Seminar on experimental quantum matter research

Introduction

General idea

The goal of this seminar series is twofold:

  • we want to give students a flavor of 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, including the group members and students. There will be a lot of discussion. Talks are on experimental quantum matter research. The topics are usually

  • an idea for a new experiment, with an introduction to the research question and why it is important, some literature review, a proposed experiment, and estimates for signal and noise
  • an overview of recent quantum matter research
  • an overview of a challenge that was recently encountered
  • a summary of an interesting 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 always 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 is 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 please 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 communicate

We will update the schedule here, and communicate by 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 seminar on the following link https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/my/x892376.milan?pwd=g1sWzQiNXcNel1ubxyvak68gbbgqMW.1

Schedule

The schedule will change, and we will continuously update it. The student talks will be at the end, after the Christmas break.

From 29.10.2026 on, the seminar takes place on Thursdays at 9:15 (previously Tuesdays at 10:15).

Tuesday 20.10.2026, 10:15 Yudai Sato, Cuprate studied by scanning tunneling microscopy, Review of cuprates is in [Nature 518, 179 (2015).(https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14165)]

Thursday 29.10.2026, 9:15 Thomas Gozlinski

Thursday 05.11.2026, 9:15 Premakumar Yanda

Thursday 12.11.2026, 9:15 Jiasen Niu

Thursday 19.11.2026, 9:15 Sanghun Lee

Thursday 26.11.2026, 9:15 Louw Feenstra

Thursday 03.12.2026, 9:15 Stefan Rudel

Thursday 10.12.2026, 9:15 Devidas TR

Thursday 17.12.2026, 9:15 Fabian Steinmeyer

No seminar on 24.12.2026 and 31.12.2026 (Christmas break)

Thursday 07.01.2027, 9:15 Yuval Nitzav

Thursday 14.01.2027, 9:15 Student talks 1 and 2 (TBA)

Thursday 21.01.2027, 9:15 Student talks 3 and 4 (TBA)

Thursday 28.01.2027, 9:15 Student talks 5 and 6 (TBA)

Thursday 04.02.2027, 9:15 Student talks 7 and 8 (TBA)