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CQS Symposium on Condensate Quantum Mechanics held on April 20, 2012
Center for Complex Quantum Systems Holds Conference
Photo (left to right): Allan MacDonald, John Martinis, Dan Ralph, David Snoke, Jim Eisenstein, Linda Reichl
Exotic superfluids and spin torques were dominant themes at the CQS Symposium on Condensate Quantum Mechanics, held on the UT Austin campus on April 20, 2012.
At the Symposium, Jim Eisenstein (CalTech) described excitonic superfluids that form in quantum Hall bilayers and David Snoke (U. Pittsburgh) showed that polaritons can also exist in a superfluid state. Both excitons and polaritons are composite particles with finite lifetime.
John Martinis (UC Santa Barbara) presented current progress on building a quantum computer using superconductors, and Dan Ralph (Cornell) described important technological advances associated with the discovery of spin torque phenomena.
Four UT Austin postdocs and students (J. Kim, D. Pesin, R. Cheng, and E. Gust) also gave short presentations on their research.
More than seventy UT Austin faculty, postdocs, and students attended the all-day event.