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IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center Past Events -- 2007 Quantum Nanoscience with Spins Retreat

Quantum Nanoscience with Spins
June 3-5, 2007, at Asilomar

For many decades now, the technologies of communication and information processing have been based on ever-smaller devices built from conductors or doped semiconductors, in which electrons are moved around. However a new kind of technology is beginning to emerge, based instead on the dynamics of quantum spins, sometimes with no moving electrons at all. This use of spins offers several huge advantages over existing technologies - far less heat is generated, and more subtle operations can be carried out using spin than electronic charge. It also offers a much more direct use of quantum mechanics and the possibility of quantum devices based on spin.

Some of the ideas currently being explored include 'spintronics' devices based on the transport of spin (without necessarily moving charges at all), and the construction of elementary solid-state logic devices made from very small numbers of spins (at the molecular or even atomic scale). The quantum properties of such devices are important, and moreover their behaviour at these length scales is often very different from that in the bulk - one of the big surprises has been the possibilities opened up by new kinds of magnetic quantum materials at the nanoscopic scale.

The main themes of the meeting will include

  1. Spin transport, and spin momentum transfer
  2. New materials: Novel Oxides, Graphene, etc.
  3. Quantum spin devices; qubits, etc.
  4. The technological perspective
Organizers
SSP Parkin (IBM)
GA Sawatzky (UBC)
PCE Stamp (UBC)
SC Zhang (Stanford)
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Schedule

Quantum NanoScience with Spins Retreat
June 3-6, 2007
 Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove

Agenda
All sessions will take place in the Nautilus Conference Room

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Sunday, June 3rd
   

3:00-6:00pm

Registration in Main Lobby

6:00-7:00pm

Dinner - Crocker Dining Hall

7:00-7:30pm

Mixer with wine and beer - Nautilus Room
Opening Session Future of Computation!

 

 

7:30-7:45pm

Welcome by Organizers
Discussion Leader -- Stuart Parkin

7:45-8:45pm

Energy-conserving classical computation: prospects and challenges
Thomas N. Theis
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA

 

Monday, June 4

 

 

7:00-8:30am

Breakfast - Crocker Dining Hall

 

 
Session M1 Two dimensional electron gas systems (2DEGS)
Discussion Leader - Shoucheng Zhang

 

 

8:30-9:20am

Control and Manipulation of Two Electron Spins in GaAs Quantum Dots
Amir Yacoby
Harvard University

9:20-10:10am

Persistent spin helix in a two-dimensional electron gas
Joe Orenstein
University of California, Berkeley, USA

10:10-10:25am

BREAK

10:25-11:15am

Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots and Interacting 2DEGs
Daniel Loss
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

 

 
Session M2 Physicists in Business!
Discussion Leader - Philip Stamp

 

 

11:15am-12:05pm

Business is Physics
Haig Farris
Fractal Capital Corporation, Canada

 

 

12:05-1:00pm

Lunch - Crocker Dining Hall

 

 
Session M3 Graphene
Discussion Leader - David Goldhaber-Gordon

 

 

1:15-2:05pm

Spin Hall Effect in Graphene
Patrick Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

2:05-2:55pm

Pseudospintronics in Graphene
Allan MacDonald
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

2:55-3:10pm

BREAK

3:10-4:00pm

Electronic Spin Transport And Spin Precession In Single Graphene Layers At Room Temperature
B.J. van Wees
University of Groningen, The Netherlands

 

 
Session M4 Nanomagnetism
Discussion Leader - Sergei Demokritov

 

 

4:00-4:50pm

Nanospintronics using molecular nanomagnets
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble, France

5:00-6:00pm

Poster Session

 

 
Conference Reception and Dinner
Barbecue Area by Boardwalk

6:00-7:00pm

Reception/Mixer

7:00-8:30pm

Conference Dinner

8:30-10:00pm

Bonfire with Snacks and Beverages

Tuesday, June 5

 

 

7:00-8:30am

Breakfast - Crocker Dining Hall

 

 
Session T1 Magnetic Excitations
Discussion Leader - Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

 

 

8:30-9:20am

Spin transfer driven dynamics of magnetic domain walls in magnetic nanowires
Masamitsu Hayashi
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, USA

9:20-10:10am

Quantum thermodynamics and thermalization of magnons in quasi-equilibrium
Sergei Demokritov
Institut für Angewandte Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

10:10-10:25am

BREAK

 

 
Session T2 Oxide Heterostructures
Discussion Leader - George Sawatsky

 

 

10:25am-11:15pm

Mott Quantum Wells
Harold Y. Hwang
University of Tokyo, Japan

11:15am-12:05pm

Spintronics with multiferroics
Manuel Bibes
Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, CNRS, Orsay, France

 

 

12:05-1:00pm

Lunch - Crocker Dining Hall

 

 
Session T3 Spin Hall Effect (SHE)
Discussion Leader - Daniel Loss

 

 

1:15-2:05pm

Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells
Bogdan Andrei Bernevig
Princeton University, USA

2:05-2:55pm

Spin Hall effects in HgTe quantum well structures
H. Buhmann
Physikalisches Institut der Universität Würzburg, EPIII, Universität Würzburg, Germany

2:55-3:10pm

BREAK

3:10-4:00pm

The phase diagram of the quantum spin Hall effect in 2D and 3D
Joel Moore
University of California, Berkeley, USA

3:10-4:00pm

Spin Currents in a 2D Electron Gas
Joshua Folk
University of British Columbia, Canada

 

 

5:00-6:00pm

Poster Session

6:00-7:00pm

Conference Dinner

 

 
Session T4 Applications of Quantum nanoscience
Discussion Leader - Tom Theis

 

 

7:30-8:20pm

Progress and Challenges in Magnetic Data Storage Technology
Mark H. Kryder
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

8:20-9:10pm

 Search for the control of spins in silicon - revisiting impurity Rydberg states
Gabriel Aeppli
London Centre for Nanotechnology and University College London, UK

 

 

Wednesday, June 6

 

 

7:00-8:30am

Breakfast - Crocker Dining Hall

 

 
Session W1 Spin Decoherence
Discussion Leader - Gabriel Aeppli

 

 

8:30-9:20am

Controlling individual nuclear spins in diamond: from coherence to scalability
Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University, USA

9:20-10:10am

Theory of Decoherence and Coherence Control of Quantum Dot Electron Spin in a Bath of Interacting Nuclear Spins
Wang Yao
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

10:10-10:25am

BREAK

10:25am-11:15pm

Architectures and decoherence of electron spin qubits
Andrea Morello
Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

11:15am-12:05pm

Coherent Control with Shaped Femtosecond Pulses
John Hepburn
University of British Columbia, Canada

 

 

12:05-1:00pm

Lunch - Crocker Dining Hall

 

 
1:30-4:00pm Winery Excursion (optional)



  

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