University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


 


Newest talk(s)

 

RT.pptx   RT.pdf   The EPR-Bell experts: if we don't like locality, what's left?(19 April, 2024)

 


 

A1.pdf Superfluidity, Phase Coherence and the New Bose-Condensed Alkali Gases

A2.pdf BEC: A Tapas: of Topics

A3.pdf Introduction to High-Energy Low-Temperature Physics

A3S.pdf The "Arrow of Time" in Quantum Mechanics

A4-2019.pptx   A4-2019.pdf   Cuprate Superconductivity Without a "Model"; A4.pdf

A5-2019.pptx  A5-2018.pptx A5-2013.pptx   A5-2013.pdf   2011 version  2007 version Bell's Theorem, Entanglement, Teleportation, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Computing and All That

A6.pdf Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth?*

A6_PLUS_1.pdf   A6_PLUS_1.ppt   Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth?* plus one slide from Paul Kwiat

A7_TCSUH.pdf   A7_TCSUH.pptx   Superfluid 3He: Some Pre-History

A7.pdf Nobel Superfluid 3He: Some Pre-History

A8.pdf Ultracold Fermi Alkali Gases: Bose Condensation Meets Cooper Pairing

A9.pdf   A9.ppt Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Its Successes, Its Limitations, and Its Pitfalls

A10.pdf-older   A10.ppt Some Thoughts on the Prospects for Topological Quantum Computing

 

AB90.pdf   AB90.pptx   Majorana Fermions in Condensed-Matter Physics

ABlect14.2.pptx   ABLect14.2.pdf   What Is Superconductivity?

 

AC1.pdf   AC1.pptx Cooper Pairing in Exotic Fermi Superfuilds - Lecture 1

AC2.pdf   AC2.pptx Cooper Pairing in Exotic Fermi Superfuilds - Lecture 2

AC3.pdf   AC3.pptx Cooper Pairing in Exotic Fermi Superfuilds - Lecture 3

AC4.pdf   AC4.pptx Cooper Pairing in Exotic Fermi Superfuilds - Lecture 4

 

AIP.pdf   AIP.ppt Ultracold Fermi Alkali Gases: Bose Condensation Meets Cooper Pairing

AMN5.ppt 100 Years of Superconductivity: Ancient History and Current Challenges

ANL.pptx   ANL.pdf   unknown title (14 May, 2021)

AP.pdf Some Thoughts on the Prospects for Topological Quantum Computing

APS.pdf Superfluid 3He: Understanding the Experiments

APS2016.pdf   APS2016.pptx   Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Condensed Matter Physics

APS2016-LargerWithMorePages.pdf   APS2016-LargerWithMorePages.pptx   Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Condensed Matter Physics

 


 

B1-2019.pptx   B1.pdf   B1.ppt  Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics

B1_QMpop.pdf   Basic "experimental fact"

B2.pdf   B2.pptx   What Can We Do With a Quantum Liquid?

B2-GYSS17.pdf   B2-GYSS17.pptx   What Can We Do With a Quantum Liquid?

B3-2016.ppt      B3-2016-no-videos pptx       B3-2016_retyped.pptx   Why Can't Time Run Backwards? (older versions: B3.ppt   B3 web version   B3 no-videos pptx   retyped 2013)

 

BBCS.ppt   Reminders About BCS Model

BCSL.ppt   BCSL.pdf  Application of BCS-like Ideas to Superfluid 3-He

BEC-BCS_crossover.pdf   BEC-BCS_crossover.pptx   The BEC - BCS crossover: what (if anything) do we fundamentally not understand?

BF.pdf   BF.pptx   Solar Flares and 'Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions'

budakian.pptx budakian-converted.ppt Observation of half Fluxoid States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4

BIT.pptx   BIT.pdf   Remarks on the Present and Future of Condensed Matter Physics(18 April, 2023)

 


 

C3.pdf   C3.ppt What is Realism in Physics? 75th Annual DPG meeting, Dresden, 16 March 2011

C4.pdf   C4.ppt Schrödinger's Cat and Her Laboratory Cousins, 1st Erwin Schrodinger Lector, Wien, 18 March 2011

C5.pdf   C5.ppt Theoretical Work on Superconductivity up to 1956

C6.pdf   C6.pptx Introduction to Topological Quantum Computing, CIFAR Winter School 5, April 2011

 

CIFAR-2010.ppt   CIFAR.pdf  Some Thoughts on "All Electronic" Superconductivity

CIFAR11.pptx   CIFAR11.pdf  Macrorealism and "Weak Measurement"

CIFAR12.ppt   CIFAR12.pdf   Basic Quantum Mechanics, and Some Surprising Consequences

 

CML.pptx   CML.pdf   The Coulomb Interaction & Superconductivity in Quasi-2-D Systems (7 September, 2022)

CQ.ppt   Broken Symmetry

CS.ppt   Cuprate Superconductivity - The Current State of play

 


 

DBL.pptx   DBL.pdf   "Realism" and the Physical World

DF.pptx   DF.pdf   SQUIDS and Related Systems(30 September, 2022)

DJT.pptx   DJT.pdf   The London Moment of a Rotating Superconductor

DP.pptx   DP.pdf   Quasiparticles in Normal and Superfluid Fermi Liquids (more questions than answers …)

 


 

E2.pdf   E2.ppt  Can Superconductors Help with Energy and Environmental Problems?

 


 

FCEP.pptx   FCEP.pdf   Energetic Considerations in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

FP_IQC 051310.pdf Testing Quantum Mechanics Towards the Level of Everyday Life: Recent Progress and Current Prospects

FSEF.pptx   FSEF.pdf   What Is Superconductivity? What Is It Good For?

 


 

GYSS.ppt   GYSS.pdf The Structure of a World (which may be) Described by Quantum Mechanics (2013)

 


 

IAS.pdf   IAS.pptx   Topological Quantum Computing: Some Possibly Relevant Physical Systems

IAS-b.pptx   IAS-b.pdf  Topological Quantum Computing: Some Possibly Relevant Physical Systems (2018)

IC.ppt   Title unknown

ICMT.ppt   Traditional Subject-matter of Condensed Matter Theory: Crystalline Solids, Liquids ...

ICTP.ppt   Some (Very) Basic Questions Concerning Bose Condensation and Superfluidity

IQC6.ppt   Lecture 6: The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: The cases of v=5/2 and v=12/5

 


 

JP.ppt   Quantum Mechanics in the Macroscopic Limit

JST.ppt   Topological Quantum Computing/Memory

 


 

KS.pptx   KS.pdf  Klaus's Work on the Spin-Boson Problem

Keio.ppt   2008

 


 

LBEC.ppt   2013

LED.pptx   LED.pdf   Quantum Information Promises New Insight

LPK.pptx    LPK.pdf Topological Quantum Computing in (p + ip) Fermi Superfluids: Some Unorthodox Thoughts

LPK.pptx     LPK.pdf Topological Quantum Computing in (p + ip) Fermi Superfluids: Some Unorthodox Thoughts

LT29.pptx   LT29.pdf   What Makes Superfluid 3He Special? (18 August, 2022)

 


 

M2S-2015.pdf   M2S-2015.pptx   High-Temperature Superconductivity: Some Energetic Considerations

MM.pptx   MM.pdf  Some Current Research Problems

MRD.pptx   MRD.pdf   Macroscopic Quantum Tunnelling and Coherence: The Early Days

MSM19.pptx   MSM19.pdf   The quest for Majoran fermions

MZM.pdf   MZM.pptx   The Mean-Field Method in the Theory of Superconductivity: Is it Adequate for Quantum-Information Purposes?

 


 

Nobel.pdf   Nobel.ppt  

NW.pptx   NW.pdf  Liquid Helium-3 and Its Metallic Cousins -- Exotic Pairing and Exotic Exitations

 


 

PlatosTimaeus.pdf   PlatosTimaeus.ppt   Plato's Timaeus

PP.pptx   PP.pdf   Why I Don't Believe that Quantum Mechanics is the Whole Truth

PSM.pdf   Topological Quantum Computing in (p+ip) Fermi Superfluids and Strongium Ruthenate: Prospects and Problems

 


 

QCrypt.ppsx   QCrypt.pptx  The Structure of a "World" (Which May Be) Described by Quantum Mechanics

QDSN.pptx   QDSN.pdf  QDSN - Quantum Dissipation QDSN.ppt

QInf.pdf   Quantum Information Promises New Insights

QM90.pdf   QM90.pptx   Realism Versus Quantum Mechanics: Implications of Some Recent Experiments

QMpop.ppt   QMP2.ppt  scans of pages put into a powerpoint document

 


 

RRIP.pptx   RRIP.pdf   The Serendipitous Road to a Nobel Prize

RT.pptx   RT.pdf   The EPR-Bell experts: if we don't like locality, what's left?(19 April, 2024)

 


 

S.pptx   S.pdf  Liquid Helium-3 and Its Metallic Cousins -- Exotic Pairing and Exotic Exitations

S2.pdf   S2.ppt  The Structure of a World Described by Quantum Mechanics

S2-13_Dec_2013pptx   S2-13_Dec_2013.pdf The Structure of a World Described by Quantum Mechanics

SCCP.pdf   SCCP.pptx   The Berry Phase of a Bogoliubov Quasiparticle in an Abrikosov Vortex

SDS.pdf   SDS.pptx   The Berry Phase of a Bogoliubov Quasiparticle in an Abrikosov Vortex

 

SJTU_01_2017.pptx       SJTU_01_2017.pdf  

SJTU_02_2017.pptx       SJTU_02_2017.pdf  

SJTU_03_2017.pptx       SJTU_03_2017.pdf  

SJTU_04_2017.pptx       SJTU_04_2017.pdf  

SJTU_05_2017.pptx       SJTU_05_2017.pdf  

SJTU_06_2017.pptx       SJTU_06_2017.pdf  

SJTU_07_2017.pptx       SJTU_07_2017.pdf  

SJTU_08_2017.pptx       SJTU_08_2017.pdf  

SJTU_09_2017.pptx       SJTU_09_2017.pdf  

SJTU_10_2017.pptx       SJTU_10_2017.pdf  

SJTU_11_2017.pptx       SJTU_11_2017.pdf  

SJTU_12_2017.pptx       SJTU_12_2017.pdf  

 

SUT.pptx   SUT.pdf   What Exactly Do the "EPR-Bell" Experiments Tell Us About the World? (OR: Locality, "Realism" and All Than)(19 May, 2023)

 


 

T1.pptx   T1.pdf  T1 - On the Structure of a World (Which May Be) Described By Quantum Mechanics   T1.ppt (older version of powerpoint)

TCSUH.pptx   TCSUH.pdf The Physics of YBCO (and other high-temperature superconductors)

TD-1 pdf     TD-1 pptx TD-Lecture1: Reminders Re BCS Theory

TD2 pdf   TD-2 pptx   TD-Lecture2-Superfluid-3-He

TQC.pdf Some Thoughts on the Prospects for Topological Quantum Computing

TQM.pptx   TQM.pdf   Remarks on the Present and Future of Condensed Matter Physics(18 May, 2023)

TQT.pptx; TQT.pdf On the Bogoliubov - de Gennes Equations

TTLS.pptx   TTLS.pdf The "Tunnelling Two-Level Systems" Model of the Low-Temperature Properties of Glasses: Successes, Problems, Prospects

TM.pdf   TM.pptx   Topological Superconductivity

TWS.ppt   Superfluid 3Theoretical work on Superconductivity Up to 1956

 


 

UCSC.pptx   UCSC.pdf   Quasiparticles in Normal and Superfluid Fermi Liquids

UM16.4.pdf   UM16.4.pptx   Realism Versus Quantum Mechanics: Implications of Recent Experiments

UIUC2016.pdf   UIUC2016.pptx   Realism Versus Quantum Mechanics: Implications of Some Experiments

UT.pptx   UT.pdf The Mean-Field Method in the Theory of Superconductivity: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?

 


 

VGRC.ppt 2008

 


 

YAfest2012.pptx   YAfest2012.pdf  Macrorealism, Noninvasiveness and Weak Measurement

ZF.pptx   ZF.pdf   The London Moment of a Rotating Superconductor: Some Unsuspected Subtleties

ZF-MC.pptx   ZF-MC.pdf   The London Moment of a Rotating Superconductor: Some Unsuspected Subtleties

 


Illinois Courses

Fall 2018 Physics 598SC1 Physics 598SC2 -- (local copy)

Fall 2017 Physics 419 -- (local copy)

Fall 2016 Physics 598 PTD & 2 -- (local copy)

Fall 2015 Physics 598 SC handouts -- SC1 homepage -- SC2 homepage -- (local copy)

Fall 2014 Physics 419/420 -- (local copy)

Fall 2013 Physics 598 PTD -- (local copy)

Fall 2012 Physics 419/420 -- (local copy)

Fall 2011 Physics 598 SC1 & 2 - (local copy)

Fall 2010 Physics 419/420 -- (local copy)

Fall 2009 Physics 598 PTD -- (local copy)

Fall 2008 Physics 598 SC1 & 2 -- (local copy)

Fall 2007 Physics 419 -- (local copy)

Fall 2006 Physics 504 local copy

 


Publications

incomplete list of publications and talks

 


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