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Spring 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
Van Der Waals Topological Magnets and Superconductors
Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Kansas University
Monday, February 5, 2024 (4138, 10:15 am)
Near-field Photovoltage Microscopy in the Heavy-Fermion Moiré Twisted Symmetric Trilayer Graphene
Petr Stepanov, Notre Dame University
Monday, February 12, 2024 (VIRTUAL)
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Moty Heiblum, Weizmann Institute
Monday, February 19, 2024
Magnetism and heat conduction in rare-earth insulating magnets
Minhyea Lee, CU Boulder
Monday, February 26, 2024
From new materials to new devices: TBG phaser and drive-controlled anomalous hall effect
Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology
Monday, March 18, 2024
Diffusion with anomalous noise
Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Princeton University
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 (1080, 1:30 pm)
Bulk-boundary correspondence in point-gap topological phases
Dr. Masatoshi Sato, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Friday, March 22, 2024 (1080, 1:30 pm)
Many-body scar models from a symmetry perspective
Professor Chen Fang, Institute of Physics at Beijing
Monday, April 1, 2024
High-sensitivity optical measurement of spin-orbit torque via Sagnac MOKE interferometry
Kelly Luo, University of Southern California
Monday, April 15, 2024
Layer-by-layer distribution of electronic wavefunctions in topological materials
Shuolong Yang, University of Chicago
Autumn 2023
Monday, August 28 (Zoom)
Chirality and Non-Hermitian Skin Effect
Penghao Zhu, OSU
Monday, September 11 (In-Person)
Loss of Quasiparticles: from Strange Metals to Flat Bands
Qimiao Si, Rice
Wednesday, September 13 (In-Person)
Emergent Chirality and Conformal Symmetry from a Single Wave Function
Bowen Shi, UCSD
Monday, September 18 (In-Person)
Ultraslow Dynamics, Fragile Fragmentation, and Geometric Group Theory
Ethan Lake, MIT
Thursday, September 21st (In-Person, with the CEM)
Quantum Computing Using Electron Spins in Silicon
Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin
Monday, September 25 (In-Person)
Proper Correlation Measures: The Case with Rényi Mutual Information
Laimei Nie, Purdue
Monday, October 2 (In-Person)
Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, California Institute of Technology
Monday, October 9 (In-Person)
Chiral Andreev Edge States in the Quantum Hall Regime
Gleb Finkelstein, Duke
Monday, October 16 (In-Person, room 4138)
Pseudo-Goldstone Modes and Order-by-Disorder
Jeffrey Rau, Windsor
Monday, October 23 (In-Person, 4-5 PM)
Ergodicity Breaking in Quantum Dynamics
Rahul Nandkishore, Colorado Boulder
Monday, October 30 (rescheduled)
Monday, November 6 (In-Person)
Synthesis and Exploration of New Topological Magnetic Texture in Frustrated Magnets
Takashi Kurumaji, Caltech
Monday, November 13 (In-Person, 4-5 PM)
Engineering Topological Phases with a Superlattice Potential
Jennifer Cano, Stony Brook
Monday, November 20 (TBD)
Monday, November 27 (In-Person)
Local Topological Order and Boundary Algebras
David Penneys, OSU Department of Mathematics
Wednesday, November 29 (In-Person, 1-2 PM)
Inducing Non-Equilibrium Phases in Semiconductors with Time-Periodic Devices
Iliya Esin, Caltech
Monday, December 4 (TBD)
Monday, December 11 (TBD)
Spring 2023
Monday, January 23 (Zoom)
Quantum Spin Liquids : Concept and Realization
Yogesh Singh, IISER
Monday, January 30
Universality classes of thermalization for mesoscopic Floquet systems
Alan Morningstar, Stanford
Monday, February 6
A variational wavefunction of weak Mott insulator and pseudogap metal using ancilla qubits
Yahui Zhang, John Hopkins
Monday, February 13 (Zoom)
Gauge Theory of the Pseudogap Phase in Cuprate Superconductors
Walter Metzner, MPI Dresden
Monday, February 20 (Zoom)
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Subhro Bhattacharya,
Monday, February 27
TBA
Dominic Else, Perimeter Institute
Monday, March 20
Transport of a Quantum Gas through Band Structure Singularities
Charles Brown, Yale
Monday, March 27
TBA
Jonas Karcher, Penn State
Monday, April 3 (Zoom)
TBA
Austin Minnich, Caltech
Monday, April 10
TBA
Yizhuang You, UCSD
Monday, April 17 (Zoom)
TBA
Yichen Huang, Harvard
Monday, April 24
TBA
Ganpathy Murthy, University of Kentucky
Spring 2020
Thursday, January 9 and 10 - SPECIAL SEMINARS
Maciej Maska, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Thursday, January 9 @ 11:30am
"Topological Superconductivity in a Chain of Magnetic Atoms"
Friday, January 10 @ 3:00pm in 4138 PRB - Quantum Information Seminar series
"Learning by Confusion Identification and Characterization of Phase Transitions"
Friday, January 24 @ 11:00am
"Signatures of Topological Ground State Degeneracy in Majorana Islands"
Jukka Vayrynen, MicroSoft
Monday, February 3
"Mathematics of Operator Growth in Quantum Many-body Systems"
Andy Lucas, University of Colorado
Monday, February 10
"Spatially Dispersive Charge Currents in Three Material Contexts"
Zachariah Addison, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, February 17
"Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Weyl Semi-metals"
Anton Burkov, University of Waterloo
Monday, May 4 @ 11:30 - Zoom
"Fractons: A New Type of Particle"
Michael Pretko, University of Colorado, Boulder
Autumn 2019
Monday, September 16
"Disorder and Interaction in Chiral Chains: Life at the Infinite Randomness Fixed Point"
Jonas Karcher, Karlsruhe
Monday, September 23
"Chiral Topological Semimetals: Beyond Weyl Fermions"
Barry Bradlyn, UIUC
Thursday, October 10 @ 11:30a
"Fracton Order: From Quantum Hard Drive to Foliated Manifold"
Xie Chen, CalTech
Tuesday, October 22
"Magnetic Interactions in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides"
Oscar Avalos-Ovando, Ohio University
Spring 2019
Monday January 14
"Surface State Transport in 3D Topological Instulators"
Nadya Mason, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Monday, February 4 CANCELLED
"Upper Bounds on the Superfluid Stiffness and Superconducting Tc: Applications
to Twisted-bilayer Graphene and Ultra-cold Fermi Gases"
Mohit Randeria, The Ohio State University
Monday March 18 in 4138 PRB CANCELLED
"TBA"
Chong Wang, Permeter Insitute
Monday, March 25 @ 1:30 in 4138PRB
"A Universal Operator Growth Hypothesis"
Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley
Monday, April 1 @ 12:00p
"Emergent Mode and Bound States in Single-component Fermionic Systems"
Roger Mong, University of Pittsburgh
Monday, April 15
"Entanglement Signatures of Emergent Dirac Fermions: Kagome Spin Liquid and Quantum
Criticality"
William Witczak-Krempa, University of Montreal
Autumn 2018
Monday, September 24, 1136 PRB
"Synthetic Topological Defects and Synthetic Spaces in Ultracold Atoms"
Qi Zhou
Purdue University
Monday, October 29
"The Global Phase Diagram of 1-D SYK Model"
Xin Dai
The Ohio State University
Monday, November 5
"Sign Structure, Ground State Degeneracy and Spin Currents in Doped Mott Insulator"
Wayne Zheng
The Ohio State University
Tuesday, November 13
"Variational Approach for Quantum Simulation"
Tim Hsieh
Perimeter Institute
Monday, November 19
"Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking from Anyon Condensation"
Corey Jones
The Ohio State University
Monday, December 3
"Higher Order Topological Phases: Quadrupoles, Metameterials and Beyond"
Taylor Hughes
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Monday, December 10
Spring 2018
Monday, April 02
"Deconfined Quantum Critically on the Triangular Lattice"
Alex Rasmussen
UCSB
Monday, March 12
"Machine learning approaches to entangled quantum states"
Xiaopeng Li
Fudan University
Monday, January 22
"Reactive Nanosystems"
Priya Vashishta
University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 21
"Entanglement entropy in non-Hermitian critical spin chains"
Romain Couvreur
ENS Paris-Saclay
Monday, April 9 @ 2:30pm in 4138 Physics Research Building
"Entanglement in Higher-Dimensional Critical Systems"
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute, Canada
Autumn 2017
Monday, September 11 (cancelled until further notice)
Max Metlitski, MIT
Thursday, September 14
"One dimensional time-translation symmetry breaking: from power laws to classical
dynamical systems"
Norman Yao
UC Berkeley
Monday, September 18
"Topology meets geometry in crystalline topology phases"
Michael Hermele
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Monday, September 18
"Pseudo-Landau levels in strained nodal superconductors"
Arun Paramekanti
University of Toronto
Monday, October 30
"New phase transitions and Ising glasses in the quantum quasiperiodic Ising chain"
Anushya Chandra
Boston University
Monday, November 13
"Signatures of gapless boundary modes in Kitaev spin liquids"
Fionna Burnell
Univ. of Minnesota
Spring 2017
Monday, February 06
"Monopole Condensation" Transition out U(1) Quantum Spin Liquid: Application to
Pr2Ir2O7"
Gang Chen
Fudan University, Department of Physics, Shanghai, China
Monday, March 20
"Emergent spacetime supersymmetry in 2D and 3D topological phases"
Hong Yao
Tsinghua University
Monday, March 27
"Far-from-equilibrium superfluidity: quenches and delights"
Maxim Dzero
Kent State University
Monday, April 17
"Quantum phase transtitions in square lattice SU(N) and SO(N) magnets"
Ribhu Kaul
University of Kentucky
Monday, April 18
"Bulk-boundary coorespondence for three dimensional toplogical phases"
Michael Levin
University of Chicago
Autumn 2016
Monday, August 29
"The half-filled Landau level: the case for Dirac composite fermions"
Michael Zalatel
Station Q, Microsoft Research
Monday, October 3
"Five dimensional generalization of the topological Weyl semimetal"
Biao Lian
Stanford University
Monday, October 31
"Potential Inhomogeneities in Presence of Strong Interactions: Birth and Death of Super
Conductors"
Rajdeep Sensarma
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Monday, November 7
"Symmetry constraints and topological phases far from equilibrium"
Romain Vasseur
University of California, Berkeley
Monday, December 5
"Solvable model for a dynamical quantum phase transition from fast to slow scrambling"
Sumilan Banerjee
Weizmann Institute of Science