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Friday, August 31, 2012

Announcement of the LA-SIGMA Journal Club

We are glad to announce that the journal club will be activated under the name LA-SIGMA journal club this semester, thanks to the support from LA-SIGMA. The LA-SIGMA journal club welcomes all graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other junior researchers from LA-SIGMA related departments in LSU. The new address for the LA-SIGMA journal club website is

http://lasigmajournalclub.blogspot.com/

Monday, November 7, 2011

Club Meeting 11/08: Dr. Katherine Brown

On Nov 8, Dr. Katherine Brown will give a talk in the journal club.

Title:
Multi-dimensional Systems in Quantum Logic

Articles:
Simplifying quantum logic using higher-dimensional Hilbert Spaces
B.P. Lanyon et al.
Nature Physics 5, 134-140 (2009)

Adding Control to arbitrary unknown quantum operations
X.Q. Zhou et al.
arXiv:1006.2670v2
(Nature Communications 2, Article number: 413)


Abstract:

Standard quantum computing circuits using qubits, two dimensional quantum systems in order to create logic gates. In these two papers the authors show that using higher-dimensional systems, it is possible to perform the necessary quantum logic gates in a far simpler fashion, requiring simpler gates, and less of these gates. In my talk I will highlight the results of these papers and explain where their efficiency savings come from, and the limits of recreating the results in terms of qubits.

Time: 11/08/2011 4-5pm
Location: Rm 262 Nicholson

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Club Meeting 10/25: Sheng Feng

Today, Sheng will give a talk on

Ferromagnetic-glassy Transition in 3d Ising Spin Glass

Article:
Phys. Rev. B 84, 134202 (2011)

link

Time: 10/25/2011 4-5 pm
Location: Rm 262 Nicholson Hall

Monday, October 10, 2011

Club Meeting 10/11: Dr. Jing Teng

On Oct 11, Dr. Jing Teng will give a talk about:

Title:
Fibonacci number in nature at the microscopic level

Article:
Triangular and Fibonacci Number Patterns Driven by Stress on Core/Shell Microstructures
SCIENCE 309, 909 (2005)

Time: 10/11/2011 Tue 4-5pm
Location: Rm 262 Nicholson Hall

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Club Meeting 10/04: Chen Chen

On Oct 4, Chen Chen will give us a talk about:

Title:
Effect of Anharmonicity: Temperature Dependence of Phonon Energy and Width


Articles:

Anharmonic effects in light scattering due to optical phonons in silicon
Phys. Rev. B 28, 1928–1934 (1983)
link

Anharmonic phonon effects in Raman spectra of unsupported vertical graphene sheets
Phys. Rev. B 83, 125430 (2011)
link

Time: 10/04/2011   4-5pm
Location: Rm 262 Nicholson Hall

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Club Meeting 09/27: Neel Haldolaarachchige

On Sep 27, Neel will give us a talk about:

Title:
Recent studies of Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical point on intermetallic systems

Articles:
Ferromagnetic quantum critical point induced by dimer-breaking in SrCo2(Ge1−xPx)2
Nature Physics 7, 207–210 (2011)

Evidence for a spin singlet state in the intermetallic semiconductor FeGa3
Phys. Rev. B 82, 155202 (2010)

Correlation effects in the small gap semiconductor FeGa3
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 200, Issue 1, pp. 012014 (2010)

Time: 09/27/2011 4-5pm
Location: Rm 262, Nicholson Hall

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Club Meeting 09/20: Kaushik Seshadreesan

On Sept 20, Kaushik will give a talk on:

General Optimality of the Heisenberg Limit for Quantum Metrology
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180402 (2010)

Time: 09/20/2011 4-5pm
Location: Rm 262 Nicholson Hall