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

Dr. Moussa Ngom from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Condensed matter & biological physics seminar

TITLE: TBD ABSTRACT: TBD Host: Collin Broholm Piers Coleman (Rutgers)