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Group Meetings

All meetings of the Theoretical Physics group are held at 11am in Room 201 of the AD Building.

Upcoming Meetings

Date	Speaker	Topic
23/2	Xia-Ji Liu	S. Tewari et al. Quantum computation using vortices and Majorana zero modes of a px+ipy superfluid of fermionic cold atoms PRL 98, 010506 (2007)
24/2	Margaret Reid	Own work
29/2	Laura Rosales-Zarate	M. Rontani Tunneling theory of two interacting atoms in a trap arXiv preprint 1111.3611 (2011)
1/3	All	Picnic at Olinda
7/3	Bryan Dalton	L. I. Plimak et al. Langevin equations for interacting fermions and Cooper-like pairing in trapped one-dimensional fermions PRA 64, 063409 (2001)
9/3	Rodney Polkinghorne	Own work
14/3	Bogdan Opanchuk	K. Burrage & P. M. Burrage High strong order explicit Runge-Kutta methods for stochastic ordinary differential equations Applied Numerical Mathematics 22, 81 (1996)
21/3	Rodney Polkinghorne	T. Yanagisawa Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in two-dimensional Hubbard model evidenced from quantum Monte Carlo calculations of susceptibilities Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 79, 063708 (2010)
23/3	Bryan Dalton	Own work
28/3	Peter Drummond	E. Bettelheim & P. B. Wiegmann Universal Fermi distribution of semiclassical nonequilibrium Fermi states PRB 84 085102 (2011)
4/4	Hui Hu	Dark deeds with big lasers at NIST
6/4	Xia-Ji Liu	Own work
11/4	Margaret Reid	TBA
18/4	Alexey Orel	A. Jellal et al. Entanglement in Coupled Harmonic Oscillators via Unitary Transformation arXiv preprint 1106.3894
20/4	Peter Drummond	Own work
25/4	All	New programme

Past Group Meetings

Date	Speaker	Topic
Oct 7	Hui Hu	Topological phase transitions and topological superfluids
Sep 23	Qiongyi He	Squeezing, enganglement and phase in a double-well BEC
Jul 29	Xia-Ji Liu	Spin orbit coupling in a BEC
May 20	Bogdan Opanchuk	Fast harmonic decomposition
May 20	Tim Vaughan	Finite time-step generation of point process trajectories
May 13	Margaret Reid	Quantifying Einstein's "action at a distance"
May 6	Ai-Xi Chen	Quantum coherence and optical solitons in semi-conducting quantum wells
April 15	Laura Rosales Zarate	Grassmann algebra and Gaussian operator represenations of Fermionic states
March 25	Peter Drummond	Summary of recent results of Theory Group
March 18	Rodney Polkinghorne	Variational approach to Quantum Dynamics
February 18	Hui Hu	Scattering in 2D dipolar Fermi gases
November 26	Tim Vaughan	Prior-inclusive Retrodiction Methods
November 19	Bogdan Opanchuk	BEC simulations using the Wigner Representation
November 5	Ai-Xi Chen	Novel uses for Rydberg Atoms
October 20	Margaret Reid	Bell Inequalities for Multipartite Systems
October 8	Qiongyi He	Entanglement Criteria for Higher Spin Systems
October 1	Peter Drummond	Variational Algorithms for Quantum Dynamics
September 24	Hui Hu	The Finite Temperature Contact of an Interacting Fermi System
September 17	Xia-Ji Liu	Phase Transitions in Ultracold Fermionic Systems
September 10	Tim Vaughan	Hidden Markov Models and the Forward-Backward Algorithm
September 3	Shi-Guo Peng	Spectroscopy of Trapped Interacting Fermions
July 16	Bogdan Opanchuk	The Wigner Representation and Phase Space Methods
July 9	Bryan Dalton	Double-Well BEC Interferometry
June 25	Peter Drummond	Exact Variational Methods for Quantum Dynamics
June 11	Qiongyi He	Entanglement Criteria
June 4	Margaret Reid	Spin Squeezing and Entanglement
May 28	Shi-Guo Peng	Confinement Induced Resonance and Gaussian Monte Carlo
May 21	Hui Hu	Two-component Fermi Gases in Quasi-2D
May 7	Xia-Ji Liu	Ground States of Interacting Fermi Systems
April 30	Peng Zou	Dynamic Structure Factor of Fermi Gas within Mean Field Theory
April 23	Saeed Bohloul	Closed Timelike Curves in General Relativity
April 16	Tim Vaughan	Quantum Monte Carlo and Retrodiction
April 9	Bogdan Opanchuk	Quantum Dynamics and CUDA
March 26	Hui Dong	Ferromagnetism in repulsive ultra-cold fermi gases
March 19	Qiongyi He	EPR Entanglement using Double-Well BEC
March 12	Peter Drummond	Variational approach to Quantum Dynamics

Past Journal Club Meetings

Date	Speaker	Paper
October 19	Chris Vale	Mark J.H. Ku et al., arXiv:1110.3309 (Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
October 5	Marcus Lingham	Yefsah et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 130401 (2011) (Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
April 13	Margaret Reid	A.J. Leggett and A. Garg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 857 (1985)
March 30	Peter Drummond	A. Bednorz and W. Belzig, Phys. Rev. B 83 125304 (2011)
February 16	Xia-Ji Liu	B. Fröhlich et al., arXiv:1012.0049v2
February 9	Tim Vaughan	S.M. Barnett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2455 (2001)
November 23	Alexandre Akoulchine	A. G. Radnaev et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 894 (2010) (Joint meeting with experimentalists in EN127.)
November 11	Qiongyi He	A.P. Hines, R.H. McKenzie, and G.J. Milburn, Phys. Rev. A 67, 013609 (2003)
November 3	Hui Hu	D.T. Son and E.G. Thompson, Phys. Rev. A 81, 063634 (2010)
October 13	Bogdan Opanchuk	Robert R. Tucci, arXiv:1001.5200v2
September 28	Margaret Reid	Scott B. Papp, et al. Science 324, 764 (2009)
September 7	Rodney Polkinghorne	E. T. Jaynes, SIAM-AMS Proceedings 14, 151 (1984)
September 1	Shi-Guo Peng	Suzuki et al., Phys. Rev. A 80, 033601 (2009)
August 18	Tim Vaughan	Taylor and Higgs, J. Theor. Biol. 203, 419 (2000)
July 28	Tim Vaughan	Rouzine et al., J. Theor. Pop. Biol. 73, 24 (2008)
July 21	Chris Vale	Gaebler et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 569 (2010) (Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
July 7	Xia-Ji Liu	Lompe et al., arXiv:1006.2241v1
June 16	Peter Drummond	K. Sakmann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett 103, 220601 (2009)
June 9	Qiongyi He	M. S. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. A 65, 032323 (2002)
May 26	Hui Hu	H. P. Buchler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090402 (2010)
May 19	Shi-Guo Peng	L. Hackermuller et al., Science 327, 1621 (2010).
May 12	Peter Drummond	M. Hillery and M. S. Zubairy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050503 (2006).
May 5	Peter Drummond	Julien Borghetti et al., Nature 464, 873 (2010).
April 28	Tim Vaughan	D. Hochberg et al., Phys. Rev. E 73, 066109 (2006)
April 21	Bogdan Opanchuk	Xiaofei Huang, arXiv:1004.2210v1
April 14	Bryan Dalton	J. A. Dunningham and K. Burnett, Phys. Rev. A 70, 033601 (2004).
April 7	Hui Dong	C. Jarzynski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2690 (1997)
March 31	Tim Vaughan	R. T. Cox, Am. J. Phys. 14, 1 (1946)
March 24	Peter Drummond	O'Connell et al., Nature (doi:10.1038/nature0867)
March 17	Saeed Bohloul	Marshall et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 130401 (2003)
March 10	Xia-Ji Liu	Schirotzek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230402 (2009)

Potential Papers for Journal Clubs

If you'd like a paper to appear on this list, please send the details to Tim Vaughan.