Fall+2011

= Rutgers Condensed Matter Journal Club. = Welcome to the Journal Club wikipage!


 * Time: Wedensdays 6:30-7:30pm**
 * Venue: Serin 112**

Unfinished Frontier || Continuation of last week's discussion. || //Piers' [|review] of history & frontiers in many body// || "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" || The [|article] in question. || 0904.1975, and the emergent symmetry paper by Lee 1009.5127 ||
 * **Date** || **Speaker(s)** || **Topic** || **Description** || **References** ||
 * Sep 13 ||  || Organizational meeting ||   ||   ||
 * Sep 20 || Tahir || More is Different || General Discussions of Condensed Matter Philosophy and Emergent Phenomena || //Anderson's influential article __[|More is Different]__// ||
 * Sep 27 || Chuck || Many Body Physics:
 * Oct 4 || Maryam || Math in Physics || Discussion of a classic article by Eugene Wigner on
 * Oct 11 || Tahir || Ferroelectrics || Introduction to basics, soft-mode theory, lattice instabilities, etc... || Craig Fennie's Thesis. I will particularly focus on Chapter 3, section 2, as that is a good pedagogical introduction. [[file:FennieThesis.pdf]] ||
 * Oct 18 || Aline || ESR in YbAlB4 || Discussion about the phenomenological theory we develop to understand the unusual ESR signal in YbAlB4. || Experiment at Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 026402 (2011) ||
 * Oct 25 || Vitya || Emergent Symmetries and ADS/CFT || A parallel discussion of emergent symmetries in CMT toy models along with ADS/CFT duality || The papers are huge, but lets say a little introduction in holography is
 * Nov 2 || Chuck || DMFT || Blackboard discussion of Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT). || Introduction from Physics Today: [|article] ||
 * Nov 9 || Maryam || Domain Walls in BaTiO3 || A discussion of various domain wall structures in rhombohedral BaTiO3 from a Landau Ginzburg perspective. || http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1376 ||
 * Nov 16 || Juho || Spin-Orbit Coupling and Rashba Effect || A discussion of the Spin-Orbit Coupling in Condensed Matter Physics, and the Rashba Effect. || Good pedagogical introduction: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~uzuelick/Cluster09.pdf ||
 * Nov 23 || Thanksgiving Break || No talk this week. || We shall be eating food and making merry. || I suggest you read a good funny book to relax. ||
 * Nov 30 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Dec 7 || Sebastian Reyes || Group Theory in Condensed Matter || Groups, representation theory, applications in CM Physics. ||  ||
 * Dec 14 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Dec 21 ||  || Winter break ||   ||   ||