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22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society · Contents About the CD ROM / Copyright Information ..... 1 About the CD ROM Contents Partners and Sponsors ............................................ 2 The accompanying CD ROM contains the one-page abstracts presented at the 22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (CMD-22) held at the Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy from 25 to 29 August 2008. For General Information copyright information, please see the Copyright Notice (page 2). All abstracts are in .pdf format. Welcome ................................................... 2 Conference Topics ................................... 3 - 4 Instructions Poster Sessions ......................................... 4 - 5 Software requirements: A web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or similar) Speakers’ Information ............................ 5 A .pdf viewer (tested with Adobe Acrobat). This software can be downloaded at no cost from: EPS-14 ...................................................... 5 http://www.adobe.com Poster Prize .............................................. 5 Starting the CD ROM Massimo Sancrotti Awards .................... 5 The CD ROM has an auto run facility for Windows, and will start when inserted into your computer. Technical Digest ...................................... 5 Should you wish to access the contents of the CD ROM other than through the auto run On-Site Facilities ..................................... 5 programme, access the CD ROM and click on the start.html icon. Lunches .................................................... 6 Navigation Registration Information ........................ 6 Navigating the contents of this CD ROM is similar to navigating a web page. The back and forward arrows are active. Excursion Programme ............................ 6 Conference Location ............................... 7 Conference Management ........................ 7 Rome ......................................................... 7 - 9 Conference Committees .......................................... 10 nd The papers on the accompanying CD ROM comprise the digest of the 22 General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (CMD-22) Programme at a Glance .......................................... 11 - 13 held at the Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy. They reflect the authors’ opinion and are published as presented and without any change in the interest of timely dissemination. Their inclusion in this publication does not necessarily constitute endorsement by the Plenary and Invited Talks at a Glance .................. 14 - 15 editors, the European Physical Society. Technical Sessions © 2008 by the European Physical Society. All rights reserved. Monday ..................................................... 16 - 23 Tuesday .................................................... 24 - 51 Copyright and Reprint permissions: Abstracting is permitted with credit to the source. Libraries are permitted to print copies beyond the limits of copyright in the US and in Wednesday ............................................... 52 - 61 Europe, where applicable, for private use by patrons of articles in this volume. Fair use for Thursday .................................................. 62 - 89 scholarly purposes is also permitted. For other copying, reprint or publication permission, write to European Physical Society, B.P. 2136, 6 rue des Frères Lumière, F-68060 Friday ....................................................... 90 - 97 Mulhouse cedex, France. Authors’ Index ........................................................ 98 - 105 Europhysics Conference Abstracts Volume 32F, ISBN: 2-914771-54-1 1 22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society · General Information CMD-22 is organized in cooperation with 22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society General 25 - 29 August 2008, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy EPS Condensed Matter Division (CMD), Mulhouse, F WELCOME to Rome and to the 22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (CMD-22)! http://cmd.epsdivisions.org/ http://www.eps.org/ The conference provides a forum for presentations of research work across the full range of condensed matter physics to a wide international audience. It is held every two years since the very first one held in Antwerp in 1980. The format of the meeting will be similar to the most recent ones in the series, held in Prague 2004 and in Dresden 2006. Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, IT th The conference will also host a special session for the 14 General Conference of the European Physical Society to be held on Wednesday afternoon, 27 August 2008. http://www.uniroma1.it/ The conference programme will include plenary talks, oral sessions including invited and contributed presentations with up to seven parallel sessions, and ample time for poster sessions. The conference should offer space for discussing both novel and established Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, IT topics, including selected important areas of condensed matter physics. The conference is dedicated to the memory of the late Co-chair Massimo Sancrotti, Università Cattolica di Brescia, and Laboratorio TASC INFM-CNR Trieste, Italy. The whole programme will focus on the following sessions: • Semiconductor Physics http://www.sns.it/ • Surfaces, Interfaces, and Low-Dimensional Physics • Magnetism • Superconductivity and Highly-Correlated Systems • Liquids, Disordered and Off-Equilibrium Systems • Polymer Physics • Biological Physics and Life Sciences CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Institute for the Physics of • Materials • Methods for Cultural Heritage and Vacuum Science Matter), IT • Physics of Socio-Economic and Complex Systems INFM - Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (CNR - National Research Council), IT The conference will also host an exhibition involving international companies. We hope that you will enjoy the unique beauty of Rome, the programme, and the opportunity to spend time with colleagues from around the globe. http://www.cnr.it/ http://www.infm.it/ Sincerely, Lucia Sorba, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa and CNR-INFM, Italy Chair Europhysics Letters Carlo Mariani, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, and CNR-INFM, Italy Eoin O'Reilly, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland and Chair of the EPS Condensed https://www.epletters.net/ Matter Division Co-Chairs http://www.epljournal.org/ 2 22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society · General Information Conference Topics transitions (magnetocaloric systems, magnetic phase transitions, phase separation) 7. Structured Materials (ultra-thin films and surface effects, multi-layer films and Semiconductor Physics superlattices, patterned films, nanoparticles and self-assembling) 1. Quantum dot and wires 8. Applications and interdisciplinary topics, magnetic applications in medicine, biomagnetic 2. Photonic crystals applications, novel applications 3. Spin-controlled transport 4. Bose-Einstein condensation in semiconductors Superconductivity and Highly-Correlated Systems General 5. THz interaction 1. Heavy fermions 6. Semiconductor Lasers 2. Quantum critical phenomena 7. Theory of electronic structures 3. High Tc superconductivity 8. Transport and optics in high magnetic fields /QHE 4. New materials with strong correlations 9. Ultra-fast phenomena 5. Quantum spin systems 10. Quantum optics in condensed matter 6. Theoretical methods for many body computation 11. Quantum transport for quantum information 7. Spectroscopy: very low and very high energy 12. Condensed matter with cold atoms 8. Electronic properties under extreme conditions 13. Carbon/diamond 9. Dynamical properties from time-resolved experiments 14. Graphene: electronic properties and transport 10. Graphene 15. Graphene: structural stability and dynamics (shared with Materials) 16. Graphite for fusion reactors Liquids, Disordered and Off-Equilibrium Systems 1. Simple liquids Surface, Interface and Low-dimensional Physics 2. Molecular Liquids 1. Electronic properties of surfaces and low dimensional systems 3. Liquid Metals 2. Magnetic properties of surfaces and nanostructures 4. Ionic liquids 3. Surface Structure and Dynamics 5. Quantum Fluids 4. Self-assembled organic layers 6. Water and aqueous solutions 5. Spontaneous nanopattering at surfaces 7. Hydrogen bonded liquids 6. Small particles and clusters 8. Liquid crystals 7. Atomic manipulation 9. Polymers, polyelectrolytes, and biopolymers 8. Tribology and friction 10. Colloids 9. Liquid-solid an liquid-gas interfaces 11. Films, foams, and surfactants 10. Oxide surfaces 12. Confined liquids and interfacial phenomena 11. Organic interfaces and heterostructures 13. Supercooled liquids, glass transition, glasses, and gels 12. Adsorption and reaction on metal and oxide surfaces 14. Off-equilibrium and aging systems: fluctuations and effective temperature 13. Adsorption on semiconductors 15. Phase transitions, nucleation and heterogeneities 14. Biological-inorganic interfaces 16. Complex rheology 15. Graphene: electronic properties 17. Biological and biomimetic fluids 16. Nanowires 18. Spin glasses 19. Optimisation problems Magnetism 20. Classical and Quantum glassiness 1. Magneto-electronics and spintronics (GMR, TMR, Hall effect, magneto-impedance, spin 21. Granular materials