Events Archive

The anomalous Hall Effect (AHE) is one of the oldest and most prominent transport phenomena in magnetic materials. However, the microscopic mechanism..

Recent general results on the statistics of nonequilibrium processes have opened up old debates between the exact dynamical and informational..

DARPA will present its Young Faculty Award webinar tomorrow afternoon (2PM-5PM- Tuesday August 29); the Office of Research will host a viewing of the event. Interested early career faculty may contact Ryan Champagne or register online - there is space available. DARPA’s webinars provide an introduction to the agency, describe program requirements, and provide an opportunity to ask questions to the program manager. For more information check the following websites; DARPA Young Faculty awards webinar Young Faculty Award (YFA) Proposers Day

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals have emerged as a new class of materials with diverse electronic properties. This is best exemplified by graphene, and..

Strontium titanate is a bulk insulator that becomes superconducting at remarkably low carrier densities. Even more enigmatic properties become..

David Snoke will be giving six lectures at 2 PM on Mondays, May 29, June 5, June 19, June 26, July 3, and July 10, in G-10 Allen Hall. The basic..

Generation of high harmonics of light fields had led to numerous scientific and technological advancements since its discovery 30 years ago,..

The annual PQI signature event will cover a wide range of topics in quantum science and engineering by featuring prominent invited keynote lecturers and highlighting the current research of PQI members. All talks are colloquium-style and accessible to a broad audience.

Advancements in nanoscale engineering of oxide interfaces and heterostructures have led to discoveries of emergent phenomena and new artificial..

As Interim Chair of Temple University’s Physics Department, May 20, 2015 was a normal day for me filled with work on my class, research, promotion of..

Reception Immediately following in Mellon Institute Lobby

2D layered materials are like paper: they can be colored, stitched, stacked, and folded to form integrated devices with atomic thickness. In this..

The PQI Quantum Day will bring Taylor-Allderdice High School students to our campuses to experience a day as a physicist, a chemist, or an engineer!

One of the remarkable features of spins in the solid state is the enormous range of time-scales over which coherent manipulation is possible. If one..

Devices that combined electricity with moving parts were crucial to the very earliest electronic communications. Today, electromechanical structures..

Storing and processing information using quantum two level systems (qubits) promises tremendous speed-up for certain computational tasks like finding..

The PQI Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series is held in the framework of the Year of Diversity at Pitt to celebrate women scientists. All talks are colloquium-style and open to the public.

Problem solving is a major emphasis area of physics education that has been studied extensively over the past several decades. Frequently, physics..

The PQI Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series is held in the framework of the Year of Diversity at Pitt to celebrate women scientists. All talks are colloquium-style and open to the public. Change in location: the seminar will be held in the O'Hara Student Center Ballroom

The Kagome Lattice Heisenberg Model is one of the simplest realistic spin models with a quantum spin-liquid ground state. We discuss the current..

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics to Kosterlitz, Thouless and Haldane honors a new set of ideas and theoretical formalism that has gradually become the..

The magnetization of a magnetic material can be reversed by using electric currents that transport spin angular momentum. This was predicted in..

Fundamental understanding of molecular structure and chemical reactivity at complex interfaces is key to many technological applications ranging from..

This talk will provide an overview of our group’s work using both standard and atypical high-performance computational chemistry modeling to..

Ballistic propagation and the light-like dispersion of graphene charge carriers make graphene an attractive platform for optics-inspired graphene..

Abstract: Since the early days of studying electron dynamics in solid state systems, experimental capabilities have taken great strides – from..

Discussions of the infamous measurement problem of quantum foundations tend to focus on how the output of a measurement, the pointer position, can be..

Gertrude E. and John M. Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering (PINSE) Nano-Fabrication and Characterization Facility Overview and..

The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry and Physics are considered by many to be the most prestigious award available in science. The..

What is called "orthodox" quantum mechanics, as presented in standard foundational discussions, relies on two substantive assumptions --- the..

The field of spintronics, or magnetic electronics, is maturing and giving rise to new subfields. An important ingredient to the vitality of magnetism..

The size reduction and economics of integrated circuits, captured since the 1960’s in the form of Moore’s Law, is under serious challenge. Current..

Hugh Everett III presented pure wave mechanics, sometimes referred to as the many-worlds interpretation, as a solution to the quantum measurement..

We are at a time where the electronics industry is feeling pressure from two sides on the small scale we are facing the fundamental physical limits..

The term “nanofabrication” encompasses the myriad of techniques that can be used to make nanostructures, but only a small subset can make the..

Carbon materials have extraordinary properties, but utilizing these properties in applications requires a deep understanding of the materials..

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are interesting in part because their electron density can be varied in situ by transferring charge from nearby..

The high energy density and low cost of lithium-ion batteries have created a revolution in personal electronics through laptops, tablets, smart..

Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy, and in particular its extension to multidimensional techniques, can tell us a lot about solvation dynamics,..

Quantum transport theory yields the celebrated Landauer formula for the conductance of a two-terminal device at zero bias in terms of T(EF,0), the..

Many of the most relevant chemical properties of matter depend explicitly on atomistic details, rendering a first principles approach mandatory. Alas..

Recent research has shown the Many-Body Localised phase to be a robust state of matter, thus furthering renewed interest in the quantum dynamics of..

While both spin dynamics and electron orbital motion have been separately studied for many decades, we are just beginning to probe and understand the..

The Iterated Stockholder Atom (ISA) algorithm [1] is proving to be one of the most interesting methods for atoms‐in‐a‐molecule (AIM): it leads to a..

When metal nanoparticles are placed on different mezoporous or microporous oxide supports the catalytic turnover rates and selectivities markedly..

A superconductor is a homogeneous quantum condensate of Cooper pairs, each formed by binding two electrons into a zero-spin, zero-momentum eigenstate..

For some reason, the theory of the interaction of light with graphene, nanotubes, graphite, etc. got off on the wrong foot 15 years ago. The..

Branched flow results from a common situation involving wave or ray propagation through weakly deflecting random media for long path lengths. In..

We study energy transport at high temperature in the thermal phase of the disordered Heisenberg chain [1]. Starting from nonequilibrium initial..

Advances in solid-state devices have been enabled by the introduction of new materials platforms and their subsequent improvements in carrier..

I will present the first realizations of double quantum dots in dual-gate nanowire transistors. We have observed the spin-blockade effect (useful for spin readout), electrically-driven hole-spin resonance, and, very recently, we obtained the first proof of concept of a CMOS hole-spin qubit.

Dr. Huang received a B.S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University, China in 2000. After receiving an M.S. in 2002 also from Nanjing University, he..

This colloquium will describe a program developed for a desktop computer which carries out a time-dependent simulation of the core of an exploding..

The quest of new states of matter in the time domain and the need for ultrafast control of material properties have been fueled by the recent advance..

Ballistic propagation and the light-like dispersion of graphene charge carriers make graphene an attractive platform for optics-inspired graphene..

PQI Science2015 Information PQI is partnering with the organizers of Science2015 in two distinct ways: PQI Poster Session Where: Alumni Hall 1st..

PQI2014: Quantum Technologies 9-11 April 2014 Our second annual PQI event will be held from Wednesday April 9th to Friday April 11th, 2014. The first..