Program
Topical Areas of QFS2009
I. Cold atoms
Cold trapped atoms - lattice BEC, fermions, BEC-BCS transition
II. Order and disorder
Superfluids, unconventional superconductivity
III. Helium liquids
Paradigms for broken symmetry in the universe
IV. Low-dimensional systems
Quantum phase transitions, quantum critical phenomena
V. Mechanical systems
Systems in the quantum limit, resonators, and cavity oscillators
VI. Quantum solids
Transport and dynamics in quantum solids, notably 4He, including vacancies, dislocations, and grain boundaries
VII. Vortices
Vortex structure, vortex phases - quantum liquids, quantum gases and unconventional superconductors
VIII. Quantum turbulence
Vortex dynamics, from single vortices to quantum turbulence
IX. Techniques
Low temperature experimental or theoretical methods
X. Other
Program
- Download a printable version of the QFS2009 program (PDF)
- See a schedule for the Vortex workshop August 11-12
| Wed. Aug. 5 | |||
| 15:00 | 19:00 | registration and reception (Norris Center, 2nd floor) | |
| Thurs. Aug. 6 | |||
| 8:30 | 9:00 | coffee | |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | welcome/announcements | |
| Session A: Broken Symmetry | |||
| 9:05 | 9:50 | invited A1 (plenary) | |
| George Pickett - Cosmological Phenomena Simulated in the Laboratory | |||
| 9:50 | 10:10 | invited A2 | |
| Yuriy Bunkov - 3He Experiments: Insights into Cosmology and Atomic Physics | |||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | invited A3 | |
| Daniel Golubchik - Spontaneous Flux Generation in a Superconducting Film | |||
| 10:30 | 10:50 | coffee break | |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | invited A4 | |
| Yutaka Saski - Chaotic Decay of Long-Lived NMR Signal in Superfluid 3He-B | |||
| 11:10 | 11:30 | invited A5 | |
| Anton Vorontsov - Broken Spatial and Temporal Symmetries in 3He and Superconductors | |||
| 11:30 | 11:50 | invited A6 | |
| Matthias Eschrig - Spin Supercurrents through Superconducting-Ferromagnetic Junctions | |||
| 11:50 | 13:15 | lunch | |
| Session B: Exotic Superconductivity | |||
| 13:15 | 14:00 | invited B1 (plenary) | |
| Vladimir Mineev - Recent Developments in Unconventional Superconductivity Theory | |||
| 14:00 | 14:20 | invited B2 | |
| Dai Aoki - Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Uranium Compounds | |||
| 14:20 | 14:40 | invited B3 | |
| Catherine Kallin - Time-reversal Symmetry Breaking in Sr2RuO4 | |||
| 14:40 | 15:00 | invited B4 | |
| Dale Van Harlingen - The Search for Complex Order Parameter Symmetry in Unconventional Superconductors | |||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | coffee break | |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | invited B5 | |
| Matthias Graf - Parasitic Magnetism in the Superconducting Phase of CeCoIn5 | |||
| 15:50 | 16:10 | invited B6 | |
| Morten Eskildsen - Paramagnetism in the Superconducting Vortex Phases of CeCoIn5 | |||
| 16:10 | 16:40 | 8 invited poster summaries (IPS/AB) | |
| 16:40 | 18:00 | poster session AB | |
| 20:00 | Ravinia concert, Jonathan Biss pianist | ||
| Fri. Aug. 7 | |||
| 8:30 | 9:00 | coffee | |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | announcements | |
| Session C: Charges & Spins in Quantum Fluids & Solids | |||
| 9:05 | 9:50 | invited C1 (plenary) | |
| Kimitoshi Kono - Electrons on the Surface of Superfluid 3He | |||
| 9:50 | 10:10 | invited C2 | |
| Stephen Lyon - Electrons on Helium - Spin Qubits | |||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | invited C3 | |
| Humphrey Maris - Experiments with Single Electrons in Liquid Helium | |||
| 10:30 | 10:50 | coffee break | |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | invited C4 | |
| Daisuke Takahashi - Critical Velocity of 2D Snowballs Below the Free Surface of 4He-II | |||
| 11:10 | 11:30 | invited C5 | |
| David Lee - Stabilization of H and D Atoms in Kr Nano-clusters Immersed in Superfluid He | |||
| 11:30 | 11:50 | invited C6 | |
| Igor Todoshchenko - Nuclear Spin Order and Faceting of 3He | |||
| 11:50 | 13:15 | lunch | |
| Session D: 2D Quantum Liquids & Solids | |||
| 13:15 | 14:00 | invited D1 (plenary) | |
| John Saunders - Experiments on 2D Liquid and Solid Helium | |||
| 14:00 | 14:20 | invited D2 | |
| Daisuke Sato - Evidences for a Self-Condensed Liquid State in 2D 3He on Graphite | |||
| 14:20 | 14:40 | invited D3 | |
| Keiya Shirahama - 4He in Nanoporous Media: QPT, LBEC and possible SuperSolidity | |||
| 14:40 | 15:00 | invited D4 | |
| Henri Godfrin - Neutron Scattering and Zero Sound in 2D 3He | |||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | coffee break | |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | invited D5 | |
| Hidehiko Ishimoto - Two-dimensional Anti-ferromagnetic Solid 3He in High Magnetic Fields | |||
| 15:50 | 16:10 | invited D6 | |
| Mark Meisel - Magnetic Phase Diagram of the 2D Quantum AFM Cu(tn)Cl2 | |||
| 16:10 | 16:40 | 8 invited poster summaries (IPS/CD) | |
| 16:40 | 18:00 | poster session CD | |
| 19:00 | 22:00 | JLTP Editorial Board meeting (Hilton) | |
| Sat. Aug. 8 | |||
| 8:30 | 9:00 | coffee | |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | announcements | |
| Session E: Quantum Solids & Glasses | |||
| 9:05 | 9:50 | invited E1 (plenary) | |
| Sebastien Balibar - Supersolidity: Polycrystals vs. Single Crystals | |||
| 9:50 | 10:10 | invited E2 | |
| John Beamish - Shear Modulus of Solid 4He: Defects & Dynamics | |||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | invited E3 | |
| Joshua West - Supersolid Behavior in Confined Geometry | |||
| 10:30 | 10:50 | coffee break | |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | invited E4 | |
| Alexander Andreev - Momentum Deficit in Quantum Glasses | |||
| 11:10 | 11:30 | invited E5 | |
| Séamus Davis - Torsional Oscillator Studies of Solid 4He “superglass” | |||
| 11:30 | 11:50 | invited E6 | |
| Alexander Balatsky - A Possible Quantum Glassy Nature of Solid 4He at Low Temperatures 4He at Low Temperatures | |||
| 12:45 | 18:00 | conference excursion (buses leave from the Block gallery, immediately south of Norris center) | |
| Chicago Architecture Boat Tour | |||
| 19:30 | 22:00 | conference banquet (Louis Room, Norris Center) | |
| Sun. Aug. 9 | |||
| 8:30 | 9:00 | coffee | |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | announcements | |
| Session F: Superfluid Phases of 3He | |||
| 9:05 | 9:50 | invited F1 (plenary) | |
| Doug Osheroff - Nucleation of 3He-B | |||
| 9:50 | 10:10 | invited F2 | |
| Yoonseok Lee - Suppression of the B-like Phase of 3He in Aerogel by Magnetic Field | |||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | invited F3 | |
| Osamu Ishikawa - 4th Sound of 3He in Aerogel | |||
| 10:30 | 10:50 | coffee break | |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | invited F4 | |
| Akira Yamaguchi - 3He-A1 Mechanical Spin Pump | |||
| 11:10 | 11:30 | invited F5 | |
| Satoshi Murakawa - Transverse acoustic impedance of the A1 and A2 phases of 3He | |||
| 11:30 | 11:50 | invited F6 | |
| John Davis - Transverse Acoustics in 3He-B | |||
| 11:50 | 12:50 | Moses Chan/ Bob Richardson - “Helium Supply” discussion | |
| (box lunch provided on sign-up) | |||
| 11:50 | 13:15 | lunch | |
| Session G: The Quantum Limit | |||
| 13:15 | 14:00 | invited G1 (plenary) | |
| Dirk Bouwmeester - Opto-mechanical Cooling and Quantum Superpositions of a Mirror | |||
| 14:00 | 14:20 | invited G2 | |
| Jukka Pekola - Electronic Refrigeration at the Quantum Limit | |||
| 14:20 | 14:40 | invited G3 | |
| Eddy Collin - Novel NEMS and MEMS Structures for Low Temperature Physics | |||
| 14:40 | 15:00 | invited G4 | |
| John Owers-Bradley - Dissipation in Gold Nanomechanical Resonators at Low Temperatures | |||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | coffee break | |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | invited G5 | |
| Keith Schwab - Nanomechanical Devices in the Quantum Limit | |||
| 15:50 | 16:10 | invited G6 | |
| Jeevak Parpia - Stress and Dissipation in Disordered Silicon Nitride | |||
| 16:10 | 16:40 | 8 invited poster summaries (IPS/EFG) | |
| 16:40 | 18:00 | poster session EFG | |
| Mon. Aug. 10 | |||
| 8:30 | 9:00 | coffee | |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | announcements | |
| Session H: Quantum Vortices | |||
| 9:05 | 9:50 | invited H1 (plenary) | |
| Erkki Thuneberg - Vortex Structures in Superfluids: Examples in 3He | |||
| 9:50 | 10:10 | invited H2 | |
| Ryosuke Ishiguro - Rotating 3He in Narrow Cylinders - Intrinsic Angular Momentum of 3He-A | |||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | invited H3 | |
| Takao Mizusaki - Spin-Wave and Vortex Excitations of Rotating 3He-A Slabs | |||
| 10:30 | 10:50 | coffee break | |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | invited H4 | |
| Viktor Tseplin - Generation and Detection of Ballistic Vortex Rings in Superfluid 3He-B | |||
| 11:10 | 11:30 | invited H5 | |
| Andrei Golov - Interacting Vortex Rings in Superfluid 4He in the Low-Temperature Limit | |||
| 11:30 | 11:50 | invited H6 | |
| Makoto Tsubota - Dynamics of Charged Quantized Vortices | |||
| 11:50 | 13:15 | lunch | |
| Session I: Quantum Turbulence | |||
| 13:15 | 14:00 | invited I1 (plenary) | |
| Paul Walmsley - Quantum Turbulence in 4He | |||
| 14:00 | 14:20 | invited I2 | |
| Ladislav Skrbek - Generation of Turbulence by Vibrating Forks in He-II | |||
| 14:20 | 14:40 | invited I3 | |
| German Kolmakov - Energy Cascade in Acoustic Turbulence of 4He | |||
| 14:40 | 15:00 | invited I4 | |
| Risto Hänninen - Theory and Simulation of Quantum Turbulence | |||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | coffee break | |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | invited I5 | |
| Matthew Paoletti - Quantitative Characterization of Quantum Turbulence | |||
| 15:50 | 16:10 | invited I6 | |
| Vanderlei Bagnato - Vortex Generation and Emergence of Turbulence in an Oscillating BEC | |||
| 16:10 | 16:40 | 8 invited poster summaries (IPS/HIJ) | |
| 16:40 | 18:00 | poster session HIJ | |
| 19:00 | pub crawl/blues and jazz (meeting point -Foster street train station) | ||
| 19:00 | quantum turbulence workshop | ||
| chair: Makoto Tsubota | |||
| QT by vibrating structures | |||
| 19:05 | 19:25 | Shaun Fisher - Quantum Turbulence at Low Temperatures: Generation and Detection using Vibrating Structures | |
| 19:25 | 19:40 | Hideo Yano - Transition of Steady Quantum Turbulence Generated by Oscillating Structures in Superfluid 4He | |
| 19:40 | 19:55 | Eduard Ya. Rudavskii - Transition to Turbulence and Critical Velocity in Superfluid Mixtures of 3He in 4He | |
| 19:55 | 20:10 | Risto Hänninen - Universal Onset of Quantum Turbulence in Oscillating Flows and Crossover to Steady Flows | |
| 20:10 | 20:20 | coffee break | |
| Visualization | |||
| 20:20 | 20:35 | Wei Guo - Quantitative Study of the Normal-fluid Flow using Helium Molecules | |
| Numerical simulation | |||
| 20:35 | 20:50 | Shoji Fujiyama - Vortex Line Density Fluctuation of Quantum Turbulence: Steady State of Counterflow Turbulence | |
| Cold atoms | |||
| 20:50 | 21:05 | Angela White - Probing a Mini-turbulent state in an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate | |
| Tues. Aug. 11 | |||
| 8:30 | 9:00 | coffee | |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | announcements | |
| Session J: Ultra-Cold Atoms | |||
| 9:05 | 9:50 | invited J1 (plenary) | |
| Wolfgang Ketterle - Ultracold fermions with strong interactions | |||
| 9:50 | 10:10 | invited J2 | |
| David Clément - Inelastic Light Scattering Studies of Correlated States of Bose Gases | |||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | invited J3 | |
| Jérôme Estève - Splitting a BEC in two: Number Fluctuations and Squeezing | |||
| 10:30 | 10:50 | coffee break | |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | invited J4 | |
| Nathan Gemelke - Bosonic Mott Insulators and Fractional Quantum Hall Physics | |||
| 11:10 | 11:30 | invited J5 | |
| Markus Greiner - Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices | |||
| 11:30 | 11:50 | invited J6 | |
| Nandini Trivedi - Prediction and Detection of Larkin-Ovchinnikov States for Imbalanced Fermi Gases in Optical Lattices | |||
| 12:00 | 12:20 | conference closing session | |
| 14:00 | 18:00 | Vortex workshop | |
| chairs: Matthias Eschrig and Jim Sauls | |||
| 19:00 | Chicago Cubs baseball game | ||
| Wed. Aug.12 | |||
| 9:00 | 16:00 | Vortex workshop | |
