Category: Departmental Seminars

Barış PekertenUniversity of Buffalo, SUNY “Topological quantum computing and planar Josephson junctions: Anisotropy, finite-size effects, superconducting diodes, and microwave manipulation and detection” AbstractPlanar Josephson junctions provide a platform to host topological superconductivity which, through manipulating Majorana bound states, could enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. A standard model of these Josephson junctions, which can be fabricated to…

Alkan KabakçıoğluKoç University “Out-of-equilibrium dynamics in biology and machine learning” AbstractDynamical trajectories in high-dimensional systems can exhibit complex and sometimes counterintuitive behaviors driven by noise. We here provide two examples: one from biology, involving the folding and melting dynamics of nucleic acids under thermal drive, and another from machine learning, where the training process can…

Notice the unusual day and time! BİLKENT UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT of PHYSICS SEMINAR “Number theory meets physics: the curious case of the Aubry-André model” Abstract: The Aubry-André model captures the essence of quasiperiodicity.  It consists of a hopping term between lattice sites and an on-site modulation which depends on an irrational parameter.  In numerical calculations this…