Seminar on experimental quantum matter research

Introduction

General idea

The goal of this seminar series is two fold:

  • we want to give students a flavor on how research in quantum matter is done, esp. in our group
  • we use it to share research news and challenges in our group and with students.

Each week, there will be a talk by one of the participants, inclding the group members and students. There will be a lot of discussion. Talks are on experimental quantum matter research. The topocis are usually

  • an idea for a new experiment, with an introduction to the reseach question and why it is important, some literature review, a proposed experiment, and estimates for signal and noise
  • an overview or recent quantum matter research
  • an overview of a challenge that was recently encountered
  • an summary of an intresting experiment done by another group

Before each talk, you will get a paper (often a more easy-to-read review) that will help you understand the talk. Still, we don’t expect you to alwasy understand everything. It’s a bit like when you go to a conference: depending on the talk, you get the main idea or all the technical details or all or some of it. You are encouraged to ask questions.

What will expected from you

You should ask questions and give us feedback. You will also give one presentation. You are quite free with the subject, but plase discuss it with me, at least 4 weeks before your presentation.

What will be graded

Your grade will be based on your presentation, including on how you answer questions during or after the talk.

How do we communicatie

We will update the schedule here, and comunicate per email.

Location

We will do the seminar in Room MU118. To find us, take the tunnel across Amalienstrasse 75. Then take the door to your right in the middle of the tunnel to enter a long corridor. You will find the door to MU118 on the right hand side. Sometimes (when the speaker is in Leiden), we will have the semiar on the following link https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/my/x892376.milan?pwd=g1sWzQiNXcNel1ubxyvak68gbbgqMW.1

Schedule

The schedule will change, and we will continousely update it. The student talks will be at the end.

Tuesday 21.04.2026, 10:15 Hybrid, talk by Yudai Sato Paper to prepare: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14165

Tuesday 28.04.2026, 10:15 Hybrid, Amber Mozes Paper to prepare: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-021-00386-3 , https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-021-00386-3