Symposium in Memory of Professor Emmanuel Rashba
The Institute of Advanced Studies - The Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics
14:00 - Gathering
14:15 - Opening Remarks and Greetings
14:20 - Personal Remarksת Mrs. Julia Rashba-Step
14:30 - Scientific Perspectives on Emanuel Rashba’s Legacy, Prof. Ora Entin and Prof. Alex Efros
14:40 - Plenary Lecture, Prof. Allan MacDonald
15:30 - Light Refreshments and Poster Session
15:50 - Rashba Excellence Award Ceremony, Recipient: Mr. Omer Yaniv - Ph.D. student
16;00 - Students Talks
Omer Yaniv - Phonon-Polariton Hall Effect
Shiri Gvishi - Resolving the Phase of a Topological State via Interferometric Photoemission
Shilo Avraham - Reentrant Superconductivity in a Josephson Junction Array
16:15 - Closing
Plenary Lecture:
Prof. Allan MacDonald,
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
RASHBA SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING, EXCITON-CONDENSATION AND CAVITY-TUNED FERROMAGNETISM
I first met Emmanuel Rashba during a visit to the University of Utah during the 1990’s when we were both working on the physics of two-dimensional electrons in a strong magnetic field – the quantum Hall regime. Rashba’s style of doing physics and of being a physicist was to make progress on the strength of simple truths, clarified by friendly discussion and deep understanding.
Meetings with Rashba and other scientists who had left the Soviet Union around that time had a big impact on me personally and on all condensed matter physics in the United States.
My talk today will focus on the ferromagnetic states of the many-electron systems in the quantum Hall regime that we were both thinking about at that time, on a connection between ferromagnetism and exciton condensation that Rashba recognized, and on the central role of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in optical-cavity control of ferromagnetism in the quantum Hall regime, which has been demonstrated recently.
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