Mesoscopic and strongly correlated electron systems I.F. Schegolev Memorial Conference “Low-Dimensional Metallic and Superconducting Systems” October 11–16, 2009, Chernogolovka, Russia

October 11, Sunday

Morning Session:

Organic Metals and Superconductors –I

Chair: E.Yagubskii

09.00 – 09.15 Conference opening.
09.15 – 09.50 Serguei Brazovski. Ferroelectricity in Organic and Polymeric Conductors.
09.50 – 10.25 Gunji Saito. Development of Organic Conductors and Superconductors.
10.25 – 11.00 Joachim Wosnitza. Electronic properties of quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductors.
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break

Chair: S.Brazovskii

11.20 – 11.50 James Brooks. Review of recent NMR, Mossbauer, and magnetotransport investigations of magnetic and electronic ground states in organic conductors.
11.50 – 12.25 Kazushi Kanoda. Spin liquid in triangular-lattice organic Mott insulator.
12.25 – 13.00 Jaume Veciana. Electron tunneling studies across switchable and bistable surfaces made by self-assembling electroactive polychlorotriphenylmethyl radicals.
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

Magnetic Molecular Conductors

Chair: R.Shibaeva

14.00 – 14.35 Peter Day. Molecular organic-inorganic layer compounds as electronic functional materials.
14.35 – 15.10 Eugenio Coronado Miralles. Molecular design of Magnetic (super)conductors.    
15.10 – 15.45 Masahiro Yamashita. Electrical Conductivities and Kondo Peak of Single-Molecule Quantum Magnets.
15.45 – 16.00  Coffee break

Novel Superconductors – I

Chair: P.Muller

16.00 – 16.35 Hiroyoshi Nobukane. Parity violation in a chiral single domain Sr₂ RuO₄ : Implication of Majorana fermions.
16.35 – 17.10 Alexei Koshelev. Disorder-Induced Subgap States in Superconductors with Sign-Changing Order Parameter.
17.10 – 17.45 Yukio Tanaka. Topological edge states in superconducting systems.
17.45 – 18.15 James Valles. Experiments on a Cooper Pair Insulator.
19.00 Welcome party

October 12, Monday

Morning Session:

Digital and Quantum Josephson Circuits - I

Chair: A.Ustinov

09.00 – 09.35 Oleg Astafiev. Quantum optics with artificial quantum systems.
09.35 – 10.10 Dmitri Averin. Low-frequency noise and quantum measurements of superconducting flux qubits.
10.10 – 10.45 Miroslav Grajcar. Sisyphus cooling and pumping of linear oscillator by superconducting qubit.
10.45 – 11.05 Coffee break

Chair: D.Averin

11.05 – 11.35 Eugenii Ilichev. Losses in Coplanar Waveguide Resonators at Millikelvin temperatures.
11.35 – 12.10 Timothy Duty. Phase-flip transitions and amplification in a parametric oscillator based upon a SQUID-tunable microwave resonator.
12.10 – 12.45 Alexey Ustinov. Josephson junction as a tool to manipulate microscopic two-level systems
13.00-14.00 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

Digital and Quantum Josephson Circuits - II

Chair: O.Astafiev

14.00 – 14.35 Vasili Semenov. Reversible computing with nSQUID arrays
14.35 – 15.10 Marat Khabipov. Application of phase shifters in superconducting digital circuits

Superconducting Hybrid Structures - I

15.10 – 15.40 Jan Aarts. Domain walls and triplets in S/F structures. 
15.40 – 16.15 Vladislav Korenivski. Spin Transport in Metallic and Superconducting Nano-devices.
16.15 – 16.30 Coffee break

Chair: V.Ryazanov

16.30 – 17.00 Anatoli Sidorenko. Double Re-Entrant Superconductivity in SF-Hybrids.
17.00 – 17.30 Tristan Cren. Ultimate Vortex Confinement Studied by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy.   
17.30 – 18.05 Vitalii Vlasko-Vlasov. Combined domain structures and tunable electromagnetic response of superconducting/ferromagnetic hybrids.
19.00 Posters and Round table

October 13, Tuesday

Morning Session:

Superconducting Hybrid Structures – II

Chair: A.Sidorenko

09.00 – 09.30 Mikhail Kupriyanov. Spin valve effects in superconductor/ferromagnetic devices.
09.30 – 10.05 Yakov Fominov. Effective spin-flip scattering in diffusive superconducting proximity systems with magnetic disorder.
10.05 – 10.40 Yuri Latyshev. Interlayer tunneling spectroscopy of charge density wave materials and graphite in pulsed magnetic fields
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break

Chair: M.Kartsovnik

11.00 – 11.35 Mikhail Skvortsov. Proximity-induced superconductivity in graphene.

Novel Superconductors – II

11.35 – 12.10 Stefano Gariglio. Mapping the phase diagram of the LaAlO₃ /SrTiO₃ interface using the electric field effect.
12.10 – 12.45 Gennadiy Logvenov. High-temperature interface superconductivity.
12.45-14.00 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

Organic Metals and Superconductors – II

Chair: P.Day

14.00 – 14.35 Arzhang Ardavan. Fluctuating and unconventional superconductivity in organic molecular metals.
14.35 – 15.10 Patrick Batail. Charge Ordering in the Quarter-Filled Band Mott Insulators and High Pressure Metals d-(EDT-TTF-CONMe₂ )₂ X, X = Br and AsF₆
15.10 – 15.45 Jean-Paul Pouget. Charge ordering in quasi-one dimensional organic conductors
15.45 – 16.10 Elena Laukhina. From molecular organic conductors to a new generation of flexible high sensitive strain sensors.
16.10 – 16.25 Coffee break

Chair: G.Saito

16.25 – 17.00 Keizo Murata. What is found in TTF-TCNQ, TSeF-TCNQ and HMTSeF-TCNQ under Extreme Pressure and in High Magnetic Field?
17.00 – 17.35 Akiko Kobayashi. Single-component Molecular Conductors [M(tmdt)₂] : New p-d System with Strong Three- dimensionality (M =Ni, Pt, Au and Cu ; tmdt = trimethylenetetrathiafulvalenedithiolate)
17.35 – 18.10 Hayao Kobayashi. Possibilities of Pressure-induced Metallization of Molecular Crystals, TMTTeN and [Ni(ptdt)₂ ] and Anomalous Phase Transitions of Molecular Conductors Based on Transition Metal Complex Molecules with Extended-TTF Ligands

October 14, Wednesday

Morning Session:

Generation and Detection of Terahertz Waves by Superconducting Structures - I

Chair: M.Gaifullin

09.00 – 09.35 Valery Koshelets. Superconducting Integrated Terahertz Spectrometer for Atmosphere Monitoring and Radio Astronomy
09.35 – 10.10 Vladimir Krasnov. Phonon lasing in stacked intrinsic Josephson junctions.
10.10 – 10.45 Gregory Goltsman. Superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer mixer, direct detector and single-photon counter.
11.00 Excursion to Moscow

October 15, Thursday

Morning Session:

Organic Metals and Superconductors – III

Chair: R.Lyubovskaya

09.00 – 09.35 Andras Janossy. Confinement of spin diffusion to single molecular layers in layered organic conductor crystals
09.35 – 10.00 Rustem Lyubovskii. Magnetic oscillations in the 2D network of compensated coupled orbits of the quasi-two-dimensional organic metals (BEDT-TTF)₈[Hg₄X₁₂(C₆H₅Y)2], where X,Y=Cl, Br

Novel Superconductors – III

10.00 – 10.30 Alexander Golubov. Odd-frequency pairing in superconducting heterostructures.
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break

Chair: V.Krasnov

10.45 – 11.20 Alexander Kordyuk. Electrons in cuprates: view by ARPES.
11.20 – 11.55 Mark Kartsovnik. Probing the Fermi surface of an electron-doped cuprate superconductor by high field magnetotransport.
11.55 – 12.30 Paul Muller. Tuning superconductivity by carrier injection.
12.30 – 13.05 Nikolai Zhigadlo. Single crystals of FeAs-based superconductors: growth, structure and physical properties.
13.05-14.05 Lunch

Afternoon Session.

Chair: A.Kordyuk

14.05 – 14.40 Alexander Boris. Charge dynamics in multi-band FeAs-based superconductors.
14.40 – 15.10 Lev Vinnikov. Vortex Structure in Superconducting Iron Pnictide Single Crystals.
15.10 – 15.45 Ruslan Prozorov. Electromagnetic Response in Iron-based Pnictide Superconductors.
15.45 – 16.00 Coffee break

Chair: A.Koshelev

16.10 – 16.45 Makariy Tanatar. Anisotropy of the normal and superconducting states in iron arsenide Ba(Fe_1-x Co_x )₂ As₂

Generation and Detection of Terahertz Waves by Superconducting Structures - II

16.45 – 17.20 Marat Gaifullin. External synchronisation Josephson oscillations in intrinsic stack of junctions under microwave irradiation and c-axis magnetic field.
17.20 – 17.55 Ulrich Welp. Terahertz radiation from intrinsic Josephson junctions
19.00 Barbecue party

October 16, Friday,

Morning Session:

Quantum Phase Transitions

Chair: M.Feigelman

09.00 – 09.30 Maoz Ovadia. The superconductor-insulator transition: is there a new insulating state?
09.30 – 10.05 Claude Chapelier. STM on highly disordered superconducting films.
10.05 – 10.40 Tatiana Baturina. Vortex-Charge duality in two-dimensions: Superconducting and Superinsulating transitions in ultrathin critically disordered TiN films
10.40 – 10.55 Coffee break

Chair: P.Batail

10.55 – 11.30 Mikhail Feigel'man. Pseudogapped superconductivity near mobility edge.
11.30 – 12.05 Vladimir Pudalov. Metal-Insulator Transition in 2D: recent progress.

Organic Metals and Superconductors – IV

12.05 – 12.30 Vladimir Zverev. Crystal structure, T-P phase diagram and magnetotransport properties of new organic metal k-(BETS)₂Mn(N(CN)₂)₃
12.30 – 12.50 Roman Morgunov. Charge Order-Disorder Phase Transition in a'-(BEDT-TTF)₂IBr₂ detected by EPR
12.50 – 13.10 Dmitrii Konarev. The design of ionic complexes of fullerenes manifesting high conductivity and magnetic interactions
13.10 Closing of the Conference.