International Argonne Fall Workshop on Nanophysics V:
Nanoscale Superconductivity and Magnetism
Argonne, November 14-18, 2005
Monday, November 14
8:45-9:00
Sam Bader
Opening
9:00-9:30
Konstantin Efetov
Anatoly Larkin - his life in science
9:30-10:00
Allen Goldman
Electrostatic tuning of superconducting transition
10:00-10:30
Lev Bulaevskii
Radiation from a single Josephson voltage biased junction
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
Norman Birge
Magnetization-dependent Tc shift in F/S/F trilayers with a strong ferromagnet
11:30-12:00
Dmitrii Polyakov
Low-T Transport Induced by Coulomb Interaction in an Anderson Insulator
12:00-12:30
Alexei Tsvelik
Doped spin liquid: Luttinger Sum Rule and Superconductivity
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-2:30
Heinrich Jaeger
Large self-assembled quantum dot arrays: Fabrication strategies and tunneling transport properties
2:30-3:00
Vladimir Goldman
Observation of an Aharonov-Bohm Superperiod: Fractional Statistics of Laughlin Quasiparticle
3:00-3:30
Andrey Rogachev
Coulomb blockade and coherent single-electron transport in nanowires undergoing a superconductor-insulator transition
3:30-4:00
Break
4:00-4:30
Boris Spivak
Transport in Two Dimensional Electronic Micro-emulsions
4:30-5:00
Vladimir Pudalov
Temperature and field dependences of the spin susceptibility in 2DE liquid
5:00-5:30
Leonid Levitov
Mach-Zender Interferometry in a Strongly Driven Qubit
5:30-6:00
Andrew Jordan
Quantum nondemolition measurement of a kicked qubit
6:00-6:30
Tuesday, November 15
9:00-9:30
Igor Lerner
Low-T decoherence and relaxation in a superconducting charge qubit
9:30-10:00
Boris Altshuler
Many-body Localization
10:00-10:30
Alex Gurevich
Current-induced phase textures and pairbreaking in artificial multilayeres and two-gap superconductors
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
Goran Karapetrov
Observation of Vortex Lattice Transitions in Superconducting Single Crystals using STM
11:30-12:00
Nikolai Kopnin
Giant oscillations of energy levels in mesoscopic superconductors
12:00-12:30
Vladimir Kogan
Dissipation in ultra-thin current-carrying uperconducting bridges; evidence for quantum tunneling of Pearl vortices
12:30-2:30
Lunch
2:30-3:00
Konstantin Efetov
Bosonization and renormalization group for a clean Fermi gas with a repulsion in arbitrary dimensions
3:00-3:30
Dale van Harlingen
Dynamics of stripe and order parameter domains in unconventional superconductors
3:30-4:00
Fabio Pistolesi
Superharmonic Josephson relation at 0-/pi-junction transition
4:00-4:30
Break
4:30-5:00
Tatyana Baturina
Superconductivity on the localization threshold: from quantum corrections to magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition
5:00-5:30
Ilya Krivorotov
Spin transfer in nanomagnets
5:30-6:00
Igor Beloborodov
Insulating state of granular superconductors in a strong coupling regime
6:00-6:30
Wednesday, November 16
9:00-9:30
Daniel Prober
Inelastic processes in thin Au films
9:30-10:00
Dmitry Abanin
Fermi-Edge Resonance and Tunneling in Nonequilibrium Electron Gas
10:00-10:30
Veniamin Kozub
Point contact between the hopping insulators: effect of magnetic field
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
Laura Adams
Signatures of Random Matrix Theory in the Discrete Energy Spectra of Shape Disordered Metallic Clusters
11:30-12:00
Boris Shklovskii
Insulator-metal transition in ion channels and water filled nanopores
12:00-12:30
Vsevolod Gantmakher
General description of quantum phase transitions applied to 3D-normal-metal-insulator and 2D-superconductor-insulator transitions
12:30-2:30
Lunch
2:30-3:00
Venkat Chandrasekhar
Charge Imbalance, Elastic Cotunneling, and Crossed Andreev Reflection: Non-Local Effects in Normal-Superconducting Systems
3:00-3:30
Dmitry Bagrets
Statistics of Current Fluctuations and Coulomb Interaction in Diffusive Conductors
3:30-4:00
Arvind Subramaniam
Multifractal wave functions on the boundary of a critical spin quantum Hall system
4:00-4:30
Break
4:30-5:00
Yasuhiro Tokura
Electron spin resonance and two qubit operation in a slanting Zeeman field
5:00-5:30
Serguei Urazhdin
Spin Transport at Magnetic Interfaces
5:30-6:00
Manuel Houzet
Domain wall superconductivity in hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers
6:00-6:30
Misha Reznikov
Measurement of counting statistics of electron transport in a tunnel junction
7:30-9:30
Thursday, November 17
9:00-9:30
Yuval Gefen
Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer as a tool to probe fractional statistics
9:30-10:00
Charles Marcus
Making Quantum Bits
10:00-10:30
Piero Martinoli
Electrostatic Modulation of the Superfluid Response of Ultrathin Superconducting La2-x SrxCuO4 Film
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
Eugene Chudnovsky
Magnetic Deflagration
11:30-12:00
Andrei Lopatin
Hopping transport in granular metals
12:00-12:30
Alex Golubov
Anomalous features of the proximity effect in unconventional superconductors
12:30-2:30
Lunch
2:30-3:00
Gleb Finkelshtein
Evolution of Kondo Effect in Carbon Nanotubes
3:00-3:30
Andrei Varlamov
Weak localization effects in granular metals
3:30-4:00
Julia Meyer
Spontaneous Spin Polarization in Quantum Wires
4:00-4:30
Break
4:30-5:00
Ivar Martin
Two-level fluctuatiors in Josephson junctions - mechanisms and diagnostics
5:00-5:30
Eugene Il'ichev
Radio-frequency method for investigation of quantum qroperties of superconducting structures.
5:30-6:00
Robert Shekhter
Quantum nanomechanics of the shuttle systems
Friday, November 18
9:00-9:30
Joakim Bergli
Models of environment and T1 relaxation in Josephson Charge Qubits
9:30-10:00
Leonid Glazman
Energy-resolved inelastic scattering off a magnetic impurity
10:00-10:30
Kristen Buchanan
Soliton pair dynamics in patterned ferromagnetic ellipses
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
Emil Yuzbashyan
Relaxation and persistent oscillations of the order parameter in the nonstationary BCS theory
11:30-12:00
Alexander Mirlin
Interaction effects on magnetooscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas
12:00-12:30
Nikolai Sinitsyn
Disorder contributions to the anomalous Hall effect
12:30-2:30
Lunch
2:30-3:00
Alexander Finkelstein
Metal-Insulator transition in 2D
3:00-3:30
Felix Von Oppen
Disorder-Induced Resistive Anomaly Near Ferromagnetic Phase Transition
3:30-3:45
Closing