AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MARCH MEETINGS
2015
Jesse Kanter (The Graduate Center and City College of the CUNY); Scott Dietrich (Graduate Center, CUNY); William Mayer (Graduate Center, CUNY, ); Sergey Vitkalov (CUNY-CCNY); Alexey Bykov (Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; A.V.Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia)
Intersubband Oscillations in GaAs Quantum Wells with Three Populated Subbands
Session G5: Integer Quantum Hall Effects
William Mayer (The Graduate Center and City College of the CUNY); Scott Dietrich (Physics Department, City College of the CUNY); Sergey Vitkalov (Physics Department, City College of the CUNY); Alexey Bykov (Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; A.V.Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia)
Dynamics of Quantal Heating in Electron Systems with Discrete Spectra
Session G5: Integer Quantum Hall Effects
Scott Dietrich (The Graduate Center and City College of the CUNY); William Mayer (Graduate Center, CUNY); Jesse Kanter (Graduate Center, CUNY); Sergey Vitkalov (CUNY-CCNY)
Broadband Coupling of Microwave Signals to Thin Conductors in Cryogenic Systems
Session B21: Detectors, Sensors, & Transducers
Qing Zhang (The Graduate Center and City College of the CUNY); Michael Baker (CCNY and New York University); Yizhang Chen (New York University); Andrew Kent (New York University); Theocharis Stamatatos (Brock University, Ontario); Myriam Sarachik (CUNY-CCNY)
Magnetic Behavior of a Dy8 Molecular Nanomagnet
Session B31: Focus Session: Single Molecule Magnets
Aline Hubard (The Graduate Center and City College of the CUNY), Corey O'Hern , (Yale University), Mark Shattuck
Experimental avalanches in a two-dimensional rotating drum: Universality or a first-order phase transition?
Session Z44: Focus Session: Jamming in Granular Media III
Daniela Pagliero (CUNY-CCNY); Abdelghani Laraoui (CUNY-CCNY); Jacob Henshaw (CUNY-CCNY); Carlos Meriles (CUNY-CCNY)
Recursive polarization of nuclear spins in diamond at arbitrary magnetic field
Session F31: Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Defects in Diamond and SiC
2014
Zhusong Li (CUNY-CCNY), Corey S. O'Hern (Yale University), Mark D. Shattuck (CUNY-CCNY)
New order metric for 3D packings
Aline Hubard (The Graduate Center and City College of the City University of New York), Mark Shattuck (The Graduate Center and City College of the City University of New York), Corey O'Hern (Yale University Departments of Mechanical Engineering \& Materials Science and Physics)
Frictional families in 2D experimental disks under periodic gravitational compaction
Mark R. Kanner (Levich Institute and Physics Department at City College and CUNY Graduate Center), Carl Schreck (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Corey O'Hern (Yale University), Mark D. Shattuck (Levich Institute and Physics Department at City College)
Contact Network Statistics During Vibration of Disk Packings
Haiming Deng (The City College of New York - CUNY), Lukas Zhao (The City College of New York - CUNY), Travis Wade (Ecole Polytechnique - Palaiseau), Marcin Konczykowski (Ecole Polytechnique - Palaiseau), Lia Krusin-Elbaum (The City College of New York - CUNY)
Topological insulator nanowires and nanowire hetero-junctions
Jeff Secor (The City College of New York - CUNY), Simone Raoux (IBM Research - Yorktown Hts), Inna Korzhovska (The City College of New York - CUNY), Lia Krusin-Elbaum, (CUNY-CCNY)
Spectral Evolution of Raman Scattering in Sputtered Topological Insulator Films
Joseph Serene (APS Treasurer/Publisher), Michael Lubell (APS Director of Public Affairs and Zemansky Professor of Physics, The City College of New York - CUNY)
Town Hall Meeting: Open Access and Open Data: What They Mean for APS Journals
Lin Bo (Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, and The Graduate Center, CUNY), Adrian Baule (Levich Institute, City College of New York, and School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London), Romain Mari (Levich Institute, City College of New York), Louis Portal (Levich Institute, City College of New York), Hernan Makse (Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York)
Mean-field theory of random close packings of axisymmetric particles
Vasilios Deligiannakis (Department of Physics, City College of New York), Siddharth Dhomkar (Department of Physics Queens College, CUNY, NY 11367), Haojie Ji (Department of Physics Queens College, CUNY, NY 11367), Bidisha Roy (Department of Physics Queens College, CUNY, NY 11367), Daniela Pagliero (Department of Physics City College of New York, CUNY, NY 10031), Igor L. Kuskovsky (Department of Physics Queens College, CUNY, NY 11367), Maria C. Tamargo (Department of Chemistry City College of New York, CUNY, NY 10031),Carlos A. Meriles (Department of Physics City College of New York, CUNY, NY 10031)
Time Resolved Kerr Rotation Studies on Sub-monolayer Type-II ZnTe/ZnSe Quantum Dots
David Schmeltzer (City College of N.Y.)
Interactions and Bosonization for Topological Insulators
Stefan Elrington (Yale University), Thibault Bertrand (Yale University), Merideth Frey (Wesleyan University), Mark Shattuck (The City College of New York), Corey O'Hern (Yale University), Sean Barrett (Yale University)
Developing a Magnetic Resonance Imaging measurement of the forces within 3D granular materials under external loads
Harry Charalambous (The City College of New York), Mark D. Shattuck (The City College of New York), Corey S. O'Hern (Yale University)
Experimental measure of sphere packing probability in a Quasi-2D channel
Scott Dietrich (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York), William Mayer (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York), Sergey Vitkalov (Physics Department, City College of the City University of New York, New York), Andrey Sergeev (SUNY Research Foundation, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY)
I-V characteristics of atomically thin superconducting La2−xSrxCuO4 films
GIOVANNI MILIONE A WINNER OF EMIL WOLF OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION FOR 2014
Giovanni Milione has been selected as a winner of the Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition for his paper titled "Radial and azimuthal polarized vector Bessel beams". Mr. Milione is a Ph.D. student in the Optical Science Program at at The City College of New York, Department of Physics and Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers; his mentor is Distinguished Professor Robert Alfano. Mr. Milione's research is in the new form of light called Complex Light. His October presentation for Physics Majors Month was "How to be a successful physics student" and "Advancing physics with complex light: Nanoscale imaging to quantum cryptography." He is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and is affiliated with NEC Labs America Inc., Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, Physics Dept., CCNY; Graduate Center CUNY. He was an Emil Wolf Outstanding Student finalist in 2011 and a winner in 2012.
The Emil Wolf Prize is awarded by the Optical Society of America Foundation, Optics Communications published by Elsevier, the University of Rochester Physics Department, the Institute of Optics and FiO0. The papers were read at the Optical Society of America's Frontiers in Optics conference in October, 2014.
Chambliss Astronomy Achievement
Congratulations to our own Ellianna Schwab for being a winner of the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award poster competition! The Astronomy Achievement Student Awards are given to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the American Astronomical Society. Awardees are honored with a Chambliss medal or, in the case of honorable mention, a certificate. The presentations were during the 227th Meeting: 4–8 January 2016, in Kissimmee, Florida.
CCNY Physics at the American Physical Society March Meeting
2016 Monday–Friday, March 14–18, 2016; Baltimore, Maryland
William Mayer, Jesse Kanter, Sergey Vitkalov (City College of New York, CUNY Graduate Center), Alexey Bykov (Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Magneto-Inter-Subband Oscillations in GaAs quantum wells with three populated subbands placed in tilted magnetic fields.
William Mayer has made presentation of his research in condensed matter physics. The magnetotransport of highly mobile two-dimensional electrons in wide GaAs single quantum wells with three populated subbands placed in tilted magnetic fields is studied. The bottoms of the lower two subbands have nearly the same energy while the bottom of the third subband has a much higher energy (E1 ≈ E2 <<E3). At zero in-plane magnetic fields, magnetointersubband oscillations (MISO) between the ith and j th subbands are observed. An application of in-plane magnetic field produces dramatic changes in MISO and the corresponding electron spectrum. At small perpendicular magnetic fields the semiclassical regime of electron propagation is identified. In contrast, at strong magnetic fields relatively weak oscillating variations of the electron spectrum with the in-plane magnetic field are observed. At intermediate magnetic fields, the electron spectrum undergoes a transition between these two regimes through magnetic breakdown. In this transition regime MISO with odd quantum number k terminate, while MISO corresponding to even k evolve continuously into the high-field regime. These results are published in Physical Review B 93,115309 (2016).
Session S51: Thermodynamic & Transport Properties of Semiconductors
Jesse Kanter (The Graduate Center, City College, CUNY);Francesca Arese Lucini (Graduate Center, CCNY CUNY); Alexandra Duboy (The Graduate Center, City College, CUNY); T.D. Mishima (Univ. of Oklahoma); M.B. Santos (Univ. of Oklahoma); Javad Shabani (Graduate Center, CCNY CUNY) Quantum Hall states in strained InAs heterostructures
In a recent development it was realized that non-Abelian quasiparticles, parafermion zero-modes emerge at an interface between a superconductor and two dimensional electron system (2DES) in the quantum Hall regime. [1]. Unlike widely used GaAs systems, surface level pinning in InAs could allow for fabrication of transparent contacts to superconductors. However, no fractional quantum Hall state has been observed in InAs quantum wells so far. Whether this is due to the type of disorder present in the quantum well is not clear. In this work, we study the transport and dingle mobility of 2DESs confined to strained InAs quantum wells as a function of electron density and spacer thickness to the surface. We compare our results to early observation of fractional quantum Hall states in GaAs. [1] R. S. K. Mong, et al. Phys. Rev. X 4, 011036 (2014)
Session F51: 2DEG and Quantum Hall Effect
Jacob Henshaw (The Graduate Center, City College, CUN); Carlos Meriles (Graduate Center, CCNY CUNY) No title
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is presently the focus of widespread attention for applications ranging from quantum information processing to nanoscale metrology. Of great utility is the ability to optically initialize the NV charge state, which has an immediate impact on the center's light emission properties. Here, we use two-color microscopy in NV-rich, type-1b diamond to demonstrate fluorescence-encoded long-term storage of classical information. As a proof of principle, we write, reset, and rewrite various patterns with 2-D binary bit density comparable to present DVD-ROM technology. The strong fluorescence signal originating from the diffraction-limited bit volume allows us to transition from binary to multi-valued encoding, which translates into a significant storage capacity boost. Finally, we show that our technique preserves information written on different planes of the diamond crystal and thus serves as a platform for three-dimensional storage. Substantial enhancement in the bit density could be achieved with the aid of super resolution microscopy techniques already employed to discriminate between NVs with sub-diffraction, nanometer accuracy, a regime where the storage capacity could exceed 1017 bytes/cm3
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Cody Youmans (The Graduate Center, City College, CUNY); Pouyan Ghaemi (Graduate Center, CCNY CUNY) Topological Edge States in Pnictides (No link)
In this talk he showed the coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity leads to appearance of robust edge states.
Session on Friday, March 18, 2016.
Two Physics Majors attend Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Conference
Kamonasish Chakraborty and Zabir Hossain, undergraduate Physics Majors whose mentor is Distinguished Professor Robert Alfano, attended the FiO 2013/LS XXIX conference in Orlando, Florida, October 6-10. Their abstracts were presented representing CCNY and the Physics Department. The FiO/LS conference is sponsored by The Optical Society (OSA), Frontiers in Optics 2013, collocated with the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science's Annual Meeting, Laser Science XXIX. Mr. Chakraborty and Mr. Hosssain presented their research during Physics Students Month on October 3: "Stimulated Raman Scattering in Magnegas and H$_2$-CO mixtures." and "Second Harmonic and Optical Parametric Generation in KDP Using Supercontinuum Light from a Photonic Crystal Fiber"
CCNY STEM Majors Scoop Up Record Five Wins at National Conference
Tai-Denae Bradley, mathematics and physics major, is among five City College of New York science students who brought home a record five wins for research presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) last semester in San Jose, California.
Physics Students Month Presentations by Kelly Greenland, "The Physics of Biophysics" and Alan Stern, "Artificial Proteins as Self Assembling Anti Reflective Monolayers" October 8, 2013. Photos by Liutauras Rusaitis.
Summer
2014:
Harry Charalambous at University of Chicago: "Continuous Cryogenic He-3 Adsorption Pump" . "I did my REU at the University of Chicago. David Schuster was my advisor. He's a professor there who works on low temperature physics, namely circuit quantum electrodynamics using SQUIDS and on the effects of electrons on liquid helium. He's also taken to redesigning the dilution refrigerators used in labs to get to the millikelvin temperature range (he has 2 of them already).
2013:
Benjamin Diamond at CCNY, Quantum Mechanics workshop working with Dr. Brian Tiburzi and various other physics students I knew since before the workshop It was taxing on the mind but I appreciated the experience
Tai-Danae Bradley at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ, attending the IAS's annual 2-week long "Program for Women and Mathematics" which serves as a mentoring program for aspiring women mathematicians and seeks to shed light on the issues of gender imbalance in mathematics. We attended daily lectures, research seminars, and colloquia on this year's topic - Combinatorics and Graph Theory. Worked with other undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs and professional researchers from universities all over the US (and some from Europe). It was really an unforgettable experience!
Tai-Danae Bradley at CCNY working on my honors research project in Number Theory (a branch of mathematics, my second major) and worked with Dr. Brooke Feigon (Math Dept.) and two other students (Yin Choi Cheng and Yan Fei Luo). We have compiled our results into a paper and submitted it to the undergraduate math journal "Involve." We are hoping to be published soon! I feel better equipped for graduate work and have learned so much more than expected - not only new mathematics, but also some of the nuances of what it takes to be a truly successful researcher.
2010:
Alisa Agafonova, Undergraduate research for Professor Lia Krusin, City College, CUNY
"Production of nanoplate crystals of topological insulator Sb2Te3 by catalyst-free vapor-liquid-solid method. Study of the crystals using transmission electron microscopy."
2009:
Alisa Agafonova, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Systems Biology Center NY, NY. Mentor - Azi Lipshtat.
"Stochastic Effects in Polymerization Dynamics" Constructed a series of computational models, to analyze the dynamics of the polymerization process, using Kinetic Monte Carlo (Gillespie) algorithm for stochastic model, and the Master Equation to calculate the steady state length distribution.
Two Physics Majors attend Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Conference
Kamonasish Chakraborty and Zabir Hossain, undergraduate Physics Majors whose mentor is Distinguished Professor Robert Alfano, attended the FiO 2013/LS XXIX conference in Orlando, Florida, October 6-10. Their abstracts were presented representing CCNY and the Physics Department. The FiO/LS conference is sponsored by The Optical Society (OSA), Frontiers in Optics 2013, collocated with the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science's Annual Meeting, Laser Science XXIX. Mr. Chakraborty and Mr. Hosssain presented their research during Physics Students Month on October 3: "Stimulated Raman Scattering in Magnegas and H$_2$-CO mixtures." and "Second Harmonic and Optical Parametric Generation in KDP Using Supercontinuum Light from a Photonic Crystal Fiber"
CCNY STEM Majors Scoop Up Record Five Wins at National Conference
Tai-Denae Bradley, mathematics and physics major, is among five City College of New York science students who brought home a record five wins for research presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) last semester in San Jose, California.
Science Division CCNY
The CCNY Division of Science gathers and publishes "accessResearch@CITY" (Annals of City College Exemplary Science Student Research in Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, Physics)
"Modelling the Dynamics of a Tumbling Spring (The Slinky)," Student: Moriel Schottlender; Faculty mentor: V. Parameswaran Nair
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