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Recipe for a successful presentation
Recipe for a successful presentation:
  1. Pick an interesting paper, preferably experimental, on a topic of your interest. This Journal Club focuses on depth not breadth; but this must be balanced with not over-stressing "usual suspects" topics by "usual suspects" authors. Picking the right paper is key—ask your colleagues if it will help you decide.
  2. Plan to talk about 30 minutes, not counting questions. However, know that the questions will come and do not discourage them. If you get many questions and if discussions develop at the end of the presentation, take it as a good sign (people are interested).
  3. Prepare 5–15 slides. To get people aligned with the topic, consider an initial slide containing paper title, authors, and the key result in your own words, perhaps along with one figure (device, data, as you wish). A good structure for presenting a paper is given by "Rashba's Rules."
Rashba's Rules:
  1. Context: What is known, what is the problem, what have the authors aimed to do
  2. Key Result: What was the method, and what was achieved
  3. Relevance: Relate the paper to the current work of the group, if any
JC czar: David Reilly

Journal Club

When: Thursdays, 2:30 p.m.
Where:  Lyman 425

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See Journal Club Archive for previous presentations.

2007
June 14 Barton M.J.R. Hoch, J. Lu, P.L. Kuhns, W.G. Moulton, and A. P. Reyes. Current-induced dynamic nuclear polarization in GaAs, Phys. Rev. B 72, 233204 (2005).
June 21 Heeres N. Tombros, C. Jozsa, M. Popinciuc, H.T. Jonkman, and B.J. van Wees. Electronic spin transport and spin precession in single graphene layers at room temperature, arXiv:0706.1948.
June 28 Laird M. Scheibner, T. Schmidt, L. Worschech, A. Forchel, G. Bacher, T. Passow, and D. Hommel. Superradiance of quantum dots, Nature Phys. 3, 106 (2007). See also News and Views by G. Khitrova1 and H.M. Gibbs.
July 5 Krich C. Fasth, A. Fuhrer, L. Samuelson, Vitaly N. Golovach, and Daniel Loss. Direct Measurement of the Spin-Orbit Interaction in a Two-Electron InAs Nanowire Quantum Dot, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 266801 (2007).
July 12 Williams J. Martin, N. Akerman, G. Ulbricht, T. Lohmann, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and A. Yacoby. Observation of Electron-Hole Puddles in Graphene Using a Scanning Single Electron Transistor, arXiv:0705.2180v1.
July 19 [no JC] Special Seminar by Arzhang Ardavan: Fluctuating and inconventional superconductivity in organic metals.
July 26 Aptekar T. Jonischkeit, U. Bommerich, J. Stadler, K. Woelk, H.G. Niessen, J. Bargon. Generating long-lasting 1H and 13C hyperpolarization in small molecules with parahydrogen-induced polarization, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 201109 (2006).
Aug 2 Levenson-Falk K.C. Nowack, F.H.L. Koppens, Yu.V. Nazarov, and L.M.K. Vandersypen. Coherent control of a single spin with electric fields, arXiv:0707.3080.
Aug 16 [no JC] (cancelled)
Aug 16 McClure F.E. Camino, W. Zhou, and V.J. Goldman. Quantum transport in electron Fabry-Perot interferometers, arXiv:0707.1688.
Aug 23 Miller S. Lüscher, L.S. Moore, T. Rejec, Y. Meir, H. Shtrikman, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon. Charge Rearrangement and Screening in a Quantum Point Contact, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196805 (2007).
Aug 30 Churchill N. Shaji, C.B. Simmons, M. Thalakulam, L.J. Klein, H. Qin, H. Luo, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, A.J. Rimberg, R. Joynt, M. Friesen, R.H. Blick, S.N. Coppersmith, M.A. Eriksson. Spin blockade and coherence-enhanced transport in a few-electron Si/SiGe double quantum dot, arXiv:0708.0794.
Sept 6 Pham G. Lampel. Nuclear Dynamic Polarization by Optical Electronic Saturation and Optical Pumping in Semiconductors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 491 (1968).
Sept 13 Zhang S. Groeblacher, T. Paterek, R. Kaltenbaek, C. Brukner, M. Zukowski, M. Aspelmeyer, and A. Zeilinger. An experimental test of non-local realism, Nature 446, 871 (2007).
Sept 20 Laird L. Meier, G. Salis, I. Shorubalko, E. Gini, S. Schoen, and K. Ensslin. Measurement of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit magnetic fields, Nature Phys. 3, 653 (2007).
Sept 27 seminar Ganpathy Murthy Disorder, Interactions, and Crossovers in Quantum Dots, Nature 3, 449 (2007).
Oct 11 Barthel Mika A. Sillanpaa1, Jae I. Park1 and Raymond W. Simmonds Coherent quantum state storage and transfer between two phase qubits via a resonant cavity, Nature 449, 7161 (2007).
Oct 25 Marcus F. H. L. Koppens, D. Klauser, W. A. Coish, K. C. Nowack, L. P. Kouwenhoven, D. Loss, and L. M. K. Vandersypen. Universal Phase Shift and Nonexponential Decay of Driven Single-Spin Oscillations, PRL 99, 106803 (2007).
Nov 1 Reilly R. Budakian, H. J. Mamin, B. W. Chui, D. Rugar Creating Order from Random Fluctuations in Small Spin Ensembles, Science 307, 408 (2005).
Nov 8 Williams Boris Grbic, Renaud Leturcq, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, Dirk Reuter, and Andreas D. Wieck Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in the Presence of Strong Spin-Orbit Interactions Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176803 (2007).
Nov 15 Hadar Steinberg Charge fractionalization in one dimension.
Nov 29 Rosenow M. D. Godfrey, P. Jiang, W. Kang, S. H. Simon, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West Aharonov-Bohm-Like Oscillations in Quantum Hall Corrals arXiv:0708.2448
Dec 6 Aptekar A. E. Dementyev, D. G. Cory, C. Ramanathan Dynamic nuclear polarization in silicon microparticles http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4076
Dec 13 Marcos S. Gustavsson, R. Leturcq, T. Ihn, and K. Ensslin Measurements of higher-order noise correlations in a quantum dot with a finite bandwidth detector. PHYSICAL REVIEW B 75, 075314 (2007)
Dec 20 Foletti U. Kemiktarak, T. Ndukum, K. C. Schwab, K. L. Ekinci Radio-frequency scanning tunnelling microscopy Nature 450, 85 - 88 (01 Nov 2007)
Jan 17 Kuemmeth H. Ingerslev Jørgensen, K. Grove-Rasmussen, K.-Y. Wang, A. M. Blackburn, K. Flensberg, P. E. Lindelof, D. A. Williams Singlet-Triplet Physics and Shell Filling in Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dots http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3245
Jan 24 Krich E.J. Koop, B.J. van Wees, D. Reuter, A.D. Wieck, C.H. van der Wal Spin Accumulation and Spin Relaxation in a Large Open Quantum Dot http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2699
Jan 31 Miller P. Roulleau, F. Portier, P. Roche, A. Cavanna, G. Faini, U. Gennser, D. Mailly Direct measurement of the coherence length of edge states in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2806
Feb 7 McClure C.R. Dean, B.A. Piot, P. Hayden, S. Das Sarma, G. Gervais, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West Intrinsic Gap of the v=5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3312
Feb 14 Venkatachalam Markus König, Steffen Wiedmann, Christoph Brüne, Andreas Roth, Hartmut Buhmann, Laurens W. Molenkamp, Xiao-Liang Qi, Shou-Cheng Zhang Quantum Spin Hall Insulator State in HgTe Quantum Wells Science vol 318 page 766
Feb 28 Churchill
Mar 3 Waissman