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ArrowProgram, Conductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions Workshop

Program details can be viewed below, or download the program in brochure format (PDF, 990 KB).

January 9: Superconductor-Insulator Transition

8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:30 Allen Goldman
“Charge and field tuning of the insulator-superconductor transition”
9:00 Wenhao Wu
“Field-Tuned superconductor-insulator transition at the critical resistance in h / 4e2 quench-condensed ultrathin Be films”
9:30 Peng Xiong
“Ultrathin a-Pb Films in perpendicular and parallel magnetic field”
10:00 Phil Adams
"The spin proximity effect in ultra-thin superconducting Be-Au Bilayers"
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Bezryadin
“Understanding dichotomy is thin superconducting nanowires”
11:30 Sasha Finkelshtein
“Vortex tunneling in superconducting films”
12:00 Peter Armitage
“Survival of superconducting correlation across the 2D superconductor insulator transition”
12:30 Lunch
2:00 G. Sambandamurthy
“Coopers pairs in the insulating phase: results from indium oxide films”
2:30 Jim Valles
“Observation of localized Cooper pair phases in amorphous multiply connected films”
3:00 Amir Yacoby
“The microscopic properties of graphene near its neutrality point”
3:30 Ray Ashoori
"Extremely High Resolution and Precision Tunneling Spectroscopy of 2D Systems"
4:00 Coffee
4:30 Nandini Trivedi
“Protected nodes in doped Mott insulators”
5:00 Tristan Cren
"Characteristic features in the local tunneling spectra of superconducting cuprates"
5:30 Seamus Davis
“Quasiparticle extinction with approaching Mottness in BSCCO”
6:00 Discussion session
Led by Allen Goldman
7:00 Dinner
8:30 Posters

January 10: Metal-Insulator Transition

7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Sergei Kravchenko
“Flow diagram of the metal-insulator transition in 2D”
9:00 Alex Punnoose
“The 2D metal-insulator transition: A dirty-Fermi-Liquid perspective”
9:30 Elbio Dagotto
“Consequences of phase competition in manganites and underdoped cuprates”
10:00 Gabi Kotliar
“Dynamical mean field theory of the Wigner-Mott transition”
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Mumtaz Qazilbash
“Mott transition in V02 revealed by infrared spectroscopy and nano-imaging”
11:30 Jochem Mannhart (OSU CME seminar)
“Interfaces between functional electronic systems”
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Ravin Bhatt
"Ferromagnetism in doped semiconductors without magnetic ions: squeezing water out from a rock"
2:30 Richard Scalettar
“Metal-Insulator and superconductor-insulator phase transitions in the Hubbard Model”
3:00 Dragana Popovic
"Glassy dynamics of electrons near the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions"
3:30 Cynthia Reichhardt
"Noise near the Wigner glass transition: Implications for the metal-insulator transition"
4:00 Coffee
4:30 Jun Zhu
“Probing charging events in carbon nanotubes with non-contact atomic force microscopy”
5:00 Yong Chen
“Phase coherence and superfluid-insulator transition in disordered Bose-Einstein Condensate"
5:30 Brian deMarco
“Experiments on transport and disorder in the Bose-Hubbard model”
6:00-7:00 Discussion session
Led by Vlad Dobrosavljevic
7:30 Celebration of 50 years of Anderson localization (Download flyer)
Historical perspective by Phil Anderson on his classic 1958 paper “Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices”
8:00 Dinner (Banquet)

January 11: Underdoped cuprates

7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Phil Anderson
“Deducing gap distribution in pseudogap region from Nernst effect vs B”
9:00 Phuan Ong
“Transition to the low-temperature vortex-liquid state below the critical doping in LSCO”
9:30 J.C. Campuzano
“What can ARPES tell us about quantum critical point under the dome in high Tc superconductors”
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Yoichi Ando
“Transport properties and quantum phase transitions in cuprates”
11:00 Henri Alloul
“Disorder, pseudogap, and phase diagram of the high-Tc cuprates”
11:30 Doug Bonn
“Structural order, critical phenomena, and a possible quantum critical point in YBCO”
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Tom Lemberger
“Super-to-insulator transition in underdoped 2D cuprate films”
2:30 Ali Yazdani
“Measuring the Evolution of Electronic State with Temperature in High-Tc Superconductors”
3:00 Mohit Randeria
“Pseudogap in underdoped cuprates: precursor pairing or competing orders?”
3:30 Coffee
4:00-5:00 Discussion session
Led by Mohit Randeria
5:30-6:00 Conference Summary
Goldman – Experiment; Kotliar-Theory


For more information, please contact Arshad Javed ajaved@magnet.fsu.edu at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.


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