Quantum Critical Phenomena
Statics and Dynamics
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September 25-27, 2008 in Toronto, Canada
Meeting schedule
Thursday, 25 September
11:00-13:15
Registration, coffee, lunch
13:15-13:30
Opening remarks
13:30-14:15
Stephan Haas
Information Theoretical Measures of Quantum Phase Transitions
14:15-15:00
Gerard Milburn
Quantum Jahn-Teller bifurcation in ciruit QED
15:00-15:45
Coffee/informal discussion
15:45-16:30
Peter Young
Size dependence of minimum gap in the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
16:30-17:00
Jingfu Zhang
Direct observation of quantum criticality in Ising spin chains
17:00-19:00
Dinner
19:00-19:45
Piers Coleman
Quantum Phase Transitions: frontier challenges in condensed matter physics
19:45-20:30
Thomas Vojta
Effects of Dissipation on quantum critical points with disorder
20:30-21:00
Bill Atkinson
Electodynamic response of coexisting amorphous magnetic and superconducting phases
Friday, 26 September
9:00-9:45
Jan Kycia
LiHoF experiment and review
9:45-10:30
Gabriel Aeppli
LiHoxY1-xF4: The road between solid state ion trap and quantum critical ferromagnet
10:30-11:00
Coffee/informal discussion
11:00-11:45
Moshe Schechter
Dilute anisotropic dipolar systems as random field Ising ferromagnets
11:45-12:15
Michel Gingras
Random Field and Spin Glass Physics in LiHoYF4 and Assessment of the (Dy,Ho)(OH)3 Materials as new Transverse Field Ising Systems
12:15-14:00
Lunch
14:00-14:45
Louis Taillefer
Quantum critical behaviour in cuprates
14:45-15:30
Tanja Cuk
A pressure-tuned electronic tansition in lightly doped Bi2212
15:30-16:00
Coffee/informal discussion
16:00-16:45
Senthil
Critical Fermi surfaces and non-fermi-liquid metals
16:45-17:15
Sung-Sik Lee
Stability of the U(1) spin liquid with spinon Fermi surface in 2+1 dimensions
17:15-17:45
Nayana Shah
Quantum phase transitions in low dimensional superconductors
17:45-18:15
Adrian del Maestro
Infinite randomness and the superconductor-metal transition
19:30-22:00
Banquet
Saturday, 27 September
9:00-9:45
Dietrich Belitz
First order versus second order transitions in quantum magnets
9:45-10:30
Leon Balents
Quantum criticality in orbitally degenerate insulator FeSc2S4
10:30-11:15
Coffee/informal discussion
11:15-12:00
Matthew Fisher
Critical quantum spin liquid on the triangular zigzag strip with ring exchange
12:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-14:45
Subir Sachdev
Dynamics and transport of the Z_2 spin liquid
14:45-15:30
Nikolai Prokof'ev
Search for Deconfined Criticality: SU(2) Dejavu
15:30-16:00
Coffee/informal discussion
16:00-16:45
Andrew Mackenzie
Thermodynamics of phase formation in Sr3Ru2O7
16:45-17:00
Concluding Remark
17:00
Meeting ends
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