PCS Institute for Basic Science Courses

Quasicrystalline Resonant States and Nonlinear Landau Fan Diagram in van der Waals Superlattices

Explore quasicrystalline resonant states and nonlinear Landau fan diagrams in van der Waals superlattices, examining unique electron behaviors in incommensurate configurations and moiré potentials.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
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Driven-Dissipative Dynamics of Trapped Ultracold Atom Systems Interacting with Background BECs

Explore ultracold atom dynamics in harmonic traps interacting with Bose-Einstein condensates. Learn about Raman laser coupling, Bogoliubov excitations, and steady-state preparation for quantum experiments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
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Quantum Scaling for the Metal-Insulator Transition in a Two-Dimensional Electron System

Explore quantum scaling for metal-insulator transitions in 2D electron systems, focusing on Gaussian approximation, critical exponents, and phase diagrams.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
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Josephson Tunneling Controlled by Spin-Orbit Interaction

Explore spin-orbit interaction's impact on Josephson tunneling, revealing quantum spin fluctuations and new possibilities for spin-active Josephson junctions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
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Finding the Missed Topological Operators in Lattice Models

Explore the profound connection between higher category theory and lattice models, uncovering solutions to long-standing topological operator challenges in quantum field theory.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 25 minutes
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Phenomenology of Unexpected Thermal Hall Transports

Explore unexpected thermal transport behaviors in materials, focusing on large thermal Hall effects and unusual phonon interactions with defects in key compounds like SrTiO3 and La2CuO4.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
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Nonlinear Energy and Charge Transport in Silicates - Experiments and Semiclassical Models

Explore hyperconductivity in silicates through experiments and semiclassical models. Examine charge transport via solitary waves, Klein-Gordon systems, and tight-binding models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
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Unraveling Opinion Dynamics - Insights from Network Science and the Ising Model

Explore opinion dynamics using network science and the Ising model. Discover how network topologies influence opinion formation and evolution across diverse structures, with insights from statistical physics simulations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
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• Free Video

Thermoelectric Transport Driven by Spin-Orbit Coupling

Explore thermoelectric effects in nanodevices with spin-orbit coupling, analyzing charge and heat transport through a quantum dot junction using Keldysh Green's function formalism.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
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Effects of Electron Wave Function in Optoelectronics and Transport

Explore electron wave function effects in optoelectronics and transport, including Berry curvature, topological states in bilayer graphene, anomalous Hall materials, and electron hydrodynamics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
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Absence of Breakdown of Ferrodark Solitons Exhibiting Snake Instability

Explore ferrodark solitons in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates, examining their stability, dynamics, and unique behaviors under different instabilities and perturbations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
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Topological Phases and Optimal Control in Arrays of Superconducting Qubits

Explore quantum geometric tensor concepts, Berry curvature, and quantum metric applications in superconducting qubit arrays for topological states and optimal quantum system control.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
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Coulomb Blockade in a Non-Thermalised Quantum Dot

Explore Coulomb blockade in non-thermalised quantum dots, examining non-equilibrium transport properties and potential conductance peaks as indicators of the non-thermalised regime.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
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Exploring Light-Induced Phenomena in Condensed Matter Physics within the Framework of Density-Functional Theory

Explore light-matter interactions in condensed matter physics using density-functional theory. Investigate giant bulk photovoltaic effect in WS2 nanotubes and optoelectronic manifestation of orbital angular momentum in helical Se chains.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
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Resonant Fractional Conductance in 1D Wigner Chains

Explore resonant fractional conductance in 1D Wigner chains, focusing on quantum point contacts, fractionally charged solitons, and conductance patterns in spinless and spinful cases.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
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