Electron Hydrodynamics in Crystalline Solids: Microscopic Origins, Mesoscopic Size Effects, and Macroscopic Observables George Varnavides (Zoom link available on request) Abstract: Despite the continued scaling down of transistors since the invention of the integrated circuit over seventy years ago, recent trends have deviated from Moore's predictions, due to fundamental physical limitations including heat dissipation. With [...]

Harvard's Quantum Initiative (HQI) is hosting a Colloquia Series which features HQI-affiliated postdocs currently seeking faculty positions! Please join these virtual seminars! See attached flyer. These seminars will include talks by three postdocs in the NarangLab! Yaxian Wang (January 13) Dominik Juraschek (January 27) Kade Head-Marsden (February 10) Zoom info for the weekly Colloquia Series: Zoom Meeting ID: [...]

Talks by group members and Prineha at the APS March Meeting: B15.00012 Ab initio Study and Search of Chalcogenide-oxide Interfaces C20.00011 First principles approaches to strong light-matter coupling E04.00002 Probing Hydrodynamic Materials from First Principles F11.00006 Simulation Driven Search for Promising Quantum Defects in Diamond G70.00283 First principles theory of ground and excited states of correlated light-matter systems in the non-perturbative [...]