Highlights are brief today, because I spent more of my time seeing talks from my group and chatting with people:
- Started the day with the Keithley Prize session, and Dan Rugar talking about the history of magnetic resonance force microscopy. Very interesting and educational. It is inspiring to see the evolution of a technique, from the genesis of the idea (an early paper here) to initial testing to advanced developments.
- Later I saw Marcel Franz give a very clear talk about how to try to build a topological superconductor (fully gapped with topologically protected chiral edge modes) by stacking individual cuprate layers rotated by 45 degrees with respect to each other.
- There was a neat talk by Naomi Ginsberg on her group's pump-probe interferometric technique ("stroboSCAT") that allows them to visualize and separate the diffusion of heat and the diffusion of charge in various materials. For a review, see here.
- Later in the day I bopped back and forth a bit between the Buckley/Isakson/Onsager Prize session and a session about the BCS/BEC crossover in condensed matter systems. It was pretty neat hearing Emmanuel Rashba speak.
Now to figure out what to see tomorrow....
2 comments:
The strobosCAT sounds very interesting. It seems like it would be very useful with the resurgence of interest in hydrodynamics of quantum materials
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