Conveners
M2-8 Contributed Talks I (DCMMP) / Conférences soumises I (DPMCM)
- Michel Gingras
Crowded soft-matter and biological systems organize locally into preferred motifs. Locally-organized motifs in soft systems can, paradoxically, arise from a drive to maximize overall system entropy. Entropy-driven local order has been directly confirmed in model, synthetic colloidal systems, however similar patterns of organization occur in crowded biological systems ranging from the contents...
The symmetries of unconventional superconductors may be classified by the locations of their gap nodes. Recently, the role of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has become important, as sufficiently strong SOC generates novel mixed-parity superconductivity. In this talk, I show that the nodal structure of unconventional superconductors may be determined by angle-dependent magneto-thermal conductivity...
A state-preserving quantum counting algorithm is used to obtain coefficients of a Lanczos recursion from a single ground state wavefunction on the quantum computer. This is used to compute the continued fraction representation of an interacting Green's function for use in condensed matter, particle physics, and other areas. The wavefunction does not need to be re-prepared at each iteration....
Since the temperature of an object that cools decreases as it relaxes to thermal equilibrium, naively a hot object should take longer to cool than a warm one. Yet, some 2300 years ago, Aristotle observed that “to cool hot water quickly, begin by putting it in the sun.” In the 1960s, this counterintuitive phenomenon was rediscovered as the statement that “hot water can freeze faster than cold...
Molecular self-assembly is one of the most important bottom-up fabrication strategies to produce two-dimensional networks at solid surfaces. The formation of complex two-dimensional (2-d) surface structures at the molecular scale relies on the self-assembly of functional organic molecules on solid substrates. Driven by an intricate equilibrium between molecule–molecule and molecule–substrate...
Seawater spray and precipitation are two main sources of icing and ice accumulation in cold ocean regions, presenting a major challenge for shipping and operating maritime equipment [1].
There is a limited number of analytical techniques to study seawater spray ice formation. MRI is known for its non-invasive capabilities in measurements of a solid ice [2,3]. In this work, we investigated...
Many-body localization impedes the spread of information encoded in initial conditions, providing a intriguing counter point to continuing efforts to understand the approach of quantum systems to equilibrium and also opening the possibility of diverse non-equilibrium phases.
While much work in this area has focused on systems with a single degree of freedom per site, motivated by rapid...
