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Journal Club Meetings

All meetings of the Theoretical Physics group are held at 12:30am at Room AD201 in the AD Building.

Journal Club Meetings (2024–2025)

Date	Speaker	Topic
October 25	Jia Wang	Longwen Zhou Quantum geometry and geometric entanglement entropy of one-dimensional Floquet topological matter Physical Review B 110, 054310 (2024)
November 8	Manushan Thenabadu	Hayato Goto et al. Combinatorial optimization by simulating adiabatic bifurcations in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems Science Advances 5, eaav2372 (2019)

Group Meetings

All meetings of the Theoretical Physics group are held at 11:30am in SOLL Library in the AS Building.

Past Group Meetings (2013–2014)

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 17	Bryan Dalton	Entanglement and Spin Squeezing
February 7	Zhihao Lan	Our recent work on Fermi mixtures
February 14	Yicai Zhang	Feshbach resonance induced by molecular bound-bound transition with spatial modulation coupling
February 28	Bogdan Opanchuk	Fate of the False Vacuum: Quantum Simulations
March 7	Rodney Polkinghorne	Expansion over Finite Sets of Coherent States
March 14	Margaret Reid	EPR for quantum cryptography, BEC entanglement and Schrodinger's cat
March 28	Laura Rosales-Zárate	Multipartite Bell violations using phase-space methods
April 4	Xia-Ji Liu	Unconventional superfluidity in spin-orbit-coupled ultracold atomic Fermi gases
May 2	Peter Drummond	Quantum simulations: from the early universe to Schrodinger's cat
May 9	Margaret Reid	Device-independent witnessing of a Schrodinger cat
May 16	Run Yan Teh	Detecting genuine multipartite entanglement
May 23	Margaret Reid	Einstein versus Quantum Mechanics
June 6	Hui Hu	First and second sound in highly elongated or pancake-shaped harmonic traps, part 1
June 20	Bryan Dalton	Grassmann Phase Space Theory for Fermions
July 11	Hui Hu	First and second sound in highly elongated or pancake-shaped harmonic traps, part 2

Past Group Meetings (2012–2013)

Date	Speaker	Topic
February 25	Qiongyi He	Own work
March 1	Noyuki	Own work
March 8	Peter Drummond	M. Gring et al. Relaxation and prethermalisation in an isolated quantum system Science 337, 1318 (2012)
March 15	Bryan Dalton	Own work
March 28	Margaret Reid	Own work
April 12	Bogdan Opanchuk	Own work
April 26	Xia-Ji Liu	Own work

Past Group Meetings (2011–2012)

Date	Speaker	Topic
August 24	Peter Drummond	A. Altland and M. R. Zirnbauer Nonstandard symmetry classes in mesoscopic normal-superconducting hybrid structures PRB 55, 1142 (1997)
September 7	Qiongyi He	S. Armstrong et al. Programmable multimode quantum networks Nature Communications 3, 1026 (2012)
September 14	Margaret Reid	Own work
September 21	Laura Rosales-Zárate	T. Enss and R. Haussmann Quantum limited spin diffusion in the unitary Fermi gas arXiv preprint 1207.3103v1 (2012)
September 28	Qiongyi He	Own work
October 12	Laura Rosales-Zárate	Own work
October 19	Bogdan Opanchuk	J. Conway and S. Kochen The free will theorem Foundations Phys. 36, 1441 (2006)
October 26	Kumar	Own work
November 2	Margaret Reid	S. G. Hofer et al. Quantum entanglement and teleportation in pulsed cavity optomechanics PRA 84, 052327 (2011)
November 9	Xia-Ji Liu	Own work
November 23	Hui Hu	Own work
November 30	Rodney Polkinghorne	E. Heller Time dependent variational approach to semiclassical dynamics J. Chem. Phys. 64, 63 (1976)
February 23	Xia-Ji Liu	S. Tewari et al. Quantum computation using vortices and Majorana zero modes of a px+ipy superfluid of fermionic cold atoms PRL 98, 010506 (2007)
February 24	Margaret Reid	Own work
February 29	Laura Rosales-Zárate	M. Rontani Tunneling theory of two interacting atoms in a trap arXiv preprint 1111.3611 (2011)
March 1	All	Picnic at Olinda
March 7	Bryan Dalton	L. I. Plimak et al. Langevin equations for interacting fermions and Cooper-like pairing in trapped one-dimensional fermions PRA 64, 063409 (2001)
March 9	Rodney Polkinghorne	Own work
March 14	Bogdan Opanchuk	K. Burrage & P. M. Burrage High strong order explicit Runge-Kutta methods for stochastic ordinary differential equations Applied Numerical Mathematics 22, 81 (1996)
March 21	Rodney Polkinghorne	T. Yanagisawa Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in two-dimensional Hubbard model evidenced from quantum Monte Carlo calculations of susceptibilities Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 79, 063708 (2010)
March 23	Bryan Dalton	Own work
March 28	Peter Drummond	E. Bettelheim & P. B. Wiegmann Universal Fermi distribution of semiclassical nonequilibrium Fermi states PRB 84 085102 (2011)
April 4	Hui Hu	Dark deeds with big lasers at NIST
April 6	Xia-Ji Liu	Own work
April 11	Margaret Reid	TBA
April 18	Alexey Orel	A. Jellal et al. Entanglement in Coupled Harmonic Oscillators via Unitary Transformation arXiv preprint 1106.3894
April 20	Peter Drummond	Own work
April 25	All	New programme

Past group meetings (2010–2011)

Date	Speaker	Topic
Oct 7	Hui Hu	Topological phase transitions and topological superfluids
Sep 23	Qiongyi He	Squeezing, enganglement and phase in a double-well BEC
Jul 29	Xia-Ji Liu	Spin orbit coupling in a BEC
May 20	Bogdan Opanchuk	Fast harmonic decomposition
May 20	Tim Vaughan	Finite time-step generation of point process trajectories
May 13	Margaret Reid	Quantifying Einstein's "action at a distance"
May 6	Ai-Xi Chen	Quantum coherence and optical solitons in semi-conducting quantum wells
April 15	Laura Rosales Zarate	Grassmann algebra and Gaussian operator represenations of Fermionic states
March 25	Peter Drummond	Summary of recent results of Theory Group
March 18	Rodney Polkinghorne	Variational approach to Quantum Dynamics
February 18	Hui Hu	Scattering in 2D dipolar Fermi gases
November 26	Tim Vaughan	Prior-inclusive Retrodiction Methods
November 19	Bogdan Opanchuk	BEC simulations using the Wigner Representation
November 5	Ai-Xi Chen	Novel uses for Rydberg Atoms
October 20	Margaret Reid	Bell Inequalities for Multipartite Systems
October 8	Qiongyi He	Entanglement Criteria for Higher Spin Systems
October 1	Peter Drummond	Variational Algorithms for Quantum Dynamics
September 24	Hui Hu	The Finite Temperature Contact of an Interacting Fermi System
September 17	Xia-Ji Liu	Phase Transitions in Ultracold Fermionic Systems
September 10	Tim Vaughan	Hidden Markov Models and the Forward-Backward Algorithm
September 3	Shi-Guo Peng	Spectroscopy of Trapped Interacting Fermions
July 16	Bogdan Opanchuk	The Wigner Representation and Phase Space Methods
July 9	Bryan Dalton	Double-Well BEC Interferometry
June 25	Peter Drummond	Exact Variational Methods for Quantum Dynamics
June 11	Qiongyi He	Entanglement Criteria
June 4	Margaret Reid	Spin Squeezing and Entanglement
May 28	Shi-Guo Peng	Confinement Induced Resonance and Gaussian Monte Carlo
May 21	Hui Hu	Two-component Fermi Gases in Quasi-2D
May 7	Xia-Ji Liu	Ground States of Interacting Fermi Systems
April 30	Peng Zou	Dynamic Structure Factor of Fermi Gas within Mean Field Theory
April 23	Saeed Bohloul	Closed Timelike Curves in General Relativity
April 16	Tim Vaughan	Quantum Monte Carlo and Retrodiction
April 9	Bogdan Opanchuk	Quantum Dynamics and CUDA
March 26	Hui Dong	Ferromagnetism in repulsive ultra-cold fermi gases
March 19	Qiongyi He	EPR Entanglement using Double-Well BEC
March 12	Peter Drummond	Variational approach to Quantum Dynamics

Past Journal Club Meetings (2011–2012)

Date	Speaker	Paper
October 19	Chris Vale	Mark J.H. Ku et al., arXiv:1110.3309 (Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
October 5	Marcus Lingham	Yefsah et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 130401 (2011) (Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
April 13	Margaret Reid	A.J. Leggett and A. Garg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 857 (1985)
March 30	Peter Drummond	A. Bednorz and W. Belzig, Phys. Rev. B 83 125304 (2011)
February 16	Xia-Ji Liu	B. Fröhlich et al., arXiv:1012.0049v2
February 9	Tim Vaughan	S.M. Barnett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2455 (2001)
November 23	Alexandre Akoulchine	A. G. Radnaev et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 894 (2010) (Joint meeting with experimentalists in EN127.)
November 11	Qiongyi He	A.P. Hines, R.H. McKenzie, and G.J. Milburn, Phys. Rev. A 67, 013609 (2003)
November 3	Hui Hu	D.T. Son and E.G. Thompson, Phys. Rev. A 81, 063634 (2010)
October 13	Bogdan Opanchuk	Robert R. Tucci, arXiv:1001.5200v2
September 28	Margaret Reid	Scott B. Papp, et al. Science 324, 764 (2009)
September 7	Rodney Polkinghorne	E. T. Jaynes, SIAM-AMS Proceedings 14, 151 (1984)
September 1	Shi-Guo Peng	Suzuki et al., Phys. Rev. A 80, 033601 (2009)
August 18	Tim Vaughan	Taylor and Higgs, J. Theor. Biol. 203, 419 (2000)
July 28	Tim Vaughan	Rouzine et al., J. Theor. Pop. Biol. 73, 24 (2008)
July 21	Chris Vale	Gaebler et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 569 (2010) (Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
July 7	Xia-Ji Liu	Lompe et al., arXiv:1006.2241v1
June 16	Peter Drummond	K. Sakmann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett 103, 220601 (2009)
June 9	Qiongyi He	M. S. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. A 65, 032323 (2002)
May 26	Hui Hu	H. P. Buchler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090402 (2010)
May 19	Shi-Guo Peng	L. Hackermuller et al., Science 327, 1621 (2010).
May 12	Peter Drummond	M. Hillery and M. S. Zubairy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050503 (2006).
May 5	Peter Drummond	Julien Borghetti et al., Nature 464, 873 (2010).
April 28	Tim Vaughan	D. Hochberg et al., Phys. Rev. E 73, 066109 (2006)
April 21	Bogdan Opanchuk	Xiaofei Huang, arXiv:1004.2210v1
April 14	Bryan Dalton	J. A. Dunningham and K. Burnett, Phys. Rev. A 70, 033601 (2004).
April 7	Hui Dong	C. Jarzynski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2690 (1997)
March 31	Tim Vaughan	R. T. Cox, Am. J. Phys. 14, 1 (1946)
March 24	Peter Drummond	O'Connell et al., Nature (doi:10.1038/nature0867)
March 17	Saeed Bohloul	Marshall et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 130401 (2003)
March 10	Xia-Ji Liu	Schirotzek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230402 (2009)