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 […]
TITLE: Liquid Crystals as Cores and Claddings ABSTRACT: Liquid crystals (LCs) refer to structured mesophases that retain the ability to flow while exhibiting broken symmetries. One simple LC is the […]
TITLE: Quantum geometry: how to picture bound electrons in periodic lattices ABSTRACT: The concept of quantum geometry has been at the forefront of condensed matter physics, starting from how quantized […]
Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Seminar: Salem Al Mosleh (University of Maryland Eastern Shore) Host: Brian Camley
TITLE: Memory and Plasticity in Amorphous Solids ABSTRACT: While we are all familiar with retaining information in a computer or our minds, memory is an essential quality of many more […]
Condensed matter & biological physics seminar: Liang Wu (U Penn) Host: Peter Armitage