)
- 12:30 - 13:00 Proximity-induced effects in carbon nanotubes
  - 12:30 Proximity-induced effects in carbon nanotubes 30'
    
    Speaker: S. VISHVESHWARA (Univ. Illinois effects in carbon nanotubes)
- 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch break
  - 13:00 Lunch break 2h0'
- 15:00 - 16:00 Spectroscopy of electrons and phonons in graphene structures
  - 15:00 Spectroscopy of electrons and phonons in graphene structures 1h0'
    
    Speaker: A. PINCZUK (Univ. of Columbia)
- 16:00 - 16:30 Effect of inelastic collisions on multiphonon Raman scattering in graphene
  - 16:00 Effect of inelastic collisions on multiphonon Raman scattering in graphene 30'
    
    Speaker: D. BASKO (Univ. of Columbia)
- 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
  - 16:30 Coffee break 30'
- 17:00 - 18:00 Many-body interactions in clean and alkali-adsorbed graphene
  - 17:00 Many-body interactions in clean and alkali-adsorbed graphene 1h0'
    
    Speaker: E. ROTENBERG (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.)
- 18:00 - 18:20 Role of the trigonal warping on the minimal conductivity of bilayer graphene
  - 18:00 Role of the trigonal warping on the minimal conductivity of bilayer graphene 20'
    
    Speaker: J. CSERTI (Eotvos Lorand Univ.)
- 19:00 - 19:00 Bus Departure for Conference Dinner to 'Rural Trattoria Mezzaluna', Duino Trieste
  - 19:00 Bus Departure for Conference Dinner to 'Rural Trattoria Mezzaluna', Duino Trieste
Friday, 8 June 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 Semiclassical dynamics and long time asymptotics of the central spin problem
  - 09:00 Semiclassical dynamics and long time asymptotics of the central spin problem 1h0'
    
    Speaker: L. BALENTS (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Electron-electron interaction effects in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires
  - 10:00 Electron-electron interaction effects in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires 45'
    
    Speaker: J. MEYER (The Ohio State Univ.)
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
  - 11:00 Coffee break 30'
- 11:30 - 12:30 Charge fractionalization and transport in low dimensions
  - 11:30 Charge fractionalization and transport in low dimensions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: K. LE HUR (Yale Univ.)
- 12:30 - 12:50 Attenuation of one-dimensional plasmons
  - 12:30 Attenuation of one-dimensional plasmons 20'
    
    Speaker: S. TEBER (CNRS, Lab. Louis Neel, Grenoble)
- 12:50 - 13:10 Towards a dephasing diode: asymmetric and geometric dephasing
  - 12:50 Towards a dephasing diode: asymmetric and geometric dephasing 20'
    
    Speaker: R.S. WHITNEY (Inst. Max Von Laue-Paul Langevin, Grenoble)
- 13:10 - 15:00 Lunch break
  - 13:10 Lunch break 1h50'
- 15:00 - 16:00 Graphene quantum dots
  - 15:00 Graphene quantum dots 1h0'
    
    Speaker: F. GUINEA (CSIC, ICM de Madrid)
- 16:00 - 16:40 Molecular doping and impurity states of graphene
  - 16:00 Molecular doping and impurity states of graphene 40'
    
    Speaker: A. LICHTENSTEIN (Univ. Hamburg)
- 16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
  - 16:40 Coffee break 20'
- 17:00 - 18:00 QED in a pencil trace
  - 17:00 QED in a pencil trace 1h0'
    
    Speaker: K. NOVOSELOV (Univ. of Manchester)
- 18:00 - 18:10 CLOSING REMARKS
  - 18:00 CLOSING REMARKS 10'