This is an informal seminar where students, postdocs and faculty discuss research progress as well as plans for future research.
Location: Bevill Building, Room 2006.
Time: Thursday, 5:00 p.m.
Contact: Georg Schwiete
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2 | First meeting | |
| Feb 16 | Mahmud Shamim |
Non-Fermi liquid behavior near a quantum critical point |
| Mar 2 | Modi Ke | Floquet-Driven Indirect RKKY Exchange Interaction mediated by Topological Insulator Surface States |
| April 6 | Zahidul Jitu |
The Role of Disorder in Transport Proper3es of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas |
| April 20 | Nathaniel Lowe | Fourier transform spectroscopy |
| May 8 | Shakeel Ahmad | TBA |
Previous Semesters:
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 25 | First meeting | |
| Sep 8 | Mahmud Shamim |
Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid |
| Sep 22 | Shakeel Ahmad | Coulomb Drag in 2D Systems |
| Oct 6 | Upama Karki | postponed |
| Oct 20 | Gaurav Gupta
Upama Karki |
Majorana Fermions in condensed matter systems
Bilinear and biquadratic exchange coupling strengths in sputtered Co65Fe35(10 nm)/Ru(tru)/Co65Fe35(5 nm) structures |
| Nov 3 | Modi Ke | Floquet-Driven Indirect Exchange Interaction mediated by Topological Insulator Surface States |
| Nov 17 | Zahidul Jitu | Interaction corrections to thermopower in the two-dimensional electron gas |
| Dec 1 | Nathaniel Lowe | The Optical Properties of Graphene |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 | First meeting | |
| Feb 24 | Mahmud Shamim |
Non-Fermi liquid behavior near a quantum critical point |
| March 10 | Zahidul Jitu | postponed |
| March 24 | Zahidul Jitu
Gaurav Gupta |
Renormalization group analysis of the two-dimensional disordered electron gas
Magneto-optical Linear and Third Harmonic Generation in Topological Insulator Films |
| April 7 | Modi Ke | Light-Driven Exchange Interaction in Irradiated Graphene and topological insulator |
| April 21 | Jahnvi Verma
Shakeel Ahmad |
Conformal field theory in condensed matter physics and beyond
Photo-induced Chern Insulating States in Semi-Dirac Systems |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | First meeting | |
| Sept 23 | Upama Karki |
Investigation of competing anisotropies and magnetization reversal behaviour in exchanged biased IrMn/NiFe nano-stripes |
| Oct 07 | Bhuwan Nepal | Domain wall skyrmion based artificial neuron device |
| Oct 21 | Modi Ke |
Exchange Interaction between Magnetic Impurities in Irradiated Graphene: Strong Scattering Regime |
| Nov 04 | Gaurav Gupta | Magneto-optical response of topological insulator thin-films |
| Nov 18 | Zahidul Jitu | Interaction corrections to thermopower in the two-dimensional electron gas |
Spring 2021
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 21 | First meeting | |
| Feb 18 | Pieter Visscher |
Comparing theory to experiment without loss of information: the case of First Order Reversal Curves (FORC) |
| March 04 | Zahidul Jitu | Thermopower of the two-dimensional disordered electron gas |
| March 18 | Modi Ke
Anish Rai |
Magnetic Interaction Between Impurity Spin Chains in Irradiated Graphene
Higher-order perpendicular magnetic anisotropy |
| April 1 | Bhuwan Nepal
Arjun Sapkota |
Skyrmion based artificial neuron device
Anisotropic damping using micromagnetics |
| April 29 | Ashok Pokhrel
Gaurav Gupta |
Basics of Density functional theory (DFT)
Hybridization and Electron-Hole Symmetry Breaking Effects on Magneto-Optical Conductivity of Sb2Te3 Thin-Films |
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | First meeting | |
| Sept 24 | Kayla Cole-Piepke |
Observed effects of magnetism on the calculated stacking fault energies offcc Co and Co-based alloys |
| Oct 08 | Gaurav Gupta
Ehsan Zolghadr |
Hall Conductivity of Thin Films of Topological Insulators
PVDF microfiltration (MF) membrane modification to improve antibacterial performance for water treatment application
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| Oct 22 | Modi Ke
Arjun Sapkota |
Floquet topological insulators
TBA |
| Nov 5 | Bhuwan Nepal
Upama Karki |
Skyrmion based artificial neuron device
Investigation of competing anisotropies in exchange biased nanostructures |
| Nov 19 | Ashok Pokhrel
Zahidul Islam Jitu |
Micromagnetic simulations of the quasi-static properties of dissimilar bilayers
Thermopower of the two-dimensional disordered electron gas
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| Dec 3 | Kaio Marques | Review of Machine Learning Techniques to Identification and Characterization of Skyrmions |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | Best research practices for PhD students | |
| Jan 30 | Georg Schwiete |
Introduction to Boltzmann transport theory I |
| Feb 14 | Georg Schwiete | Introduction to Boltzmann transport theory II |
| Feb 27 | Claudia Mewes | Magnetic Materials and Micromagnetics |
| March 12 | Gaurav Gupta
Zahidul Jitu |
Integer Hall effect
Thermoelectric Transport in Electronic Systems at Low Temperatures |
| April 9 | Bhuwan Nepal
Arjun Sapkota Mahmoud Asmar |
TBA
Magnetic skyrmion-based artificial neuron device Floquet control of periodically driven magnetic lateral heterostructure |
| Dec 5 | Ashok Pokhrel
Modi Ke |
Bilayer Vertical inhomogeneity in Micromagnetics
Exchange Interaction Between Magnetic Adatoms in Irradiated Graphene |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 12 | Wang-Kong Tse | Introduction to Interlayer Interaction in Layered 2D Materials |
| Sept 26 | Arjun Sapkota |
Anisotropic damping in multilayer spintronics devices |
| Oct 10 | Gaurav Gupta
Zahidul Jitu |
postponed |
| Oct 24 | Ashok Pokhrel | Determination of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ultrathin Films and Multilayer Structures Using First Principles |
| Nov 7 | Modi Ke
Gaurav Gupta Zahidul Jitu |
Introduction to RKKY interaction
Light propagation through a 1D photonic lattice Entropy, specific heat, susceptibility, and Rushbrooke inequality in percolation |
| Nov 21 | Woo-Ram Lee
Kayla Cole-Piepke |
Thermo-magneto-electric transport in correlated electron systems at intermediate temperatures
Observed effects of magnetism on calculated stacking fault energy of fcc Co |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 14 | Claudia Mewes | Computational Methods in Magnetism: From First Principles to Magnetization Dynamics |
| Feb 28 | Woo-Ram Lee |
Electric and thermal transport in 2D disordered electron systems at intermediate temperatures |
| March 21 | Arjun Sapkota | Origin of higher order anisotropy and limitations of the macrospin approximation of materials with inhomogeneous perpendicular anisotropy |
| April 4 | Phuong Nguyen | Density Matrix Theory for Photo-Induced Valley Hall Conductivity in Two-Dimensional Dirac Semiconductors |
| April 18 | Mahmoud Asmar | Interlayer RKKY Coupling in Bulk Rashba Semiconductors under Topological Phase Transition |
| May 2 | Modi Ke | RKKY interaction of 2D material with light |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 | Arjun Sapkota | Limitations of the macrospin approximation of materials with inhomogeneous perpendicular anisotropy |
| Sep 24 | Georg Schwiete | Transport of charge, heat and spin in electronic systems – recent progress and future plans |
| Oct 8 | Ashok Pokhrel | Determination of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ultrathin Films and Multilayer Structures using First Principles |
| Oct 22 | Wang-Kong Tse | Quantum Dynamics in Van Der Waals Materials |
| Nov 5 | Kayla Cole | First principles calculations of stacking fault energies of Co-based alloys |
| Nov 19 | Mahmoud Asmar | Interface symmetries and spin control in topological insulator-semiconductor heterostructures |