Reminder: BNC Virtual Faculty Seminar Series TODAY @ 12:00noon. [cid:image004.jpg@01D685C0.EB336F80] The BNC Virtual Faculty Seminar Series is designed to provide faculty a platform to present an overview of their research and the opportunity for collaborative discussion with other BNC faculty and researchers across six colleges and 15 academic units. Arnab Banerjee Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy November 5th, 2020 | 12:00pm Join Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93857631004 Title: Co-design towards exotic spin-based systems and devices Abstract: Magnetic materials have long been used for magnetic storage applications, driven primarily by their property that each spin influences the spin nearby to create stable long-range structures that can store information. However, in presence of high degree of fluctuations, either thermal or the quantum zero-point motion, these magnets can produce states of matter which can be highly exotic. In this talk, I describe some ongoing endeavours in the fascinating world of quantum magnetism, especially 2D quantum magnets. These are states where the alignment and the motion of the spins define the phase of matter. The topology of the motion can give rise to exotic quasiparticles and anyonic statistics. How do we detect such exotic motion of spins deep inside the Mott insulating state where conventional transport isn't an option? Can we think of using these exotic magnets for future devices, or perhaps to benchmark future quantum computers and devices? In this seminar, I will discuss ideas which the community can pursue in the future on such topics. Bio: Arnab Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Purdue University starting in January 2020. He also holds a position at the Quantum Computing Institute at the ORNL as a Guest Scientist. He obtained Bachelors and Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He completed to Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Physics as a Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar fellow working with Prof. Thomas Rosenbaum on the dissertation "Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions Revealed using X-ray and transport". He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for his post-doctoral fellowship where he pioneered the discovery of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid state - a new quantum phase of matter. From 2017 - 2019 he served as a scientist at ORNL working on both neutron scattering, thermal transport and quantum computing. He has been awarded the Director's Award, the highest award at ORNL, the MRS postdoctoral award, and top science achievement of the year award by the Discovery magazine in 2017 for this work. Upcoming BNC Virtual Faculty Seminars, Fall 2020: Date Faculty Title 9/10/20 Ali Shakouri, Director of Birck Nanotechnology Center Overview of SMART Industry Consortium 9/17/20 Luna Lu, Professor of Civil Engineering - *Note time change* (10am - 11am): Co-Hosted with ECE Nanotechnology for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Applications 9/24/20 Alex Ma, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Superconducting circuits for quantum simulation and quantum information sciences 10/01/20 Hadiseh Alaeian, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering atom-Nanophotonics at low dimensions 10/08/20 Jianguo Mei, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Semiconducting Polymers: A Journey from Scientific Curiosity to Technology Commercialization 10/15/20 Chen-Lung Hung, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Engineering atom-nanophotonics hybrid lattices 10/22/20 Chi Hwan Lee, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Sticker-Like Flexible Sensors for Wearable Healthcare Applications 10/29/20 Ryan Wagner, Research Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering Atomic force microscopy as a tool for multiphysics nanoscale characterization 11/5/20 Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Co-design towards exotic spin-based systems and devices 11/12/20 Krishna Jayant, Professor of BME - *Note time change* (10am - 11am): Co-Hosted with ECE 11/19/20 Xiulin Ruan, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering First Principles and Machine Leaning Predictions of Thermal and Optical Properties, and the Developments of Radiative Cooling Paints Spring 2021 Schedule: Date Faculty Title 2/4/21 Yi Xie, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering Degradation of Structural Materials and Fuels in Nuclear Systems 2/11/21 Letian Dou, Assistant Professor, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Organic-Perovskite Hybrid Quantum Wells, Heterostructure, and Optoelectronics 2/18/21 Nikhilesh Chawla, Ransburg Professor, School of Materials Engineering 4D Materials Science - Probing Microstructural Evolution Through Time-Resolved Imaging 2/25/21 3/4/21 David Cappelleri, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Microrobotics Research Highlights 3/11/21 Stylianos Chatzidakis, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering 3/18/21 Reading Day 3/25/21 Tyler Tallman, Assistant Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics 4/1/21 4/8/21 4/15/21 4/22/21 4/29/21 Dead Week 5/6/21 Finals Week Thanks! 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