Seminar Archive

Seminars From 2020 and 2021

• Seminar: Gianluca Stefanucci, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 3pm Wed 2nd March 2022
• Seminar: Liam Scarlett (Curtin University, Australia); 2pm, Wed 23 February 2022
• Seminar: Nicole Yunger Halpern (NIST, QuICS, University of Maryland); Wed 09 February 2022
• Seminar: Nicholas Chancellor, Durham University, 3pm Wed 19 January 2022
• Seminar: Jakub Benda (Charles University, Prague); Wed 8 December
• Seminar: Tijs Karman (Radboud University); Wed 3 November (3pm tbc)
• Seminar: Dr Hendrik Weimer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
• Seminar: Non-stationary quantum many-body dynamics
• Seminar: Bayesian inference for quantum sensors and open quantum systems
• Positron binding as a molecular thermometer
• R-matrix approaches for electron and photon-driven processes in atomic physics
• Multi-component quantum gases: from synthetic dimensions to ultracold engines
• A spin heat engine coupled to a harmonic-oscillator flywheel

Seminars From 2019

• Enhancing quantum simulators with neural networks
• Combining experiments and modeling in defect studies with positron annihilation
• Squeezing (and) phase diffusion: recent theoretical and experimental results
• Detection of anisotropic particles in levitated optomechanics
• Characterizing quantum advantage in continuous-variable architectures
• Atomic Diffusion in Post-Common Envelope Binary Stars
• Compendium on the quantum probing of Ohmic environments
• Sub-universal models of quantum computation in continuous variables
• Quantum logic with trapped ions: precise, fast, networked
• Systematic non-perturbative approach to quantum non-Markovian dynamics
• Performance of quantum heat engine cycles at strong reservoir coupling

Seminars From 2018

• R-matrix with time dependence theory for semi-relativistic atomic processes in arbitrary light fields
• Graph theory analysis of open quantum systems: classical simulation of quantum-coherent thermal machines
• Light scattering, speckle correlations, and blind ghost imaging
• Exchange and correlations in Ps-atom and Ps-molecule scattering
• Thermodynamics of weakly measured systems.
• Quantum Communications Technologies
• Equivalence relations and open quantum system simulation
• Reconfigurable optical implementation of quantum complex networks
• Atomic processes and plasma diagnostics: from solar atmosphere to tokamak divertor

Seminars From 2017

• Memory effects in quantum dynamics
• The electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW170817
• From strong passivity to extended second law of thermodynamics and new thermodynamic predictions on quantum microscopic systems
• Progress with Antihydrogen and Positronium
• Wavefunction collapse, gravity, and experiments
• Spin-dependent interactions: A fundamental basis for magnetism and spin-electronics.
• Tunneling-based quantum devices with ultracold strongly interacting atoms
• Understanding the explosions of massive stars
• Quantum photonics beyond Bell’s theorem
• The use of R-matrix atomic data in spectral modeling and diagnostics of astrophysical plasmas
• Developments in Atomic Structure calculations – a 50-year perspective
• Designing New Materials for Spintronics

Seminars From 2016

• Ultrafast Charge Migration in Biological Building Blocks
• Understanding the explosions of massive stars
• Quantum control and synchronisation with cavity optomechanics
• Quantum Information Theory with Black Boxes
• Time dependent quantum transport treated with the generalized master equation
• Finite Size Scaling in Quantum Fuels and Heat Engines
• Quantum Complexity in Ultracold Quantum System
• Double Ionisation with the R-Matrix with Time-Dependence Method
• Photonic Quantum Computing: from secure quantum clouds to resource-efficient architectures and fundamental investigations
• Quantum fluids of polaritons and devices
• Analyzing multiparticle entanglement
• Quantum fluids of light
• Bayesian calibration, validation and uncertainty quantification for predictive modelling of complex systems: a pedagogical tumour growth example.
• Molecular Collisional Excitation in Astrophysical Environments
• Atom-Chip for Quantum Control

Seminars From 2015

• Levitated optomechanics
• A comprehensive study of ionised outflows in X-rays in active galactic nuclei
• Using quantized light in ultracold atom problems
• Laser-driven generation of femtosecond, high-density ultra-relativistic positron beams
• The Many Faces of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation
• The Observer and the World: Does Science explain the Universe?
• Nano-friction in cavity quantum electrodynamics
• Superpositions of Tonks-Girardeau gases in a double well
• Operational approach to open dynamics in presence of initial correlations
• Antimatter Chemistry
• Testing the Big Bang – Atomic Physics and the Primordial Helium Abundance
• An order parameter for impurity systems at quantum criticality

Seminars From 2014

• Optimal Persistent Currents for Interacting Bosons on a Ring with a Gauge Field
• Quantum thermodynamics
• Work and Efficiency of Quantum Otto Cycles in Power Law Trapping Potentials
• Quantum Chemistry and its role in dynamical studies and ultra-cold collisions.
• Interacting cold atoms on quasiperiodic lattices
• Synchronization of quantum systems
• Control of open quantum systems
• Breathing of a quantum impurity in a bath of 1D interacting bosons
• Quantum many-body correlations in small mixtures of ultracold bosons
• Low Energy Scattering of Positrons by Molecules

Seminars From 2013

• Non-perturbative cavity quantum electrodynamics: ultrastrong coupling and beyond
• Harmonic generation- get your own wavefunction!
• Homodyne receiver for nearly optimal phase estimation and communication in the presence of phase diffusion
• Quantum fluctuation relations. Overcoming the two-measurements issue
• Thermal equilibrium in quantum theory
• Positrons in Homogeneous Electron Gases
• Cold Rydberg atoms for quantum computation
• Ultracold atoms in optical lattices: detecting strongly correlated phases at finite temperature
• Low energy positron beams and their applications in scattering experiments and antihydrogen production
• Cold ions in optical cavities
• The Enigma of Optical Momentum

Seminars From 2012

• Centre of mass motion interferometry of molecules and nanoparticles
• Proton-helium transfer processes at high projectile energies: new trends and results
• Interacting bosons in 1D lattices: statics and dynamics of topological insulating phases
• Control of High Harmonic generation by synthesised laser field
• Photoionization of trans-Fe elements relevant to astrophysical applications
• Quantum coherence in semiconductors
• Damage Evolution in Biosystems Mediated by Transient Negative Ions: A Quantum Dynamical picture at the molecular level
• Collision of two spin-polarised Fermi clouds
• Multiscale approach to radiation damage by ions
• Correlated electron-ion dynamics for resonant systems
• Measurement of noncommuting spin components using spin-orbit interaction

Seminars From 2011

• Quantum optics with interacting Rydberg atoms
• Optical technologies for quantum information processing
• Beyond pure state entanglement for atomic ensembles
• Semiclassical complex-time method for tunneling ionization
• Quantum Chaos and Dynamical Depletion in an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate
• Post-collision interaction in photoionization of atomic inner shells followed by one- or two-electron emission
• Atomic photoionization: When does it actually begin?
• Probing molecular ion beams with intense few-cycle laser pulses1 – two-color controlled dissociation
• Entanglement-assisted discrimination of Gaussian channels
• Can we do better than Fourier in analysing signal from a novel electrostatic ion trap mass spectrometer?

Seminars From 2010

• Theory of inter-atomic electronic decay processes in clusters
• Using light to cool molecules
• Ground state factorization versus frustration in spin systems
• Calculation of structure and photoabsorption in metal clusters and fullerenes
• Zeff and vibrational resonances in scattering of a heavy positron by H2
• Quantifying non-Gaussianity for quantum information
• Dynamics of entanglement in the presence of spin environments

Seminars From 2009

• Cooling and Non-Destructive State Detection of Molecular Ions: An Important Tool for Physics and Chemistry
• Critical behavior of one dimensional ion crystals
• Less reality, more security
• Designer atoms: Engineering Rydberg atoms using pulsed electric fields
• Cavity-assisted energy relaxation for quantum many-body simulation
• Detection and engineering of spatial mode entanglement with ultra-cold bosons
• Radiation damage of biomolecular systems: a first-principles molecular dynamics approach
• Scattering and impedance of waves in chaotic systems with absorption

Seminars From 2008

• Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of electron-impactionization of atoms and ions
• Statistical inference for posterior distributions with intractable normalising constants
• Experimental CV entanglement distillation from non-Gaussian noise
• My Adventures in the Quantum Wonderland
• Quantum diffusion of hydrogen and muonium atoms in liquid water and hexagonal ice
• Modeling the Non Sequential Double Ionization of Helium beyond one dimension
• Superfluidity vs Anderson Localization in a dilute Bose gas
• Dynamics of atoms in far-off-resonance and near-resonance laser fields
• An ion trap-based optical entanglement generator
• Atoms in intense fields
• Cleaning continuous variable quantum states
• A relativistic generalization of the Kramers-Hennberger transformation
• Quasars – the birth of massive galaxies
• Macroscopic entanglement in many particle systems
• Time-dependent study of multielectron atoms in intense few-cycle laser fields
• Progress in understanding positron annihilation on molecules

Seminars From 2007

• Condensed matter physics at nanograms/cubic centimeter
• Classifying Generalised Wigner distributions in odd dimensions
• Optical quantum computing with photonic and matter qubits
• Seminars 1999-Aug 2007
• Electron-Impact Ionization of Atoms and Problems of Formal Scattering Theory
• High harmonic generation from gases and plasma: between symmetry and universality
• Time-Delay Matrix Analysis of Resonance Processes
• Guiding of few keV ions in insulator nanocapillaries
• Mathematical modelling of cell adhesion in developmental biology and cancer
• Quantum Brownian Motion
• Experimental one-way quantum computing with linear optics
• Recent theoretical studies of electron-molecule collisions
• Calculations for electron-ion collisions and photoionization processes for plasma modeling
• A mathematical model of insect development: Spatial and temporal consequences
• Resonant Photoelectron Spectroscopy in the Gas Phase
• Few-body quantum and many-body classical hyperspherical dynamics for elementary reactions and phase transitions of neutral and ionic nanoaggregates
• AC-driven cold atoms
• The Theory of Quantum Electromechanics

Seminars 1999-Aug 2007 (click here)

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