Luigi Amico (Catania) is visiting us at RAL until 4 July 2012 (dates TBC). Luigi has a broad range of interests including quantum statistical mechanics, exactly solvable models nad the application of quantum information theory to understand condensed matter systems. If you wish to have some time to discuss with Luigi please get in touch with me or with Toby Perring (ISIS/UCL).
Registration for CMPCity and Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism 2012 is now open:
Our paper on double occupancy in one-dimensional optical lattices is now published. Here is the full reference:
L. Campo Jr., K. Capelle, C. Hooley, J. Quintanilla and V. Scarola.
“Thermal versus quantum fluctuations of optical lattice fermions.”
Phys. Rev. A 85, 033644 (2012) .
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.85.033644
I just gave a seminar in Bristol entitled “Seeing the entanglement transition with neutrons: a new window on quantum criticality”. This was my first talk on this new and exciting project involving theorists and experimentalists in the UK, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Germany. While I focused on the theory, I also mentioned some preliminary experimental results. That part of the work is still ongoing, so please bear with me until I make the slides available.
On the 17 of February I presented a talk on the work Bruno and I have been doing with Gabriele Sala and Claudio Castelnovo (also involved is Roderich Moessner) on the question monopole dynamics in spin ice. This was part of a meeting held at Warwick on this subject. No slides available online, sorry!