Condensed Matter II

Presentations

• Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light harvesting

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 11:00 AM – Nov. 14, 2009, 11:12 AM

  Authors

  • Mohan Sarovar

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Akihito Ishizaki

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Graham Fleming

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Birgitta Whaley

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Analyzing Particle Size Effects in ZnS:Cu using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 11:12 AM – Nov. 14, 2009, 11:24 AM

  Authors

  • Scott Medling

    • UC Santa Cruz

  • M. Kozina

    • UC Santa Cruz

  • Y. Jiang

    • UC Santa Cruz

  • B. Balaban

    • UC Santa Cruz

  • F. Bridges

    • UC Santa Cruz

  • S. Carter

    • UC Santa Cruz

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• Metallic-like photoluminescence and absorption in fused silica surface flaws

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 11:24 AM – Nov. 14, 2009, 11:36 AM

  Authors

  • Ted Laurence

    • LLNL

  • Jeff Bude

    • LLNL

  • Nan Shen

    • LLNL

  • Theodore Feldman

    • LLNL

  • Philip Miller

    • LLNL

  • William Steele

    • LLNL

  • Tayyab Suratwala

    • LLNL

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• Cooling and Heating Processes in the Magnetocaloric Materials: Is Reversibility possible?

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 11:36 AM – Nov. 14, 2009, 11:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ana L. Lima Sharma

    • San Jose State University

  • Angelo M. Gomes

    • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

  • Angelo M. Gomes

    • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

  • Adelino A. Coelho

    • Universidade Estadual de Campinas

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• Comparative Study of PbS and CdSe quantum dots for use in Luminescent Solar Concentrators

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 11:48 AM – Nov. 14, 2009, 12:00 PM

  Authors

  • Georgiy Shcherbatyuk

    • University of California, Merced, School of Natural Scienses

  • R.H. Inman

    • University of California, Merced, School of Natural Scienses
    • University of California Merced

  • Chunhua Wang

    • University of California, Merced, School of Engineering

  • S. Ghosh

    • University of California, Merced, School of Natural Scienses
    • University of California Merced

  • Roland Winston

    • University of California, Merced, School of Engineering

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• The 1-d Long Range Diluted Heisenberg Spin Glass - A Monte Carlo Study

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 12:00 PM – Nov. 14, 2009, 12:12 PM

  Authors

  • Auditya Sharma

    • Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

  • Peter Young

    • Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

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• Optimization of a rubidium magnetometer based on nonlinear optical rotation

  POSTER

  Nov. 14, 2009, 12:12 PM – Nov. 14, 2009, 12:24 PM

  Authors

  • Lok Fai Chan

    • California State University - East Bay

  • L.R. Jacome

    • California State University - East Bay

  • Srikanth Guttikonda

    • California State University - East Bay

  • Eric Bahr

    • California State University - East Bay

  • Derek Kimball

    • California State University - East Bay

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• Quantitative characterization of one-dimensional magnetic chains in organic semiconductors

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 12:24 PM – Nov. 14, 2009, 12:36 PM

  Authors

  • Evan Silverstein

    • CSU Long Beach

  • Brian J. Cacha

    • CSU Long Beach

  • Joshua Mims

    • CSU Long Beach

  • Thomas Gredig

    • CSU Long Beach

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• An electro-optic experimental study of an unusual liquid crystal phase transition

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 12:36 PM – Nov. 14, 2009, 12:48 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel Staines

    • Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo

  • Derek Wicks

    • Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo

  • Austin Havens

    • Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo

  • Jonathan Fernsler

    • Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo

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• Electronic structure and quantum critical behavior of NbFe$_{2}$

  POSTER

  Nov. 14, 2009, 12:48 PM – Nov. 14, 2009, 1:00 PM

  Authors

  • Brian Neal

    • University of California, Davis

  • Warren Pickett

    • University of California, Davis

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• Biologically inspired MEMS based directional microphone

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 1:00 PM – Nov. 14, 2009, 1:12 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Touse

    • Naval Postgraduate School

  • Stephen Harrison

    • Naval Postgraduate School

  • Jeffrey Catterlin

    • Naval Postgraduate School

  • Gamani Karunasiri

    • Naval Postgraduate School

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• Environment-invariant measure of distance between evolutions of an open quantum system

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2009, 1:12 PM – Nov. 14, 2009, 1:24 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Grace

    • Department of Scalable Computing Research \& Development, Sandia National Laboratories

  • Jason Dominy

    • Program in Applied \& Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

  • Robert Kosut

    • SC Solutions, Inc.

  • Constantin Brif

    • Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

  • Herschel Rabitz

    • Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

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