CDT-CMP Talks 2017/18

These are the talks that are going on in the centre this year, all CDT-CMP Students are strongly encouraged to attend and all others are welcome

Journal Club
These are Mondays afternoons 2-4pm, these will all be live streamed between Bath and Bristol.

Date Location Speaker Title Paper
9th October 2017 3 West 4.1 (Bath)

Live streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Israel Osmond

Superconductivity in Weyl semimetal candidate MoTe2
Nature Communications 7, 11038 (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11038
Lukas Ohnoutek

Landau quantization and quasiparticle interference in the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2
Nature Materials 13, 851 (2014)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4023
16th October 2017 3 West 4.1 (Bath)

Live streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Simon Payne  Control of the metal–insulator transition in vanadium dioxide by modifying orbital occupancy  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys2733
William Rowe Superconducting Calcium-Intercalated Bilayer Graphene
ACS Nano, 10, 2761 (2016)
 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b07848
23rd October 2017 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Chloe Clear Quantum criticality of Mott transition in organic materials

Nature Physics 11, 221 (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3235
Sean Harding The Higgs mode in disordered superconductors close to a quantum phase transition

Nature Physics 11, 188 (2015)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3227
30th October 2017 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Taylor Moule Universal quantum oscillations in the underdoped cuprate superconductors

Nature Physics 9, 761 (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys2792
Will Campbell Electrically pumped single-defect light emitters in WSe2

2D Materials 3, 025038 (2016)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/3/2/025038
6th November 2017 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Ben Smith Giant Rydberg excitons in the copper oxide Cu2O

Nature 514, 343 (2014)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13832
Matthew Reeves Revealing the role of electrons and phonons in the ultrafast recovery of charge density wave correlations in 1T−TiSe2

Phys. Rev. B 94, 165165 (2016)

http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.165165
13th November 2017 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Alexander Petsch Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets

Nature Materials 15, 501 (2016)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4593
Giuseppe Guarino A high-temperature ferromagnetic topological insulating phase by proximity coupling

Nature 533, 513 (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17635
20th November 2017 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Rob Armstong Atomistic origin of an ordered superstructure induced superconductivity in layered chalcogenides

Nature Communications 6, 6091 (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7091
Joseph Hitchen Viscous flow of medieval cathedral glass

J Am Ceram Soc. 0, 1 (2017)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jace.15092/full
27th November 2017 Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Live Streaming to: 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Aitor Garcia Ruiz (Speaking in Bath) Theory of Laser-Controlled Competing Superconducting and Charge Orders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087002 (2017)

 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.087002
Lauren Cane (Speaking in Bristol) Anisotropy of the Seebeck Coefficient in the Cuprate Superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy: Fermi-Surface Reconstruction by Bidirectional Charge Order

Phys. Rev. X 7, 031042 (2017)

 https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.031042
4th December 2017 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Live Streaming to: 3West 4.1 (Bath)

 

Israel Osmond The most incompressible metal osmium at static pressures above 750 gigapascals

Nature 525, 226 (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14681
Lukas Ohnoutek Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit

Nature 546, 270 (2017)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22391
5th March 2018 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Live Streaming to: 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Simon Payne Quantum interference in an interfacial superconductor

Nature Nanotechnology 11, 861 (2016)

William Rowe Gate-tunable black phosphorus spin valve with nanosecond spin lifetimes

Nature Physics 13, 888 (2017)

12th March 2018 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Live Streaming to: 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Chloe Clear Spin-rotation symmetry breaking in the superconducting state of CuxBi2Se3

Nature Physics 12, 852 (2016)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3781
Sean Harding A novel artificial condensed matter lattice and a new platform for one-dimensional topological phases

Science Advances 3, 1501692 (2017)

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/3/e1501692 
19th March 2018 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Live Streaming to: 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Taylor Moule Operation of graphene quantum Hall resistance standard in a cryogen-free table-top system

2D Materials 2, 035015 (2015)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/2/3/035015
Will Campbell Stacking-Dependent Electronic Structure of Trilayer Graphene Resolved by Nanospot Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Nano Letters 17, 1564 (2017)

 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04698
16th April 2018 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Benjamin Smith Superballistic flow of viscous electron fluid through graphene constrictions

Nature Physics (2017)

 https://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys4240.html
Matthew Reeves  Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision

Nature 538, 222 (2016)

 https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7624/full/nature19363.html
23rd April 2018

 

 

3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Alexander Petsch Spin–valley locking in the normal state of a transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductor

Nature Communications 7, 11711 (2016)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11711
 Giuseppe Guarino Interfacial mode coupling as the origin of the enhancement of T-c in FeSe films on SrTiO3

Nature 515, 245 (2014)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13894
30th April 2018 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

 

Robert Armstrong Highly confined low-loss plasmons in graphene–boron nitride heterostructures

Nature Materials 14, 421 (2015)

 https://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v14/n4/full/nmat4169.html
Joseph Hitchen Memristive phase switching in two-dimensional 1T-TaS2 crystals

Science Advances 1, e1500606 (2015)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500606
1st May 2018 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

 William Campbell  

Stacking-Dependent Electronic Structure of Trilayer Graphene Resolved by Nanospot Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Nano Letters 17, 1564 (2017)

 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04698

Seminar Series
These are Tuesday afternoons 2-4, these are from a variety of people including academics and students based at Bath and Bristol and also external speakers.

These are also followed with coffee and a discussion.

 Date  Location Speaker Title More Info
17th October 2017 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

 Dr. Philip Shields

Nitride LEDs, Nobel prizes & Nano-engineering

2017-10-17 Philip Shields
 7th November 2017 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

 Dr. Anita Zeidler Pressure induced structural changes in glassy materials 07.11.17 – Anita Zeidler Flyer
 5th December 2017 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

Live Streaming to: 3West 4.1 (Bath)

 Dr. Natasa Vasiljevic Electrochemical Design of Pt-Bimetallic Nanostructures  05.12.17 – Natasa Vasiljevic Flyer
20th March 2018 Physics 1.23 Bristol Alfred Jones Time-resolved ARPES measurements at Artemis
8th May 2018 3West 4.1 (Bath)

Live Streaming to: 3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol)

 Joe Wilcox Investigation of energy gap structure of strongly correlated superconductors using linear and non-linear magnetic pentration depth measurements  08.05.18 – Joe Wilcox Flyer
29th May 2018 Physics 1.23 (Bristol)

Live streaming to: 3W 4.1 (Bath)

 Aitor Garcia Ruiz Superconductivity-induced features in the electronic Raman spectrum of monolayer graphene

Other Presentations

These are the presentations that happen on an ad-hoc basis and generally the students assessed talks but include talks on ETP projects, group work etc.  Everyone is welcome to attend the ones listed on here.

This page will be updated as these are organised, so please check back regularly.

Tuesday 27th February – ETP2 Presentations

Time: 14:30-16:00
Location:  3.29 Access Grid Room (Bristol) with live streaming to 3 West 4.1 (Bath)

14:30 Sean Harding – “Electronic structure of bulk and few-layer vanadium diselenide”

15:00 Simon Payne -“Room temperature organic molecular ferroelectricity”

15:30 William Rowe – “A tight binging model for the iron pnictides”

Friday 4th May – Group Presentations

15:00 Group 1 – Video in CMP

15:30 Group 2 – Workshop in CMP

16:00 Group 3 – Sol gel oxides

16:30 Group 4 – Materials by design