Principles of Quantum Matter
A Symposium to Celebrate Charles Kane’s 60th Birthday
August 9-11, 2023
Glandt Forum
Singh Center for Nanotechnology
3205 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Conference Organizers
Liang Fu (MIT)
Ben Wieder (Université Paris-Saclay/MIT)
Liang Wu (Penn)
Arjun Yodh (Penn)
Sponsors:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter
School of Arts and Science
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact:
Ben Wieder (Université Paris-Saclay/MIT)
Speakers
B. Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University | Philip W. Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Martin Claassen, University of Pennsylvania | Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado Boulder |
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland | Andrew M. Rappe, University of Pennsylvania |
Matthew Fisher, University of California Santa Barbara | Nicholas Read, Yale University |
Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Jie Shan, Cornell University |
Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science |
M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University | Jeffery Teo, University of Virginia |
Moty Heiblum, Weizmann Institute of Science | Senthil Todadri, MIT |
Patrick A. Lee, MIT | Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University |
Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania | Liang Wu, University of Pennsylvania |
Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania | Ali Yazdani, Princeton University |
Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley | Fan Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas |
Schedule
Wednesday, August 9
8:00-8:45 | Breakfast |
8:45-9:00 | Opening Remarks |
9:00-9:30 | Eugene Mele Views from 2N17 |
9:30-10:00 | Zahid Hasan Topological Quantum Matter: A new frontier |
10:00-10:30 | Tom Lubensky Odd viscosity and beyond in rotationally driven active matter |
10:30-11:00 | coffee break |
11:00-11:30 | Jie Shan Realization of the Kane-Mele model in semiconductor moiré superlattices |
11:30-noon | Philip Phillips 1/4 is the new 1/2: Emergent Mottness at Quarter filling in the Haldane and KM/BHZ Models |
noon-1:30 | lunch |
1:30-2:00 | Moty Heiblum Anyonic Interference and Braiding in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer |
2:00-2:30 | Eduardo Fradkin Duality, Pairing and Fibonacci in Quantum Hall Fluids |
2:30-3:00 | Jeffrey Teo Minimal unimodular integer quantum Hall states and their fractional descendants |
3:00-3:30 | coffee break |
3:30-4:00 | Leo Radzihovsky Helical states of frustrated magnets |
4:00-4:30 | Liang Wu Novel nonlinear optical responses in 2D PT-symmetric antiferromagnets |
Thursday, August 10
8:15-9:00 | Breakfast |
9:00-9:30 | Patrick Lee Strongly driven superconductors: what the data tell us about the pseudogap in Cuprates |
9:30-10:00 | Ali Yazdani Visualizing many body states in magical flat bands |
10:00-10:30 | Ady Stern Topology and disorder - an alliance on average |
10:30-11:00 | coffee break |
11:00-11:30 | Nicholas Read Structure of short-range spin glasses |
11:30-12:00 | Andrei Bernevig Integer polynomial factorization and the many body spectrum of all famous physics models |
12:00-1:30 | lunch |
1:30-2:00 | Sankar Das Sarma Charlie Kane, Proximity Superconductivity, and Majorana Zero Modes |
2:00-2:30 | Ashvin Vishwanath Superconductors as Dual Topological Insulators |
2:30-3:00 | Fan Zhang Penn Insulators in Quasi-1D Materials |
3:00-3:30 | coffee break |
3:30-4:00 | Andrew Rappe Connecting topological physics with optoelectronics and surface chemistry |
4:00-4:30 | Matthew Fisher Decoding and Steering Monitored Quantum Dynamics |
4:30 | Group photo at Singh Center |
Friday, August 11
8:15-9:00 | Breakfast |
9:00-9:30 | Joel Moore Twenty-nine years following trails blazed by Charles Kane |
9:30-10:00 | Martin Claassen Quantum-Geometric Interactions of Light and Strongly Correlated |
10:00-10:15 | coffee break |
10:15-10:45 | Steven Girvin Adventures in Phase Space: Quantum Signal Processing for Universal Control of Oscillators |
10:45-11:15 | Senthil Todadri (Non-) Fermi liquids through a topological lens |
11:30 | Lunch |
Travel Information
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