Condensed Matter Theory Seminars@MIT

Tuesday 12:00 PM, 4-331 MIT.

The condensed matter theory seminar series gives speakers the chance to present topics in condensed matter physics to the MIT community. Speakers are welcome to talk about their own research, completed or in progress. Speakers are encouraged to present topics of current interest in a pedagogical manner.

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Schedule

Spring 2020

Tuesday, February 11, 12:00 PM. Glenn Wagner, Oxford University
(Informal Seminar) Transport in bilayer graphene near charge neutrality: Which scattering mechanisms are important? [abstract]

Tuesday, February 18, 12:00 PM. Eslam Kahalf, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Correlated insulators in twisted bilayer graphene at integer fillings [abstract]

Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 PM. Ching-Kai Chiu, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, Beijing (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Scalable Majorana vortex modes in iron-based superconductors [abstract]

Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 PM. Slava Rychkov, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (Please note special day and location: Cosman room 6C-442)
(Informal Seminar)
Understanding O(N) symmetry for non-integer N via Deligne categories. [abstract]

Tuesday, March 3, 12:00 PM. Jiyin Wang, QuTech - Delft, Netherlands
(Informal Seminar) Parity-controlled Josephson effect on InSb-Al island  [abstract]

Tuesday, March 10, 12:00 PM. Nat Tantivasadakarn, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Jordan-Wigner Dualities for Translation-Invariant Hamiltonians in Any Dimension: Emergent Fractons that are Fermions [abstract]

Tuesday, April 7, 12:00 PM. Jonah Kudler-Flam, University of Chicago (Please note the seminar will be broadcast via Zoom)
(Informal Seminar) Universality of Entanglement Dynamics [abstract]

Tuesday, April 21, 12:00 PM. Grigory Tarnopolskiy, Harvard University (Please note the seminar will be broadcast via Zoom)
(Informal Seminar) Soft modes in the complex SYK model [abstract]

Tuesday, April 28, 12:00 PM. Ethan Lake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Broadcast via Zoom)
(Informal Seminar) Journal Club meeting [abstract]

Fall 2019

Thursday, September 12, 12:00 PM. William Berdanier, University of California - Berkeley (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Universality in non-equilibrium boundary-driven systems [abstract]

Tuesday, September 17, 12:00 PM. Jong Yeon Lee, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Signatures of a Deconfined Phase Transition on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice: Applications to Quantum Critical SrCu2(BO3)2 [abstract]

Wednesday, September 18, 3:30 PM. David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University (Please note special day and time )
(Informal Seminar)
Can you make a magnet out of carbon? [abstract]

Wednesday, September 25, 3:00 PM. Egor Kiselev, Karlsruher Institute of Technology (Please note special day and time )
(Informal Seminar)
Lévy flights and hydrodynamic superdiffusion on the Dirac cone of graphene [abstract]

Tuesday, October 1, 12:00 PM. Zhen Bi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Journal Club meeting [abstract]

Friday, October 4, 2:00 PM. Zhicheng Yang, Joint Quantum Institute (Please note special day and time )
(Informal Seminar)
Path to building quantum spin liquids and topological qubits within existing quantum hardware [abstract]

Tuesday, October 8, 12:00 PM. Hiro Ishizuka, University of Tokyo
(Informal Seminar) Photo-induced spin current in magnetic insulators by shift current mechanism [abstract]

Tuesday, October 15, 12:00 PM. Siddhardh C. Morampudi, Boston University
(Informal Seminar) Spectroscopy of spinons in Coulomb quantum spin liquids [abstract]

Thursday, October 17, 12:00 PM. Philip Crowley, Boston University (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Topological classes of quantum dynamics in quasi-periodically driven systems [abstract]

Tuesday, October 22, 12:00 PM. Yichen Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Renyi entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems [abstract]

Tuesday, October 29, 12:00 PM. Meng Cheng, Yale University
(Informal Seminar) Exploring 3D fracton topological order: gauged layers construction and entanglement renormalization [abstract]

Tuesday, November 5, 12:00 PM. Wen Wei Ho, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Phenomenology and mechanisms of Quantum many-body scarring [abstract]

Tuesday, November 12, 12:00 PM. Han Yan, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
(Informal Seminar) Rank–2 U(1) spin liquid on the breathing pyrochlore lattice [abstract]

Tuesday, November 26, 12:00 PM. Yu-An Chen, Caltech
(Informal Seminar) Exact bosonization in higher dimensions and the duality between supercohomology fermionic SPT and higher-group bosonic SPT phases [abstract]

Tuesday, December 3, 12:00 PM. Dmitri Abanin, University of Geneva
(Informal Seminar) Quantum ergodicity breaking beyond many-body localization [abstract]

Thursday, December 5, 11:00 AM. Trithep Devakul, Princeton University (Please note special day and time )
(Informal Seminar)
Subsystem symmetry-protected topological phases in two and three dimensions [abstract]

Thursday, December 5, 2:00 PM. Brian Skinner, Ohio State University (Please note special day and time )
(Informal Seminar)
New dynamical transitions: in Majorana fermions and in job applications [abstract]

 



Spring 2019

Tuesday, February 26, 12:00 PM. Edwin Huang, Stanford University
(Informal Seminar) Quantum Monte Carlo studies of normal state properties of the Hubbard model [abstract]

Wednesday, February 27, 2:00 PM. Tibor Rakovsky, Technical University - Munich (Please note special day and time )
(Informal Seminar)
Signatures of information scrambling in the dynamics of the entanglement spectrum[abstract]

Friday, March 1, 12:00 PM. Timothy Hsieh, Perimeter Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Variational Approach for Quantum Simulation [abstract]

Tuesday, March 12, 12:00 PM. Badih Assaf, University of Notre-Dame
(Informal Seminar) Tunable topological crystalline insulators [abstract]

Tuesday, March 12, 2:00 PM. Georgios Katsaros, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria (Please note special time )
(Informal Seminar) Ge hut wires: a material platform good for hosting spin and topological qubits? [abstract]

Wednesday, March 13, 12:00 PM. Michael Levin, University of Chicago (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Bridging the gap between lattice models and TQFT [abstract]

Tuesday, April 2, 12:00 PM. Masahiko Yamada, University of Tokyo and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Quantum valence bond ice theory for proton-driven quantum spin-dipole liquids [abstract]

Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 PM. Dominic Else, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Some applications of the classification of topological crystalline phases [abstract]

Friday, April 19, 12:00 PM. Xie Chen, California Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Foliated Fracton Order [abstract]

Tuesday, May 7, 12:00 PM. Patrick Folkes, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
(Informal Seminar) Investigation of topological characteristics of Pb.5Sn.5Te and alpha Sn [abstract]

Thursday, May 16, 3:00 PM. Zheng-Cheng Gu, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Anomalous symmetry protected topological states in interacting fermion systems [abstract]

Monday, May 20, 2:00 PM. Constantin Schrade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Spin-valley density wave in moir\'e materials [abstract]

Tuesday, May 28, 12:00 PM. Jonas Berx, KU Leuven, Belgium
(Informal Seminar) BLUES function method in an iterative procedure [abstract]

Thursday, June 13, 12:00 PM. Shubhayu Chatterjee, University of California-Berkeley (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Symmetry breaking and skyrmionic transport in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene on h-BN [abstract]

Tuesday, June 11, 1:00 PM. Cécile Repellin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Exact diagonalization

Tuesday, June 18, 12:00 PM. Dervis Can Vural, University of Notre Dame
(Informal Seminar) Evolution of community structure in dynamic fluids [abstract]



Fall 2018

Tuesday, September 11, 12:00 PM. Anshul Kogar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Journal Club meeting [abstract]

Tuesday, September 18, 12:00 PM. Alfred Zong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Single-pulse manipulation of charge density waves in 1 T-TaS2 [abstract]

Tuesday, September 25, 12:00 PM. Veronika Sunko, University of St. Andrews, UK and Max Planck Institute
(Informal Seminar) Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures [abstract]

Friday, September 28, 12:00 PM. Vladimir Narovlansky, Weizmann Institute of Science (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) The renormalization group of quenched disorder [abstract]

Tuesday, October 2, 12:00 PM. Gregory Fiete, University of Texas at Austin
(Informal Seminar) Topological magnon bands and effective Hamiltonians for periodically driven systems [abstract]

Friday, October 5, 12:00 PM. Aris Alexandradinata, Yale University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Modern semiclassical theory of magnetic quantum oscillations and Landau-level degeneracies [abstract]

Tuesday, October 16, 12:00 PM. Patrick Ledwith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Symmetry protected long-lived excitations and tomographic dynamics in 2D electron fluids [abstract]

Wednesday, October 17, 2:00 PM. Brian Skinner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Percolative Phase Transition in the Dynamics of Quantum Entanglement [abstract]

Wednesday, October 24, 12:00 PM. Zhicheng Yang, Boston University (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Hierarchical Majoranas in a Programmable Nanowire Network [abstract]

Friday, October 26, 12:00 PM. Matteo Ippoliti, Princeton University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Geometry of fractional quantum Hall and composite Fermi liquid states [abstract]

Monday, October 29, 2:30 PM Simon Lieu, Imperial College, London (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Non-Hermitian symmetry-protected topological phases [abstract]

Tuesday, October 30, 12:00 PM. Brian Swingle, University of Maryland
(Informal Seminar) Scrambling, Locality, and Quantum Fluctuations [abstract]

Friday, November 2, 12:00 PM. Ruben Verresen, Max Planck Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Symmetry-protected topological edge modes surviving quantum criticality [abstract]

Tuesday, November 6, 12:00 PM. Liujun Zou, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Field-induced neutral Fermi surface and QCD$_3$-Chern-Simons quantum criticalities in Kitaev materials [abstract]

Wednesday, November 7, 12:00 PM. Yang Zhang, Max Planck Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Nonlinear electrical and optical response in Weyl semimetals [abstract]

Tuesday, November 27, 12:00 PM. Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute of Science
(Informal Seminar) Progress on Quantum Critical Metals [abstract]

Tuesday, December 4, 12:00 PM. Hassan Shapourian, University of Chicago
(Informal Seminar) Topological invariants for symmetry protected topological phases of fermions [abstract]

Summer 2018

Wednesday, June 20, 12:00 PM. Eylon Persky, Bar-Ilan University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Imaging current distributions near the metal to insulator transition in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 [abstract]

Monday, August 20, 12:00 PM. Yang Qi, Fudan University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Real-space classification of bosonic space-group SPT states [abstract]


Spring 2018

Friday, January 12, 12:00 PM. Junwei Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Self-learning Monte Carlo Method and cumulative update [abstract]

Tuesday, January 16, 11:00 AM. Tian Liang, Stanford University (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) Anomalous Transport Properties in Topological Phases of Matter [abstract]

Wednesday, January 31, 11:00 AM. Zi Yang Meng, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Please note special day, time and room, Low 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Itinerant quantum criticality, deconfined quantum critical point, Duality and all that [abstract]

Tuesday, February 6, 12:00 PM. Noah Fanqi Yuan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Gapless Phase with Partial Fermi Surface in Superconductors with Spin-Orbit Coupling under Zeeman Field [abstract]

Tuesday, February 13, 12:00 PM. Cécile Repellin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Numerical investigation of gapped edge states in fractional quantum Hall-superconductor heterostructures [abstract]

Wednesday, February 14, 12:00 PM. Itamar Kimchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Valence Bond Entanglement in Random Quantum Magnets [abstract]

Tuesday, February 20, 12:00 PM. Chenjie Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Quantum anomalies of time-reversal and mirror-reflection symmetries in topological orders [abstract]

Friday, March 2, 12:00 PM. Matthias Punk, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Exact solution of a quantum dimer model for topological metals [abstract]

Wednesday, March 14, 12:00 PM. Yizhi You, Princeton University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Subsystem symmetry protected topological order and twisted Fracton theory [abstract]

Thursday, March 15, 1:00 PM. Michael Pretko, University of Colorado, Boulder (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Fracton-Elasticity Duality [abstract]

Tuesday, March 20, 12:00 PM. Constantin Schrade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Majorana Superconducting Qubits [abstract]

Friday, March 23, 12:00 PM. Dam Thanh Son, University of Chicago (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) An algebraic approach to fractional quantum Hall effect [abstract]

Tuesday, March 27, 12:00 PM. Yi-Zhuang You, Harvard University and UC San Diego
(Informal Seminar) Dynamical Signature of Fractionalization at the Deconfined Quantum Critical Point [abstract]

Tuesday, April 3, 12:00 PM. Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
(Informal Seminar) Loop Models, Modular Invariance, and Three Dimensional Bosonization [abstract]

Friday, April 6, 2:00 PM. Noah Fanqi Yuan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Model for metal-insulator transition and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene [abstract]

Tuesday, April 10, 12:00 PM. Liujun Zou, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Moire is different: Mott insulating behavior and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene [abstract]

Friday, April 13, 12:00 PM. Oles Shtanko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Stability of Disordered Floquet Topological Phases [abstract]

Tuesday, April 17, 12:00 PM. Xueda Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Floquet conformal field theory [abstract]

Friday, April 27, 12:00 PM. Shingo Yonezawa, Kyoto University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Nematic superconductivity in intercalated Bi2Se3 systems [abstract]

Tuesday, May 8, 12:00 PM. Douglas Stanford, Institute for Advanced Study
(Informal Seminar) Late time random matrix behavior in SYK: a tactical retreat from the black hole information problem [abstract]

Tuesday, May 15, 12:00 PM. Cyprian Lewandowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Photoexcitation Cascade and Quantum-Relativistic Jets in Graphene [abstract]

Summer 2018

Friday, June 8, 12:00 PM. Zheng-Yu Weng, Tsinghua University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Hidden spin currents in doped Mott antiferromagnets [abstract]

Fall 2017

Tuesday, September 5, 12:00 PM. Guo-qing Zheng, Okayama University and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(Informal Seminar) Topological superconducting states revealed by NMR -- CuxBi2Se3 and (K,Rb)2Cr3As3-- [abstract]

Tuesday, September 12, 12:00 PM. Xueda Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Entanglement hamiltonian evolution during thermalization in conformal field theory [abstract]

Tuesday, September 19, 12:00 PM. Ethan Lake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Fermion condensation and super pivotal categories [abstract]

Tuesday, September 26, 12:00 PM. Cenke Xu, University of California, Santa Barbara
(Informal Seminar) Duality, effective theory, and multicritical points around the deconfined quantum critical point [abstract]

Wednesday, September 27, 12:00 PM. Zhenghan Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Simulation of quantum field theories by quantum computers [abstract]

Friday, September 29, 12:00 PM. Toshikaze Kariyado, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, and National Institute for Materials Science, Japan (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Z_N Berry phase as a symmetry protected topological index: application to SU(N) symmetric models [abstract]

Tuesday, October 3, 3:00 PM. Rajamani Narayanan, Florida International University (Please note special start time)
(Informal Seminar) Gauge fields coupled to massless fermions in three dimensions [abstract]

Tuesday, October 17, 12:00 PM. Luka Trifunovic, Freie University of Berlin
(Informal Seminar) Reflection symmetric second-order topological insulators and superconductors [abstract]

Tuesday, October 24, 12:00 PM. Adrian Po, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Solving symmetry constraints and diagnosing band topology for all 1,651 magnetic space groups [abstract]

Wednesday, October 25, 12:00 PM. Robert-Jan Slager, Max Planck Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Crystalline symmetries and topological band theory: from defects to classifying combinatorics. [abstract]

Tuesday, October 31, 12:00 PM. Gil Young Cho, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
(Informal Seminar) Topological phases and Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem [abstract]

Wednesday, November 1, 3:00 PM. Masaki Oshikawa, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Many-Body Polarization and Its Applications [abstract]

Tuesday, November 7, 12:00 PM. Yahui Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Journal club on neural networks

Tuesday, November 14, 12:00 PM. Alex Thomson, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Fermionic spinon theory of square lattice spin liquids near the Néel state [abstract]

Tuesday, November 21, 12:00 PM. Masahiko Yamada, ISSP, University of Tokyo
(Informal Seminar) Crystalline spin-orbital liquids with an emergent SU(4) symmetry [abstract]

Tuesday, November 28, 12:15 PM. Andrey Gromov, University of Chicago
(Informal Seminar) Bimetric theory of Fractional Quantum Hall States [abstract]

Wednesday, November 29, 12:00 PM. Yuxuan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Topological phase transitions in multicomponent superconductors [abstract]

Tuesday, December 5, 12:00 PM. Yilin Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences [abstract]
(Informal Seminar) Noncollinear magnetic structure and multipolar order in Eu2Ir2O7

Friday, December 8, 1:15 PM. Haoyu Guo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Superballistic conduction and viscous electronics [abstract]

Tuesday, December 12, 12:00 PM. Zhen Bi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Instabilities of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model [abstract]

Monday, December 18, 12:00 PM. Jie Wang, Princeton University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Berry Phase in Composite-Fermi-Liquid States [abstract]

Thursday, December 21, 12:00 PM. Mikhail Zvonarev, LPTMS, CNRS, Orsay, France (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Propagation of an impurity through a quantum medium [abstract]

Summer 2017

Wednesday, August 9, 11:00 AM. Moty Heiblum, Weizmann Institute of Science (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Quantization of Heat Flow (and its breakdown) in Fractional Quantum Hall States [abstract]

Thursday, August 31, 2:00 PM. Binghai Yan,Weizmann Institute of Science (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Berry curvature dipole in Weyl semimetal materials [abstract]

Spring 2017

Thursday, January 12, 12:00 PM. Daniel Bulmash, Stanford University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Quantum Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields in Semimetallic Films and Wires [abstract]

Tuesday, February 7, 12:00 PM. Sagar Vijay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Fermionic Quantum Error Correction and Robust Schemes for Information Processing with Majorana Zero Modes [abstract]

Tuesday, February 14, 12:00 PM. Xuan Wei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Exploring localization and out-of-time ordered correlations in nuclear spin chains [abstract]

Tuesday, February 14, 3:00 PM. Constantin Schrade, University of Basel - Switzerland (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) Majorana Tunnel Junctions [abstract]

Tuesday, February 21, 12:00 PM. Zhaoxi Xiong, Harvard University [abstract]
(Informal Seminar) Minimalist approach to the classification of symmetry protected topological phases

Friday, February 24, 12:00 PM. Takehito Yokoyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Please note special day and room, Low 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Odd-frequency superconductivity in superconducting junctions [abstract]

Tuesday, February 28, 12:00 PM. Hong Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) The second law of thermodynamics from unitarity and symmetry [abstract]

Tuesday, March 7, 12:00 PM. Adrian Po, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Chiral Floquet Phases of Many-body Localized Bosons [abstract]

Friday, March 10, 11:00 AM. Haruki Watanabe, University of Tokyo (Please note special day, time and room, Low 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Three applications of a double commutator [abstract]

Wednesday, March 22, 12:00 PM. Bruno Amorim, IST-Lisbon University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Vertical transport in graphene/h-BN/graphene structures[abstract]

Friday, March 24, 12:00 PM. Michael Pretko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Emergent Gravity in Fracton Systems [abstract]

Tuesday, March 28, 12:00 PM. Jasper van Wezel, University of Amsterdam
(Informal Seminar) Topological classification of crystalline insulators through band structure combinatorics[abstract]

Thursday, March 30, 12:00 PM. Han Ma, University of Colorado-Boulder (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Fracton topological order via coupled layer construction [abstract]

Friday, March 31, 12:00 PM. Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Random tensor networks and holographic coherent states [abstract]

Monday, April 3, 2:00 PM. Eslam Khalif, Max Planck Institute (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Anderson localization in the presence of topologically protected channels [abstract]

Tuesday, April 4, 12:00 PM. Meng Cheng, Yale University
(Informal Seminar) Time-reversal and reflection symmetry in (2+1)-dimensional topological phases [abstract]

Tuesday, April 11, 12:00 PM. Hamed Pakatchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Quantum Hall States, Binary Invariants and Regular Graphs [abstract]

Wednesday, April 12, 2:00 PM. Mark Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Universal quasi-steady states in periodically-driven many-body systems [abstract]

Friday, April 14, 12:00 PM. Dominic Else, UC Santa Barbara (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Gauging spatial symmetries and the classification of topological crystalline phases [abstract]

Tuesday, April 18, 12:00 PM. Fabian Grusdt, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Strong coupling theory of holes in an antiferromagnet and applications to ultracold atoms [abstract]

Thursday, April 27, 1:00 PM. Takashi Asano, Kyoto University (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Recent Progress in Photonic crystals [abstract]

Friday, April 28, 12:00 PM. Debanjan Chowdhury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Scrambling and chaos in quantum many-body systems [abstract]

Tuesday, May 2, 12:00 PM. Rahul Nandkishore, University of Colorado, Boulder
(Informal Seminar) Weyl Loop Semimetals - a new platform for condensed matter physics [abstract]

Friday, May 5, 12:00 PM. Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute of Science (Please note special day and room, Pappalardo Room 4-349)
(Informal Seminar) What drives weather changes? [abstract]

Tuesday, May 9, 12:00 PM. Inti Sodemann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Quantum Hall ferroelectrics and the momentum space bosonization approach to 2+1 interacting Dirac fermions [abstract]

Friday, May 12, 12:30 PM. Ramis Movassagh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Please note special day and start time)
(Informal Seminar) Supercritical Entanglement: counter-examples to the area law for quantum matter [abstract]

Tuesday, May 16, 12:00 PM. Zheng Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Numerical Study of Quantum Hall Systems with Half-filled Landau Levels: Anisotropy Effect on Moore-Read State & Phase Diagram of 1/2+1/2 Bilayers [abstract]

Friday, May 19, 12:00 PM. Vlad Kozii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day and room, Low 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Ferromagnetic transition in a one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled metal and its mapping to a new critical point in classical smectic liquid crystals [abstract]

Tuesday, May 23, 12:00 PM. Liujun Zou, Harvard University [abstract]
(Informal Seminar) Symmetry enriched U(1) quantum spin liquids

Thursday, May 25, 12:00 PM. Zheng-Cheng Gu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Towards a complete classification of symmetry protected topological phases for interacting fermions in three dimensions and a general group supercohomology theory [abstract]

Tuesday, May 30, 12:00 PM. Angel Rivas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(Informal Seminar) Symmetry-Protected Heat Currents and Dissipative Topological Physics [abstract]

Wednesday, May 31, 11:00 AM
. Suchitra Sebastian, Cambridge University-UK (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Quantum oscillations and the pairing energy scale of the cuprate high Tc superconductors

Friday, June 2, 12:00 PM. Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Topological superconductivity in Fe-based superconductors [abstract]

Friday, June 9, 2:00 PM. Irina Grigorieva, University of Manchester, UK (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Superconductivity by alkali-metal intercalation: superconducting graphene, phosphorene, and a topological insulator [abstract]


Fall 2016

Monday, August 29, 12:00 PM. Ekin Ilseven, ETH Zurich (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Hydrodynamics of Charge and Energy Transport [abstract]

Tuesday, September 13, 12:00 PM. Chong Wang, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) A duality web in 2+1 dimensions [abstract]

Tuesday, September 20, 12:00 PM. Inti Sodemann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) A composite fermion duality for the electron exciton condensate[abstract]

Tuesday, September 27, 12:00 PM. Vedika Khemani, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Driven Phases of Quantum Matter [abstract]

Wednesday, September 28, 12:00 PM. Oscar Viyuela, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Finite Temperature SP Topological Order & Long-range Topological Superconductivity[abstract]

Tuesday, October 4, 12:00 PM. Sylvain Capponi, Université Paul Sabatier
(Informal Seminar) Phase diagram of interacting spinless fermions on the honeycomb lattice [abstract]

Tuesday, October 4, 3:00 PM. Sergey Syzranov, University of Maryland (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) High-Dimensional Disorder-Driven Phenomena in Weyl Semimetals, Semiconductors and Related Systems [abstract]

Wednesday, October 12, 12:00 PM. Yoni Schattner, Weizmann Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Quantum criticality in metals - results from quantum Monte-Carlo simulations[abstract]

Thursday, October 13, 12:00 PM. Stephan Plugge, University of Düsseldorf (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Majorana Box Qubits & Surface Code [abstract]

Tuesday, October 25, 12:00 PM. Arbel Haim, Weizmann Institute
(Informal Seminar) Current aspects of topological superconductivity [abstract]

Monday, October 31, 3:00 PM. K.T. Law, Hong University of Science and Technology (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Ising superconductivity and Majorana fermions in superconducting transition metal dichalcogenides [abstract]

Tuesday, November 1, 12:00 PM. Jonathan Ruhman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Odd-parity superconductivity near inversion breaking quantum critical point in one dimension [abstract]

Tuesday, November 8, 12:00 PM. Yin-Chen He, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Kagome spin liquid, Symmetry protected topological phase and Deconfined criticality [abstract]

Thursday, November 10, 12:00 PM. Anna Keselman, Weizmann Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Topological superconductors in multiple flavors: gapped and gapless, in wires and 2DEGs [abstract]

Wednesday, November 16, 12:00 PM. Xueda Wen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Please note special day and room - Low 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Entanglement negativity in topologically ordered phases [abstract]

Friday, November 18, 2:00 PM. Boris Spivak, University of Washington (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Chiral Anomaly and Classical Negative Magnetoresistance of Weyl Metal [abstract]

Tuesday, November 22, 12:00 PM. Yingfei Gu, Stanford University
(Informal Seminar) Local criticality, diffusion and chaos in generalized Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models [abstract]

Wednesday, November 23, 12:00 PM. Shenghan Jiang, Boston College (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Classification and simulation of quantum phases by symmetric tensor networks [abstract]

Tuesday, November 29, 12:00 PM. Donna Sheng, California State University Northridge
(Informal Seminar) Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and Quantum Phase Transition for 1/2 Bilayer System [abstract]

Wednesday, November 30, 12:00 PM. Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University (Please note special day and room - Low 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Let there be topological superconductors [abstract]

Tuesday, December 6, 12:00 PM. Yi-Zhuang You, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Bilayer Graphene as a Platform for Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological States [abstract]

Wednesday, December 7, 12:00 PM. Thomas Iadecola, Boston University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Wire constructions of topological phases in three or more dimensions[abstract]

Summer 2016

Tuesday, June 14, 12:00 PM. Pedram Roushan, University of California-Santa Barbara, Google Inc.,
(Informal Seminar) Chiral groundstate currents of interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field [abstract]

Monday, June 27, 12:00 PM. Valery Pokrovsky, Texas A&M University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Bose-Einstein condensation and strange superfluidity of magnons [abstract]

Tuesday, July 19, 12:00 PM. Carmel Rotschild, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Photoluminescence: An optical heat pump for harvesting thermal losses in photovoltaics [abstract]

Thursday, July 28, 12:00 PM. Jaime Merino, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) The Mott transition and the pseudogap phase in organic and cuprate superconductors: a quantum cluster theory perspective [abstract]

Spring 2016

Tuesday, January 19, 12:30 PM. Lucile Savary, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) Quantum loop states in spin-orbital models on the honeycomb and hyperhoneycomb lattices[abstract]

Wednesday, February 17, 12:00 PM. Zhiqiang Li, Magnet Lab-Florida State University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Disentangling Surface and Bulk States of a Topological Crystalline Insulator by Optics[abstract]

Tuesday, March 1, 12:00 PM. Dennis Huang, Harvard University
(Informal Seminar) Imaging atomic defects and quasiparticle interference in superconducting FeSe/SrTiO3 [abstract]

Tuesday, March 8, 12:00 PM. Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University
(Informal Seminar) Multiorbitals, spin orbit coupling and novel magnetism [abstract]

Tuesday, March 15, 11:00AM. Benjamin Hopkins, Australian National University (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) Optical Scattering in Coupled Nanoparticle Systems [abstract]

Wednesday, March 16, 1:00 PM. Anton Andreev, University of Washington (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Hydrodynamic description of electron transport in high mobility semiconductor nanostructures[abstract]

Thursday, March 17, 11:00 AM. Anton Akhmerov, Delft University-Netherlands (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Physics of Majorana nanowires beyond 1D models [abstract]

Tuesday, March 22, 12:00 PM. Phillip Dumitrescu, University of California - Berkeley
(Informal Seminar) Superconductivity and nematic fluctuations in a model of FeSe monolayers: A determinant quantum Monte Carlo study[abstract]

Tuesday, March 29, 12:00 PM. Panagiotis Kotetes, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
(Informal Seminar) Signatures of Majorana fermions in Shiba chains with or without spin-orbit interaction [abstract]

Tuesday, April 5, 12:00 PM. Brian Skinner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Problems in Human Motion Planning [abstract]

Thursday, April 7, 11:00AM. Vincenzo Vitelli, Leiden University (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Mechanical topological insulators: from metamaterials to active liquids [abstract]

Tuesday, April 11, 12:00 PM. Hiroki Isobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Long-range electron interactions in Weyl and Dirac materials [abstract]

Tuesday, April 19, 12:00 PM. Samuel Lederer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) High Tc superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid behavior near a nematic quantum critical point: a Monte Carlo study [abstract]

Monday, April 25, 4:00PM. Satoru Nakatsuji, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Experimental search for novel topological phases in correlated electron systems [abstract]

Tuesday, April 26, 12:00 PM. Sagar Vijay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) A New Kind of Topological Quantum Order, Generalized Lattice Gauge Theory and Duality [abstract]

Friday, April 29, 12:00 PM. Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Why solid people may need fluid mechanics [abstract]

Tuesday, May 10, 12:00 PM. Jonathan Ruhman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) The mechanism for superconductivity in slightly doped strontium titanate [abstract]

Tuesday, May 24, 12:30 PM. Adam Nahum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Quantum entanglement growth under noisy unitary dynamics [abstract]

Fall 2015

Tuesday, September 15, 12:00 PM. Brian Skinner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Nonlinear screening of charged impurities in topological materials[abstract]

Tuesday, September 22, 12:00 PM. Jonathan Ruhman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Topological ground-state degeneracy in an isolated one-dimensional gas of spinless Fermions[abstract]

Tuesday, September 29, 12:00 PM. Yuval Baum, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
(Informal Seminar) Current at a distance and resonant transparency in Weyl semi-metals[abstract]

Tuesday, October 5, 12:00 PM. Samuel Lederer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Nematic quantum criticality in a 2+1-dimensional metal [abstract]

Tuesday, October 13, 12:00 PM. Haruki Watanbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Predicting topological semimetals and spin liquid candidates from the electron filling and space groups symmetry [abstract]

Tuesday, October 20, 12:00 PM. Itamar Kimchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Bose insulators on the half-filled honeycomb: short-ranged entanglement protected by the lattice [abstract]

Tuesday, October 27, 12:00 PM. Brian Swingle, Stanford University
(Informal Seminar) Complexity Equals Action [abstract]

Monday, November 2, 3:00 PM. Zohar Nussinov, Washington University in St. Louis (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Glassy dynamics as a quantum effect [abstract]

Tuesday, November 3, 12:00 PM. Yin-Chen He, Max Planck Institute
(Informal Seminar) Chiral spin liquid in kagome antiferromagnets and its physical origin as a gauged U(1) SPT phase [abstract]

Wednesday, November 4, 12:00 PM. Andrew Lucas, Havard University (Please note special day, and room Low-6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Hydrodynamic transport in the Dirac fluid in graphene [abstract]

Thursday, November 5, 11:00 AM. Debanjan Chowdhury, Harvard University (Please note special day, time and room Low-6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Fractionalization and broken symmetries in the underdoped cuprates [abstract]

Friday, November 13, 12:00 PM. Jing-Yuan Chen, University of Chicago (Please note special day and room Low-6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Berry Fermi Liquid Theory [abstract]

Tuesday, November 17, 11:00 AM. Chao-Ming Jian, Stanford University (Please note special time and room Low-6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Long-Rang Mutual Information and Topological Uncertainty Principle [abstract]

Tuesday, November 24, 12:00 PM. Xiao Hu, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA)
(Informal Seminar) Evolution of Density of States and Spin Textures of Majorana Bound States [abstract]

Wednesday, December 2, 12:00 PM. Xiao Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Please note special day and room Low-6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Many-body Localization Transition in Rokhsar-Kivelson-type wave functions [abstract]

Friday, December 4, 11:00 AM. Professor Yoichi Ando, University of Cologne (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Topological insulators and superconductors[abstract]

Tuesday, December 8, 12:00 PM. Inna Vishik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Informal Seminar) Ultrafast dynamics in heavy fermions and electron doped cuprates [abstract]

Summer 2015

Tuesday, August 11, 12:00 PM. Subhro Bhattacharjee, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems

(Informal Seminar) Lattice Model for Bosonic Integer Quantum Hall Effect and Beyonds [abstract]

Spring 2015

Tuesday, February 17, 5:00 PM. Itai Epstein, Tel Aviv University (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) Surface Plasmons as Fundamental Wave Phenomena [abstract]

Wednesday, February 18, 3:00 PM. Dirk K. Morr, University of Illinois at Chicago (Please note special day, time and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Magnetically Mediated Cooper Pairing in Heavy Fermion Superconductors [abstract]

Tuesday, February 24, 12:00 PM. Horacio M. Pastawski, Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (IFEG) and Facultad de Matemática Astronomía y Física (FaMAF), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

(Informal Seminar) Loschmidt Echoes, an experimental and theoretical tool to study Quantum Chaos, Quantum Dynamical Phase Transitions and Many Body  Localization[abstract]

Wednesday, February 25, 3:00 PM. Takehito Yokoyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology(Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Spintronics with topological insulators[abstract]

Tuesday, March 10, 12:00 PM. Carmine Ortix, IFW Dresden (Germany) and University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
(Informal Seminar) Strongly anisotropic ballistic magnetoresistance in compact three-dimensional semiconducting nanoarchitectures[abstract]

Tuesday, March 10, 2:00 PM. Li Lu, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences(Please note time)
(Informal Seminar) Observation of truncated quantum interference patterns on rf-SQUIDs constructed on Bi2Te3 surface[abstract]

Tuesday, March 17, 12:00 PM. Masaki Oshikawa, University of Tokyo
(Informal Seminar) Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids[abstract]

Wednesday, March 18, 12:00 PM. Yi Li, Princeton University(Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Non-perturbative Results for Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Multi-orbital Systems on Square and Cubic Lattices[abstract]

Tuesday, April 14, 12:00 PM. Miles Stoudenmire, Perimeter Institute
(Informal Seminar) Uncovering the Fibonacci Phase in Parafermion Systems [abstract]

Tuesday, April 21, 12:00 PM. Sho Yaida, Duke University
(Informal Seminar) Panoramic correlations in glassy systems [abstract]

Wednesday, April 29, 12:00 PM. Yang Qi, Perimeter Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Classifying and detecting crystal symmetry fractionalization in a 2D Z_2 spin liquid [abstract]

Tuesday, May 5, 12:00 PM. Sagar Vijay, MIT
(Informal Seminar) A New Kind of Topological Quantum Order: A Dimensional Hierarchy of Quasiparticles Built from Stationary Excitation [abstract]

Thursday, May 7, 10:30 AM. Rivka Bekenstein, Technion (Please note special day, time and room)
(Informal Seminar) General Relativistic Phenomena in Optical Settings [abstract]

Tuesday, May 12, 12:00 PM. George Jackeli, University of Stuttgart and MPI-FKF
(Informal Seminar) Spin-orbit coupling induced novel states in Mott insulators [abstract]

 

Fall 2014

September 16, 12:00 PM. Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton University
(Informal Seminar) Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics [abstract]

September 17, 12:00 PM. Donna Sheng, California State University, Northridge (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Chiral spin liquid and the gapless liquid state in kagome spin 1/2 system [abstract]

September 23, 12:00 PM. Lucile Savary, MIT
(Informal Seminar) A new type of quantum criticality in the pyrochlore iridates[abstract]

September 30, 12:00 PM. Michael Hermele, University of Colorado, Boulder
(Informal Seminar) Fractionalization of crystal momentum and other quantum numbers[abstract]

October 7, 12:00 PM. Inti Sodemann, MIT (Please note special room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Broken SU(4) Symmetry and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene [abstract]

October 14, 12:00 PM. Cenke Xu, University of California, Santa Barbara
(Informal Seminar)Quantum phase transitions around interacting topological insulators and topological superconductors[abstract]

October 21, 12:00 PM. Soonwon Choi, Harvard University (Please note special room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Quantum computation using many-body localization[abstract]

October 22, 12:00 PM. Zheng-Cheng Gu, Perimeter Institute (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Vortex-line condensation in three dimensions: A physical mechanism of bosonic topological insulators[abstract]

October 28, 12:00 PM. Barry Bradlyn, Yale University
(Informal Seminar)Viscous and thermal transport in topological phases[abstract]

October 31, 12:00 PM. Itamar Kimchi, University of California, Berkeley (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Quantum spin liquids and magnetic models for the new three-dimensional honeycomb-like iridates[abstract]

November 4, 12:00 PM. Zheng-Yu Weng, Tsinghua University (Please note special room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Quasiparticle collapsing and charge modulation as manifestations of Mott physics [abstract]

November 5, 12:00 PM. Samuel Lederer, Stanford University (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Enhancement of superconductivity near a nematic quantum critical point [abstract]

November 6, 12:00 PM. Scott Geraedts, California Institute of Technology (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Numerical Study of a Bosonic Topological Insulator in Three Dimensions[abstract]

November 17, 3:00 PM. Falko Pientka, University of Berlin (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Majorana bound states in magnetic impurity chains and shortcuts to braiding Majoranas [abstract]

November 18, 12:00 PM. Debanjan Chowdhury, Harvard University (Please note special room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Resolving a conundrum in P-doped Ba-122 : a quantum-critical superconductor?[abstract]

November 18, 3:00 PM. Haruki Watanabe,University of California, Berkeley (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) When do interactions with Goldstone bosons lead to non-Fermi liquids?[abstract]

November 19, 12:00 PM. Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Topological and strong correlation physics in the px/py-orbital bands of the honeycomb lattice – from solid states to optical lattices[abstract]

November 21, 12:00 PM. Maresa Rieder, Freie Universität, Berlin (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Disorder-induced phase transitions in multichannel Majorana wires[abstract]

November 25, 12:00 PM. Adolfo Grushin, Max Planck Institute (Please note special room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Three remarkable aspects of Weyl semi-metals[abstract]

December 9, 12:00 PM. Gabor Halasz , Oxford University
(Informal Seminar) Doping a topological quantum spin liquid: slow holes in the Kitaev honeycomb model [abstract]

December 10, 12:00 PM. Layla Hormonzi, MIT (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Condensation and multi-layer fractional quantum Hall states[abstract]

December 15, 12:00 PM. Jonathan Ruhman, Weizmann Institute of Science (Please note special day and room 6C-333)
(Informal Seminar) Interacting Rashba Fermi gases, from Majorana zero-modes to non-Fermi liquids[abstract]

December 16, 12:00 PM. Tom Iadecola, Boston University
(Informal Seminar)Accessing topological order in fractionalized liquids with gapped edges[abstract]

Spring 2014

June 10, 12:00 PM. Eun-Gook Moon, UCSB
(Informal Seminar) Exotic phases in spin-orbit coupled correlated electron systems [abstract]

May 20, 12:00 PM. Claudio Chamon, Boston University
(Informal Seminar) Emergent irreversibility and entanglement spectrum statistics[abstract]

April 29, 12:00 PM. Lukasz Cincio, Perimeter Institute
(Informal Seminar) Chiral Spin Liquid and Emergent Anyons in a Kagome Lattice Mott Insulator [abstract]

April 25, 12:00 PM. Yang-Le Wu, Princeton (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Study of Non-Abelian Quasiholes Using Matrix Product States [abstract]

April 24, 1:00 PM. Michael Levin, University of Chicago (Please note special day and time)
(Informal Seminar) Braiding statistics and symmetry-protected topological phases [abstract]

April 16, 12:00 PM. Evelyn Tang, MIT (Please note special day)
(Informal Seminar) Strain-induced Helical Flat Band and Interface Superconductivity in Topological Crystalline Insulators [abstract]

April 7, 12:00 PM. Boris Spivak, Universtiy of Washington
(Special Seminar) Theory of Unconventional Disordered Superconductors [abstract]

February 25, 12:00 PM. Jung Hoon Han, Sungkyunkwan Universtiy
(Special Seminar) Emergence of Orbital Chirality in Multi-orbital Bands [abstract]

February 6, 2:00 PM. Jinfeng Jia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
(Special Seminar) Majorana mode in the vortex core and single-layer FeSe on SrTiO3 with a superconducting Tc above 100 [abstract]

January 28, 12:00 PM. Evert van Nieuwenburg, ETH Zurich
(InformalSeminar) Mixed State Topology in a non-Integrable Spin-chain [abstract]

 

Fall 2013

December 3, 12:00 PM. Jens Bardarson, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Quantum Matter
(Special Seminar) Topological Insulator Nanowires — from Kramers, via Berry, to Majorana [abstract]

November 25, 2:30 PM. Xi Dai, Institute of Physics, Beijing (Please note special day/time)
(Special Seminar) Topological Phases in Mix Valence Compounds [abstract]

November 20, 2:00 PM. Jeffrey Teo, UIUC (Please note special day/time)
(Special Seminar) Classifying Topological Crystalline Superconductors and Majorana Bound States at Lattice Defects [abstract]

November 19, 12:00 PM. Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster (This seminar will be held in Room 6C-442)
(Special Seminar) Low Energy Effective Theories for non-Fermi Liquids [abstract]

November 15, 12:00 PM. Sho Yaida, MIT
(Informal Seminar) Emergent Length Scales in Supercooled Liquids[abstract]

November 8, 12:00 PM. Hiroki Isobe, University of Tokyo and MIT
(Informal Seminar) Renormalization Group Analysis of Dirac Electrons in Solids[abstract]

November 5, 12:00 PM. Sri Raghu, Stanford (Please note special day)
(Special Seminar) Non-Fermi Liquids at Quantum Critical Points [abstract]

October 25, 12:00 PM. Anton Akhmerov, Delft
(Informal Seminar) Kwant: A Software Package for Quantum Transport [abstract]

October 22, 12:00 PM. Silviu Pufu, MIT
(Informal Seminar) Monopoles and Confinement in 3d Gauge Theories [abstract]

October 18, 2:00 PM. Curt von Keyserlingk, Oxford (Please note special time)
(Informal Seminar) Exactly Solvlable Models of Topological Matter in 3D [abstract]

October 11, 12:00 PM. Pavel Ioselevich , Landau Institute
(Informal Seminar) Tunneling into a Majorana Fermion [abstract]

October 8, 12:00 PM. Shunji Matsuura, McGill University 
(Informal Seminar) Grand-canonical Renyi Entropy[abstract]

October 4, 12:00 PM. Cenke Xu, UC Santa Barbara 
(Informal Seminar) Field theory and various properties of symmetry protected topological phases[abstract]

October 1, 12:00 PM. Jeongwan Haah, MIT (This seminar will be held in Room 6C-442) 
(Informal Seminar) An exotic spin model from quantum codes [abstract]

September 24, 4:00 PM. Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley (Please note special day/time) 
(Special Seminar) Non Fermi Liquid in Metallic Skyrmion Crystals

September 13, 4:00 PM. Juven Wang, MIT and Perimeter Institute (Please note special day/time) 
(Informal Seminar) From Topological Order to a Lattice non-Perturbative Definition of Chiral Fermion/Gauge Theory [abstract]

Spring 2013

April 3, 3:30 PM. Xiong-Jun Liu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and MIT  
(Informal Seminar) Realization of Spin Orbit Coupling and Majorana Fermions in a 2D Optical Lattice [abstract]

April 10, 3:30 PM. Junwei Liu, Tsinghua University and MIT  
(Informal Seminar) 2D and 3D Topological Crystalline Insulators in IV-VI Semiconductors [abstract]

April 12, 12:00 noon. Jorn Verderbos, Leibniz Institute for Solid-State and Materials Research, Dresden 
(Special Seminar) Fractional Quantum Hall States in Strongly Correlated Multi-orbital Systems [abstract]

April 17, 4:00 PM. Drew Potter, MIT  
(Informal Seminar) Edge Ferromagnetism from Majorana Flatbands–Application to High-Tc Cuprates [abstract]

April 23, 2:00 PM Dmitry Pikulin, Leiden University  (Please note special day/time)
(Informal Seminar) Superconducting Junctions on the Edgeof the Quantum Spin Hall Insulator [abstract]

May 1, 3:30 PM. Takashi Oka, University of Tokyo
(Special Seminar) Floquet Theory of Photo-induced Topological Phase Transitions [abstract]

May 3, 3:30 PM. Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute (This seminar will be held in Room 6C-442)
(Special Seminar) Don't Go with the Flow: The Sign of the Response in Superconductors [abstract]

May 8, 2:00 PM. Chen Fang, Purdue (Please note special time)
(Special Seminar) Point Group Symmetries in Topological Insulators and Superconductors [abstract]

May 15, 3:30 PM. Jay Sau, Harvard
(Special Seminar) The Search for Topologically Degenerate Majorana Modes in Semiconductor/Superconductor Interfaces [abstract]

May 16, 1:30 PM. Ziyang Meng, Louisiana State University
(Special Seminar) Dynamical Cluster Quantum Monte Carlo Studies on Strongly Correlate Electron Systems [abstract]

May 22, 3:30 PM. Hermann Freire, Federal University of Goiás (Brazil) and MIT
(Special Seminar) Breakdown of Fermi liquid behavior near the hot spots in a two-dimensional model: A two-loop renormalization group analysis [abstract]

May 23, Hong-Chen Jiang, UC Santa Barbara
(Special Seminar) Topological Order and Entanglement Entropy [abstract]

May 29, 3:30 PM. Tim Hsieh, MIT
(Special Seminar) Bulk Entanglement Spectrum Reveals Quantum Criticality within a Topological State [abstract]

June 5, 3:30 PM. Rebecca Flint, MIT
(Special Seminar) Metal-Insulator Transitions: Cd2Os2O7 and the iridates [abstract]


 

Fall 2010

Coming soon!

Spring 2010

March 3, 4:00 PM. Dmitri Abanin, Princeton.  
(Seminar) Adatom Ordering and Tunable Band Gap in Graphene [abstract]

March 30. Rahul Nandkishore, MIT.  
(Seminar) Non-Fermi Liquid behaviour in bilayer graphene [abstract]

April 13. Tarun Grover, MIT.  
(Seminar) κ-ET insulators and a nematic spin-liquid [abstract]

May 11. Beni Yoshida, MIT.  
(Seminar) Studying topological order through quantum coding theory [abstract]

May 18. Kuang-Ting Chen, MIT.  
(Seminar) Effective action of topological insulators [abstract]


Fall 2009

Regular meetings: Wednesday 4:30 PM, 4-331 MIT.

October 21. Chung-Hou Chung, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan.  
(Seminar) Electronic transport through quantum dots in the Kondo regime [abstract]

October 28. Moshe Goldstein, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.  
(Seminar) Population switching and charge sensing in quantum dots: A case for a quantum phase transition [abstract]

November 11. Rahul Nandkishore, MIT.  
(Seminar) Competing orders in bilayer graphene at charge neutrality [abstract]

November 18. Abolhassan Vaezi, MIT.  
(Seminar) Studying Mott transition in the Hubbard model within slave boson method [abstract]

November 25. Maissam Barkeshli, MIT. 
(Seminar) Continuous Topological Phase Transitions in Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States [abstract]

December 2, 12:00 noon. Zohar Nussinov, Washington University in St. Louis.  
(Seminar) Topological orders and duality mappings via symmetry and algebraic considerations [abstract]

December 17, 4:00 PM (Note the change). Meagan Thompson, MIT.  
(Seminar) Towards Topological Quantum Computation? — Knotting and Fusing Flux Tubes [abstract]

December 18, 3:30 PM (Note the change). Wing-Ho Ko, MIT.  
(Seminar) Perturbing the kagome lattice spin-liquid state: Raman scattering, magnetic field, and doping. [abstract]


Summer 2009

August 4, 12:15 PM. Lih King Lim, University Utrecht, Netherlands.  
(Seminar) Cold Atoms in 2D Optical Lattices under Staggered Rotation [abstract]


Spring 2009

Regular meetings: Tuesday 12:15 PM, 4-331 MIT.

February 12, 1:30 PM. Ying Ran, U C Berkeley. 
(Seminar) Helical Metal Inside a Topological Band Insulator [abstract]

March 3, 11:15 PM. Anton Akhmerov, Leiden University. 
(Seminar) How to send current through a neutral mode [abstract]

March 3, 12:30 PM. Yusuke Nishida, MIT. 
(Seminar) Unitary Fermi gas in the epsilon expansion [abstract]

March 10. Samuel Bieri, ETH Lausanne, Switzerland.  
(Seminar) Spectral asymmetries in resonating-valence-bond states for cuprate superconductors [abstract]

March 17. Abolhassan Vaezi, MIT. 
(Seminar) Slave boson approach to the Hubbard Model [abstract]

April 7. Maissam Barkeshli, MIT. 
(Seminar) Towards a theory of topological phases in quantum Hall systems: the pattern of zeros approach [abstract]

April 21. Brian Swingle, MIT. 
(Seminar) Picturing Entanglement [abstract]

May 5. Zheng-Yu Weng, Tsinghua University. 
(Seminar) Spin-roton excitations in the cuprate superconductors [abstract]


Fall 2008

Regular meetings: Wednesday noon, 4-331 MIT.

October 15 Florian Kämpfer, MIT. 
(Seminar) Low-energy effective field theory investigation of lightly doped antiferromagnets [abstract]

October 22 Wing-Ho Ko, MIT. 
(Journal Club) Functional Renormalization Group Study on Iron Pnictides [reference]

October 29 ZhengCheng Gu, MIT. 
(Seminar) Matrix Product States and Tensor Product States: A quantum information perspective [abstract]

November 5 Adilet Imambekov, Yale. 
(Seminar) Universal theory of nonlinear Luttinger liquids [abstract]

November 12 Brian Swingle, MIT. 
(Journal Club) Stability of the U(1) spin liquid with spinon Fermi surface in 2+1 dimensions [reference]

November 19 Hong Yao, Stanford. 
(Seminar) Spin liquids from exactly solvable 2D quantum spin models [abstract]

December 3 Saeed Saremi, MIT. 
(Seminar) Competition between the Kondo screening and magnetic ordering in the honeycomb lattice [abstract]


Fall 2007

September 11 Tarun Grover, MIT. 
Spin-nematics and Dimerization in 2D spin systems [abstract]

September 18 David Eichenberger, University of Fribourg . 
Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in the two-dimensional Hubbard model: a variational study [abstract]

September 25 Dmitry Abanin, MIT . 
Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene p-n Junctions [abstract]

October 02 David Pekker, Harvard University . 
Phase slip avalanches in the superflow of $^4$He through an array of nanosize apertures [abstract]

October 09 Kittiwit Matan, MIT . 
Neutron scattering studies of the spin correlations in the frustrated kagome lattice antiferromagnet [abstract]


 

Spring 2007

January 24 Ying Ran, MIT. 
Spin liquid on Kagome lattice [abstract]

February 7 Zheng-Cheng Gu, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University. 
Charge dynamics in a doped Mott insulator [abstract]

April 11 Adrian Del Maestro, Harvard. 
Thermoelectric transport in the vicinity of a superconductor-metal quantum phase transition in nanowires

April 18 Michael Hermele, MIT. 
TBA

April 25 Mark Rudner, MIT. 
Current-Induced Cooling of Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots [abstract]

May 1 Dmitri Abanin, MIT. 
Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in Graphene [abstract]

May 8 Christian Schunck, CUA/MIT. 
Pairing and Superfluidity in a Strongly-Interacting Imbalanced Fermi Gas [abstract]

May 15 Shinsei Ryu, KITP. 
Quantum transport of non-interacting 2D Dirac fermions [abstract]

May 29 Markus Mueller, Harvard University. 
Quantum electron glasses and electron assisted hopping [abstract]

June 5 Predrag Nikolic, Harvard University. 
Universal phase diagram of interacting quantum liquids near the unitarity limit [abstract]

June 12 Mohammad Hafezi, Harvard University. 
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Optical Lattices [abstract]

June 19 [time changed: 12 noon] Arindam Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science. 
Magnetism in a tunable Kondo-lattice in semiconductor-based two-dimensional electron systems [abstract]

DATE CHANGE: July 2 (Monday) [time changed: 1:30 pm] Babak H. Seradjeh, UBC. 
Electron fractionalization in condensed matter systems with weak interactions and time-reversal symmetry [abstract]


 

Fall 2006

September 20 Jinwu Ye, The Pennsylvania State University. 
Ginsburg-Landau theory of supersolid [abstract]

September 27 no seminar.

October 4 no seminar.

October 11 Jacob Taylor, MIT. 
Quantum control of coupled spins in a mesoscopic environment [abstract]

October 18 no seminar.

October 25 Ying Ran, MIT. 
Spectral weight dichotomy as an intrinsic property of t-t'-t''-J model [abstract]

November 8 Chang-Yu Hou, Boston University. 
Electron fractionalization in two-dimensional graphene-like structures [abstract]

November 29 Adilet Imambekov, Harvard. 
Interference of fluctuating condensates [abstract]

December 6 George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 
Gossamer condensates and spin orbit localization in f-electron materials [abstract]
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 12pm Room 12-132


 

Spring 2006

February 1 Sung-Sik Lee, MIT. 
Fractionalization in a strongly correlated many-body system; Emergent gauge theory in exciton bose condensate [abstract]

February 22 Pavel Kraikivski, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces 
Polymer manipulation and motility on substrates [abstract]

March 1 Prof. Zheng-Yu Weng,Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University  
Nature of upper and lower pseudogap phases [abstract]

March 8 Predrag Nikolic, Harvard 
Effective Action for Vortex Dynamics in Clean d-wave Superconductors [abstract]

March 22 Anton Burkov, Harvard 
Superfluids, supersolids and Mott insulators on the triangular lattice [abstract]

April 12 Olivia White, MIT 
Growing Length Scale(s) and Spin Glass Ground State(s) [abstract]

April 19 Elena Gubankova, MIT 
Stability conditions and Fermi surface topologies in a superconductor [abstract]

April 26 Anders Sandvik, Boston University 
Valence-bond-solid phases and quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional antiferromagnets [abstract]

May 3 Peter Richard Crompton, Hamburg University  
The Mermin-Wagner theorem and quantum criticality in physical quasi-1d systems [abstract]

May 17 Amihay Hanany, MIT  
Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories [abstract]


 

Fall 2005

September 14 Shan-Wen Tsai, Boston University. 
Renormalization-group approach to interacting fermions coupled to phonons [abstract]

September 21 Marin Soljacic, MIT. 
Novel devices based on photonic band gap microcavities [abstract]

September 28 Ryan Lee Barnett, Harvard University. 
Coexistence of gapless excitations and commensurate charge-density wave in the 2H-transition metal dichalcogenides. [abstract]

October 5 Kevin Beach, Boston University. 
Simulating quantum systems in the valence bond basis [abstract]

October 12 Su-Peng Kou, MIT. 
Mutual Chern-Simons theory for Z2 topological order and doped Mott insulator [abstract]

October 19 Jonathan Keeling, MIT. 
BEC-BCS crossover in a system of microcavity polaritons [abstract]

October 26 Tai-Kai Ng, HKUST. 
The pseudo-gap state as a Fermi liquid superconductor with F_1 -> -1 [abstract]

November 2 Dima Abanin, MIT. 
Fermi-Edge Resonance and Tunneling in Nonequilibrium Electron Gas [abstract]

November 9 Peter Bermel, MIT. 
Properties of radiating pointlike sources in cylindrical omnidirectionally reflecting waveguides [abstract]

November 16 Ludwig Mathey, Harvard. 
Noise Correlations in one-dimensional ultra-cold atom systems [abstract]

Special Date: Tuesday, November 29 Andreas Glatz, Argonne National Lab. 
Non-adiabatic AC-Dynamics of Disorderd Elastic Systems [abstract]

November 30 Arkady Shekhter, The Weizmann Institute of Science. 
Spintronics without magnets: Spin-optics and Diffuse emission [abstract]

December 7 Michael Hermele, MIT. 
Fate of the Josephson effect in thin-film superconductors [abstract]


 

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