Host: Yi Li Critical Filaments and Fractal-Mediated Superconductivity in Quasiperiodic Twisted Bilayer Graphene The electronic properties of quantum materials depend on the symmetry, topology, and spatial structure of electron wave […]
Title: Neutron studies of SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions–a fruit fly for quantum many body physics Abstract: Neutron spectroscopy offer a unique insight into the emergent quantum phases and entangled dynamics […]
Title: Tensor network simulation in strongly correlated systems: past, present and future Abstract: Tensor network states are new kinds of variational wavefunctions that help us to understand quantum phases […]
Title: “Topological Crystalline Markers for Rotational-Symmetric Insulators” Abstract: “Topological insulators are materials with unique properties, featuring gapless boundary modes despite having a gapped bulk. When translational symmetry is intact, their […]
Title: Entangled photons win the 2022 Nobel Prize! Abstract: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger for experiments with entangled photons. This may […]
Programming quantum materials with terahertz light Quantum materials often harbor emergent orders and phases that reveal themselves at low-energy scales, around 1 to 10 meV. To investigate these collective behaviors, […]
Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Seminar: Matthieu Wyart (EPFL and JHU)
Host: Brian Camley Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Seminar: Nathan Belliveau (UW) Bloomberg Room 462
TITLE: Quantum Many-Body Topology in Mixed States ABSTRACT: The classification of gapped quantum phases in pure states has seen significant progress over the past decades, particularly with the identification of […]
TITLE: Exploring Weird Quasiparticles at the Heart of Quantum Matter (often using Extreme Magnetic Fields) ABSTRACT: Materials science has provided technologies to advance humanity through the millenia. In the wide […]
Title: The unreasonable effectiveness of optical sum-rules in quantum many-body physics Abstract: Inspired by the discovery of a variety of correlated insulators in the moire universe, controlled by interactions […]
TITLE: Is an information viewpoint useful in condensed matter experiment? ABSTRACT: Some of the most significant developments in science concern information, from artificial intelligence to quantum computation and communications. In […]