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Please join us for a special edition of our PEAR Boulder monthly seminar series on Tuesday, April 30th at 11 am MT (1 pm ET) in conference room 1-1107 or online at https://nist.zoomgov.com/j/1601226156?pwd=aWpSMklZRWNxWGxLWXFmVVdRMEQrU….

We have two speakers from JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), Jacob S. Higgins and Kyungtae Kim, both from Prof. Jun Ye’s research group. JILA is a joint institute between NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder.

The past decade has seen a huge wave of interest in the possibility of hydrodynamic transport of electrons and/or phonons in quantum materials.  There are now dozens of experiments that are approaching consensus on a weakly viscous hydrodynamic regime in e.g. monolayer graphene.

Abstract: Circuit quantization is an extraordinarily successful theory that describes the behavior of quantum circuits with high precision.

Learn about how to navigate and negotiate your career after your postdoc by attending this panel featuring 3 JILA Fellows. 

Speaker bio: Ben Brubaker is a New York City-based science journalist who covers theoretical computer science as a staff writer for Quanta Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Scientific American, and Physics Today, and elsewhere. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at JILA before moving into science writing.
 

Reception at 5:30 at the Sink. We'll meet at the hbar at 5:15 to head over.

Abstract: Polarons, quasiparticles composed of an electronic excitation and the material deformation these cause in a solid or liquid, are ubiquitous. Understanding and controlling their formation, nonequilibrium relaxation, and motion are essential in developing next-generation photocatalysts, energy conversion devices, and even superconductors. In this talk, I introduce some of our recent theoretical advances that enable us to probe the exact quantum dynamics of Holstein polarons subject to dispersive phonon baths in small lattice models to the thermodynamic limit.

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