Disordered quantum systems: from electrons to cold atoms May, 2014

Program

May 19

Disorder and interactions. Chair Boris Altshuler

  • 9:15-9:30 Registration and welcome
  • 9:30-10:15 Alain Aspect

    Breaking the time reversal symmetry in weak localization of cold atoms

  • 10:15-11:00 Thierry Giamarchi

    Dirty bosons in chains and ladders

  • 11:00-11:30 coffee break
  • 11:30-12:15 Sergej Flach

    Waves: Disorder and interactions

  • 12:15-13:00 Giulio Biroli

    Ergodicity, level statistics, and localization transitions on the Bethe lattice

  • 13:00-14:30 lunch

Physics of graphene. Chair Boris Altshuler

  • 14:30-15:15 Vincent Bouchiat

    Superconducting dots arrays proximity coupled to Graphene: a platform for superconductivity in 2D

  • 15:15-16:00 Gilles Montambaux

    Manipulation of Dirac points in artificial graphenes

  • 16:00-... poster session with coffee

May 20

Cold atoms in disorder. Chair Gora Shlyapnikov

  • 9:30-10:15 Giovanni Modugno

    Fluid and insulating regimes for disordered interacting bosons

  • 10:15-11:00 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

    Disordered Bose superfluids

  • 11:00-11:30 coffee break
  • 11:30-12:15 Antoine Georges

    Ultracold atoms meet mesoscopics and thermoelectrics

  • 12:15-13:00 Dominique Delande

    Mobility edge for cold atoms in laser speckle potentials

  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch

Superconductivity and disorder. Chair Gora Shlyapnikov

  • 14:30-15:15 Benjamin Sacépé

    Localization of preformed Cooper pairs in disordered superconductors

  • 15:15-16:00 Charly Marcus

    Epitaxial superconductivity: Majoranas, Hard gaps, and a Quantum phase transition

  • 16:00-... poster session with coffee

May 21

Mesoscopic physics. Chair Gilles Montambaux

  • 9:30-10:15 Hélène Bouchiat

    Dynamics of Andreev states in long diffusive SNS junctions: supercurrent fluctuations and spectroscopy of the minigap

  • 10:15-11:00 Hugues Pothier

    Elementary excitations in Josephson weak links

  • 11:00-11:30 coffee break
  • 11:30-12:15 Igor Lerner

    One-dimensional transport of bosons between weakly linked reservoirs

  • 12:15-13:00 Vladimir Yudson

    Localization of helical edge electrons by Kondo impurities

  • 13:00-14:30 lunch

Mesoscopic physics. Chair Gilles Montambaux

  • 14:30-15:15 Andrey Varlamov

    Quantum fluctuation mechanism of Abrikosov lattice formation

  • 15:15-16:00 Benoît Douçot

    Multicomponent skyrmion lattices and their excitations