<div dir="ltr">Happening now in Physics 3027!!<div><br></div><div>Meeting with the Speaker!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Ming-Feng Ho<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Vivek Aji</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:vivekj@ucr.edu">vivekj@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 11:27 AM<br>Subject: [Physics-grads-announce] Meeting with Colloquium speaker on Thursday Feb 17th<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:physics-grads-announce@lists.ucr.edu">physics-grads-announce@lists.ucr.edu</a>><br>Cc: Peng Wei <<a href="mailto:peng.wei@ucr.edu">peng.wei@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Dear Graduate students,<div><br></div><div>The colloquium speaker this week is Dr. Jairo Velasco Jr. Jairo received his PhD from UCR in 2012. Dr. Peng Wei, the colloquium organizer, has reserved Physics room 3027 from 1-2:30 pm for meeting with graduate students. Please stop by if you would like to chat with him.</div><div><br><div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div>Vivek Aji</div><div>Professor & Graduate Advisor</div><div>Department of Physics & Astronomy</div><div>University of California Riverside</div><div>Riverside CA 92521</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,111,192)">Physics & Astronomy Colloquium</span></b><b><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b> </b></div><p align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"> </p><p align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"> </p><div style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><br></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:26pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;line-height:22px;font-family:"Times New Roman","Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont","Times New Roman_MSFontService",serif;font-variant-ligatures:none!important"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:26pt;line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:26pt;text-align:start;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">Imaging Atomically Thin Quantum Material Devices at the Nanoscale</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><h2 align="center" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;background-color:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:26pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);text-align:start;font-weight:normal"><i>Dr.</i></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:26pt;font-weight:normal"><i><span style="font-size:26pt;text-align:start;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"> <span style="font-variant-ligatures:none">Jairo Velasco Jr.</span></span></i></span><br></h2><h2 align="center" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;background-color:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:26pt;text-align:start">UC Santa Cruz</span></span><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></h2><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b></b></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center;font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><b>Abstract: </b>The harnessing and manipulation of electronic states in quantum materials has the potential to revolutionize computation, sensing, storage, and communications, thus impacting multiple facets of our everyday lives. In this talk I will discuss my group’s recent experiments with Bernal stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) and trilayer graphene (TLG), highly versatile carbon-based quantum materials with electronic properties that are promising for quantum information processing. Specifically, I will focus on two sets of experiments that utilize confinement, nanoscale visualization, and spectroscopy to reveal new properties of the surface states hosted by BLG and TLG electronic devices. In one experiment, we use the scanning tunneling microscope to corral electrons in BLG and then visualize the wavefunctions and quantum interference of the confined electrons. In a second experiment, we use atomically resolved point spectroscopy to measure a giant and tunable magnetic moment for the electrons in TLG devices. The results from these experiments advance fundamental understanding of carbon-based quantum material devices towards their use for quantum information processing.</div><p style="margin-top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