Nanoscale Superconductivity and Magnetism

MTI Mini-Conference

November 11-15, 2002

Building 223, Conference Room B-002

 

 

 

Monday, November 11

 

 8:45-9:00                  George Crabtree

                                    Welcome

 9:00-9:45                  Sam Bader

                                    Overview

 9:45-10:30                Igor Lyuksyutov

Strong Nanoscale Magnetic Fields: Pinning and Trapping

10:30-11:00               Coffee Break

11:00-11:45               Piero Martinoli

Glass-like Vortex Dynamics in Regular Arrays of Proximity-Effect Coupled SNS Josephson Junctions

11:45-12:30               Alexander Golubov

                                    Mechanisms of 0 - pi transition in SFS Josephson junctions

12:30-2:00                 Lunch

  2:00-2:45                 Leonid Levitov

Dynamical spin-electric coupling in a quantum dot (single-electron spin detection?).

2:45-3:30                   Charles Marcus

  3:30-4:00                 Coffee Break

  4:00-4:45                 Wai Kwok

Mesoscopic and Nanoscience in the Superconductivity & Magnetism Group

  4:45-5:30                 Valerii Pokrovskii

                                    Hysteretic motion of domain wall driven by the ac field

 

 


Tuesday, November 12

 

  9:00-9:45                 Andrei Shelankov

                                    Charge transfer counting statistics revisited

  9:45-10:30               Yuli Nazarov

Interaction, transmission distribution and electromagnetic environment

10:30-11:00               Coffee Break

11:00-11:45               Vladimir Kravchenko

                                    Spin injection into a ballistic semiconductor microstructure

11:45-12:30               Iiya Gruzberg

Tale States in Superconductors with Magnetic Impurities

12:30-2:00                 Lunch

 

 2:00-2:45                  Norman Birge

Electron Dephasing and Energy Exchange in Mesoscopic Metal Wires

 2:45-3:30                  Dale Van Harlingen

 

 3:30-4:00                  Coffee Break

 4:00-4:45                  Dima Gutman

                                    To be announced

 4:45-5:30                  Michael Kiselev

Electric Field Induced Kondo Tunneling through double Quantum Dot

 

 


Wednesday, November 13

 

 9:00-9:45                  Alexey Bezryadin

Superconductor-insulator transition in thin wires: bosons or fermions?

 9:45-10:30                Nina Markovic

                                    Superconductivity in MoGe Nanowires

10:30-11:00               Coffee Break

11:00-11:45               Veniamin Kozub

Effect of bias on indirect exchange within magnetic nanostructures

11:45-12:30               Dmitri Maslov

Magnetic quantum oscillations in 2D: effects of interactions and disorder

12:30-2:00                 Lunch

 2:00-2:45                  Alexander Savchenko

Interactions in 2D electron and hole systems in the ballistic regime

 2:45-3:30                  Alexei Suslov

H-T phase diagram of the metamagnetic transition in URu_2Si_2

 3:30-4:00                  Coffee Break

 4:00-4:45                  Yaroslav Bazaliy

Distinguishing between coherent magnetization rotation and generation of incoherent spin waves in a spin-transfer effect experiment

4:45-5:30                   Rut Besseling

Dynamics and melting of vortices in flow channels in superconducting films

 

 

 


Thursday, November 14

 

 9:00-9:45                  Eugene Chudnovsky

                                    Superradiance from Crystals of Molecular Nanomagnets

 9:45-10:30                Robert Shekhter

                                    Spin and charge transport through nanomagnets

10:30-11:00               Coffee Break

11:00-11:45               Victor Mochshalkov

                                    Vortex-Antivortex Patterns in Nanostructured Superconductors

11:45-12:30               Venkat Chandrasekhar

                                    Magnetization dynamics of Small Ferromagnetic Particles

12:30-2:00                 Lunch

 2:00-2:45                  Bertrand Reulet

Measurement of the third order moment of current fluctuations in tunnel junctions   

 2:45-3:30                  Daniel Prober

Quantum Shot Noise in an Andreev Interferometer, and Initial Experiments on Higher Moments of the Non-equilibrium Noise

 3:30-4:00                  Coffee Break

 4:00-4:45                  Leonid Gorelik

Vibrational instability due to coherent tunneling of electrons

 4:45-5:30                  Eugene Bezugliy

Current statistics and transparency distributions for normal mesoscopic structures

 5:30 – 6:15               Nikolay Sinitsyn

                                    Landau-Zener transitions in mesoscopic systems

 

 


Friday, November 15

 

 9:00-9:45                  Valery Ryazanov

Proximity effect and spontaneous vortex phase in planar SF-structures

 9:45-10:30                Zhigang Jiang

Thermal Conductance Measurement on Andreev Interferometer

10:30-11:00      Coffee Break

11:00-11:45               Dmitri Feldman

Universal asymmetry of I-V characteristics in quantum wires

11:45-12:30               Andrei Lopatin

Quantum tunneling between paramagnetic and superconducting states of a nanometer-cale superconducting grain placed in a magnetic field

12:30-2:00                 Lunch

 2:00-2:45                  Revaz Ramazashvili

                                    Ward identities for disordered interacting metals

2:45-3:30                   Andrey Fraerman

Influence of ferromagnetic nanoparticles on the critical current of Josephson Junction

3:30-4:15                   Vsevolod Gantmakher

4:15 – 5:00                Yuri Galperin

                                    Nonlinear Cyclotron Resonance in 2DEG in THz Region

5:00-5:15                   Closing