BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CMSA - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CMSA X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CMSA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T100000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240912T173151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T205732Z UID:10003505-1728637200-1728640800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Dolbeault Virasoro algebra and M5 branes DESCRIPTION:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar \nSpeaker: Brian Williams\, Boston University \nTitle: Dolbeault Virasoro algebra and M5 branes \nAbstract: The worldvolume theory on a stack of M5 branes in M-theory is superconformal. We propose a conjecture that in the holomorphic twist of the theory on a stack of M5 branes an infinite-dimensional enhancement of the (twisted) superconformal algebra is a symmetry. This algebra is closely related to the exceptional infinite-dimensional Lie superalgebra called E(3|6). We show that under the usual AGT correspondence this enhanced algebra degenerates to the Virasoro algebra at a particular central charge. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_101124/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics,Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QFT-and-Physical-Mathematics-10.11.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240907T191849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T134041Z UID:10003467-1726840800-1726846200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Classification and Construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Zhengcheng Gu\, Chinese University of Hong Kong \nTitle: Classification and construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in interacting fermion systems \nAbstract: The construction and classification of crystalline symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems have been intensively studied in the past few years. Crystalline SPT phases are not only of conceptual importance\, but also provide us great opportunities towards experimental realization since space group symmetries naturally exist for any realistic material. In this talk\, I will discuss how to construct and classify crystalline topological superconductors (TSC) and topological insulators (TI) in interacting fermion systems. I will also discuss the relationship between internal symmetry protected SPT phases and crystalline symmetry protected SPT Phases. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_92024/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics,Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-09.20.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240822T161627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T155342Z UID:10003416-1724853600-1724859000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing-Yuan Chen\, Tsinghua University \nTitle: Instanton in Lattice QCD from Higher Categories and Higher Anafunctors\n\n\nAbstract:  Putting continuum QFT (not just TQFT) on the lattice is important for both fundamental understandings and practical numerics. The traditional way of doing so\, based on simple intuitions\, however\, does not admit natural definitions for general topological operators of continuous-valued fields—one such example is the long standing problem in lattice QCD of lacking a natural definition for Yang-Mills instantons.\nIn this talk\, I will explain a more systematic way to relate continuum and lattice QFT\, based on higher categories and higher anafunctors\, so that the topological operators in the continuum can be naturally defined on the lattice. The idea\, though formulated formally\, is physically very intuitive—we want to effectively capture the different possibilities of how a lattice field may interpolate into the continuum\, so the higher categories that are employed to study higher homotopy theory should be naturally involved. Via this formalism\, we resolve the long-standing problem of defining instanton (as well as Chern-Simons term) in lattice Yang-Mills theory\, in terms of multiplicative bundle gerbes. Moreover\, when the fields become discrete\, our formalism can recover the Dijkgraaf-Witten and Turaev-Viro theory\, so we hope this formalism to be a good starting point towards (in the very long term) a comprehensive categorical understanding of QFT that encompass both continuous and discrete degrees of freedom\, applicable both to IR and to UV. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_82824/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-08.28.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240620T133636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240620T133710Z UID:10003393-1718978400-1718983800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Landscape of Tensor Network States Preparable from Measurement DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Rahul Sahay (Harvard)\n\nTitle: Landscape of Tensor Network States Preparable from Measurement\n\nAbstract: Measurements and feedback have emerged as powerful resources for creating many-body quantum states. However\, a detailed understanding of what is possible is restricted to fixed-point representatives of phases of matter. In this talk\, we go beyond this\, characterizing more general patterns of many-body entanglement that can be deterministically created from measurement. In 1D\, a complete framework is developed for the case where a single round of measurements is the only entangling operation. Specifically\, we completely classify the space of 1D preparable quantum states (forming a strict subset of all matrix product states)\, and characterize their physical constraints. In doing so\, we find an intriguing physical trade-off between the richness of the preparable entanglement spectrum and correlation functions\, naturally implying a powerful no-go theorem for preparing certain quantum states. Moreover\, our classification enables one to search for and engineer preparable quantum states with a range of desired correlation lengths and entanglement properties. We conclude by charting out generalizations\, such as higher dimensional examples\, considering multiple rounds of measurements\, and implementing matrix product operators. At a high level\, our work offers a resource-theoretic perspective on preparable quantum entanglement and shows how to systematically create states of matter\, away from their fixed points\, in quantum devices. This is based on two recent works with Ruben Verresen [arXiv:2404.17087; arXiv:2404.16753].\n  URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_62124/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-06.21.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240529T212219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T150758Z UID:10003392-1717770600-1717776000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Phases and Phase Transitions of Spin Chains with Non-invertible Symmetries DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Arkya Chatterjee (MIT) \nTitle: Phases and Phase Transitions of Spin Chains with Non-invertible Symmetries \nAbstract: Non-invertible symmetries are often emergent at low-energies in gapless states of quantum matter. It is useful to construct lattice models that have these as exact symmetries in order to provide a UV-complete setting in which they are well-controlled. To that end\, we propose to study one-dimensional Hamiltonians defined on tensor product Hilbert spaces with finite on-site dimension — referred to as “spin chains” in short — with exact non-invertible symmetries. We focus on two concrete examples: a spin chain with (invertible) S_3 symmetry and one with (non-invertible) Rep(S_3) symmetry. These models are largely analytically tractable and demonstrate all spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) phases of these symmetries. With the aid of tensor network algorithms\, we systematically study the phase transitions between these SSB phases. Both models possess (intrinsically) non-invertible self-duality symmetries\, for which we provide sequential circuit implementations. On the self-dual manifold in parameter space\, we discover an incommensurate gapless phase with an anomalous U(1) symmetry which emanates from lattice translation. \n  URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qmmp_6724/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-06.07.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240517T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240517T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240411T151408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T140248Z UID:10001514-1715941800-1715947200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Love and Naturalness DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Mikhail Ivanov (MIT) \nTitle: Love and Naturalness \nAbstract: Recent progress in gravitational wave astronomy has spurred the development of efficient tools to describe gravitational binary dynamics. One such tool is classical worldline effective field theory (EFT). In the first part of my talk\, I will show how to use this EFT for systematic studies of tidal heating and deformations (Love numbers) of compact objects. I will present a gauge-invariant definition of Love numbers and show how to extract them in a coordinate-independent way from scattering amplitudes of the gravitational Raman process. I will show that the worldline EFT exhibits strong fine-tuning when applied to black holes. This gives rise to a naturalness paradox associated with the vanishing of black hole static Love numbers. In the second part of my talk\, I will present a new symmetry of black holes (Love symmetry) that elegantly resolves this paradox. The Love symmetry is tightly connected to isometries of extremal black holes that appear in many holographic constructions. It also provides a curious example of IR/UV mixing\, which may give insights for other hierarchy problems. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_51724/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-04.26.2024.docx-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240513T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240513T143000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240509T150634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T162010Z UID:10003386-1715607000-1715610600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Improving Mean-Field Theory for Quantum Magnets DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Junyi Zhang\, Johns Hopkins University \nTitle: Improving Mean-Field Theory for Quantum Magnets \nAbstract: Frustrated magnets have garnered significant attention because of their potential to host exotic spin liquids\, while many real material candidates exhibit magnetic orders.  Due to their proximity to spin liquid phases\, the semiclassical descriptions of these magnetic orders often fall short in capturing their intricate quantum behaviors. In this talk\, I will introduce an improved mean-field method\, named density-matrix mean-field theory (DMMFT)\, for these quantum magnets. Using local reduced density matrix\, DMMFT can systematically incorporate the quantum fluctuations beyond conventional mean-field theories. Notably\, it not only quantitatively evaluates the renormalization of order parameters induced by quantum fluctuations but also has the capability to detect the topological order of quantum phases. DMMFT offers an efficient approach to explore phases displaying unconventional quantum orders\, particularly beneficial for investigating frustrated spin systems in high spatial dimensions. \nRef: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06236 URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_51324/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-05.13.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T113000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240507T190917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T195139Z UID:10001518-1715335200-1715340600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:From quantum Hall to Hubbard physics in twisted bilayer graphene DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Eslam Khalaf (Harvard) \nTitle: From quantum Hall to Hubbard physics in twisted bilayer graphene \n\nAbstract: Early on it was noticed that twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has elements in common with two paradigmatic examples of strongly correlated physics: Hubbard physics and quantum Hall physics. On the one hand\, TBG hosts flat topological Landau-level-like bands which realize quantum anomalous Hall states and orbital ferromagnetism under the right conditions. On the other hand\, these bands are characterized by concentrated charge density and show experimental signs of fluctuating magnetism\, and unconventional superconductivty; all characteristics of Hubbard-model-like physics. The emergence of fluctuating moments is particularly surprising\, as localized Wannier states do not exist in topological bands. I will discuss a phenomenological model for the flat bands in TBG that centers the concentration of charge density and\, relatedly\, the concentration of Berry flux. The bands obtained have excellent quantitative agreement with the Bistritzer-Macdonald model for realistic parameters. I will show that\, rather remarkably\, the model hosts decoupled flavor moments which despite being only power-law delocalized with infinite localization length\, have parametrically small overlap with each other. I will show how this unifies many of the observations in TBG and leads to a novel Mott semimetal phase for intermediate temperatures where moments are thermally disordered but charge fluctuations are mostly frozen. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_51024/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-05.10.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240416T135637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240418T195101Z UID:10001516-1714127400-1714132800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:What Observables are Safe to Calculate? DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Jesse Thaler\, MIT \nTitle: What Observables are Safe to Calculate? \nAbstract: In collider physics\, perturbative quantum field theory is the workhorse framework for computing theoretical predictions to compare to experimental measurements. An observable is called “safe” if its cross section can be predicted order-by-order in perturbation theory with controlled non-perturbative corrections. In this talk\, I show that naive definitions of “safety” are inadequate to determine which observable are perturbatively calculable. I then argue for a more refined definition of safety based on principles from optimal transport theory. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_42624_2/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-04.26.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T113000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240319T134714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T153042Z UID:10001515-1713520800-1713526200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Fusion Rule Measurement in a Topological Qubit DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Chetan Nayak\, Microsoft and UCSB \nTitle: Fusion Rule Measurement in a Topological Qubit URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-41924/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-04.19.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T113000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240329T182905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T141259Z UID:10001513-1712311200-1712316600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Discrete geometry and the modular bootstrap DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Henry Cohn (MIT and Microsoft) \nTitle: Discrete geometry and the modular bootstrap \nAbstract: In this talk\, I’ll discuss the remarkable connections between the modular bootstrap and sphere packing or ground state problems discovered by Hartman\, Mazáč\, and Rastelli in 2019\, with a focus on opportunities for further progress. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_4524/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-04.05.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T103000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240318T135251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T141920Z UID:10001511-1711098000-1711103400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Non-Invertible Peccei-Quinn Symmetry and the Massless Quark Solution to the Strong CP Problem DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Sungwoo Hong\, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) \nTitle: Non-Invertible Peccei-Quinn Symmetry and the Massless Quark Solution to the Strong CP Problem \nAbstract: In this talk\, I will discuss a new solution to the strong CP problem\, one of the most important and challenging problems\, of the Standard Model (SM) based on the generalized global symmetry. To this end\, I will first show that there exist non-invertible chiral symmetries acting on quark fields once the SM is extended with gauged quark flavor symmetry. Interestingly enough\, such symmetries\, which we named them as “non-invertible Peccei-Quinn symmetries”\, exist only because the SM has the same number of generations as colors\, yet another feature that deserves a fundamental explanation. Then I discuss how these new generalized symmetries set the down Yukawa to be exactly zero and lead to a massless quark solution to the strong CP problem. Completion of the solution requires (i) generation of down quark Yukawas to be consistent with both observed quark mass spectrum and mixings and (ii) generation of O(1) CP violating phase called CKM phase\, crucially without destabilizing our solution to the strong CP problem. I will discuss that these rather non-trivial tasks can be achieved by a UV completion in an SU(9) quark color-flavor unification. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-32224/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-03.22.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T113000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240311T164549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T164549Z UID:10002907-1710496800-1710502200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Monopoles\, scattering\, generalized symmetries DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Diego Delmastro (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) \nTitle: Monopoles\, scattering\, generalized symmetries\n \nAbstract: Gauge theory is a very mature subject by now. Surprisingly\, some of its symmetries have only been properly understood in the last couple of years. Specifically\, such theories typically have a very rich set of symmetries\, involving modern notions such as higher-form symmetries\, higher-group symmetries\, and categorical symmetries. A proper understanding of these generalized symmetries is not really crucial if we are interested in scattering processes involvingfundamental particles only\, but it does become quite essential if we want to add monopoles into the mix.  In this talk I will review where these generalized symmetries come from\, and how they impose constraints on scattering amplitudes of elementary particles against heavy monopoles. This will allow us to resolve a decades-old puzzle concerning such processes\, where incoming electrons appear to become fractional particles after the scattering event. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/monopoles-scattering-generalized-symmetries/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/1710175391273-1be4453c-8fc6-4e08-84f5-51bec5d04ec1docx_1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T123000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240311T201438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T161117Z UID:10002908-1710324000-1710333000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Cluster state as a noninvertible SPT phase DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Shu-Heng Shao (SUNY Stony Brook) \nTitle: Cluster state as a noninvertible SPT phase\n \nAbstract: We will point out a non-invertible symmetry of the ordinary 1+1d Z2xZ2 cluster Hamiltonian. Therefore\, the cluster state can be viewed as a non-invertible SPT phase under this fusion category symmetry\, which is Rep(D8). We furthermore find two new stabilizer states that are distinct from the cluster state as Rep(D8) SPT phases\, but identical as Z2xZ2 SPT phases. Finally\, we discuss the degenerate edge modes at the interfaces between these three Rep(D8) SPT phases.  URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_31324/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-08.13.2024.docx-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T100000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240305T204031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T165344Z UID:10001510-1709888400-1709892000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:A model for studying the sign problem on quantum computers: Z(3) gauge theory with three fermion flavors in 1+1 dimensions DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Semeon Valgushev (Iowa State University) \nTitle: A model for studying the sign problem on quantum computers: Z(3) gauge theory with three fermion flavors in 1+1 dimensions \nAbstract: Many properties of quantum field theories can be understood with the help of classical numerical methods. Yet there are several outstanding problems — most remarkably the behaviour of nuclear matter at finite density and out-of-equilibrium real-time dynamics — that require the use of quantum algorithms. We present a simple yet physically rich toy model of QCD/nuclear matter at finite density\, termed “QZD”\, where Z stands for Z(3) gauge theory coupled to Nf = 3 fermion flavors\, suitable for simulation on near-term quantum devices. We study it using tensor networks and find that in weak coupling the spectrum is that of the expected mesons and baryons\, although the corrections in weak coupling are nontrivial. In strong coupling\, besides the usual baryon\, the singlet meson is a baryon anti-baryon state. For two special values of the coupling constant\, the lightest baryon is degenerate with the lightest octet meson\, and the lightest singlet meson\, respectively. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-3824/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/1709829554146-a2e594b2-ba0b-4248-bd23-63c7f0f9e199docx_1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T113000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240219T193919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T151759Z UID:10001508-1708682400-1708687800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Spontaneously Broken (-1)-form symmetries DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Motoo Suzuki (Harvard) \nTitle: Spontaneously Broken (-1)-form symmetries \nAbstract: Spontaneous breaking of symmetries leads to universal phenomena. We extend this notion to (−1)-form U(1) symmetries. The spontaneous breaking is diagnosed by a dependence of the vacuum energy on a constant background field θ\, which can be probed by the topological susceptibility. This leads to a reinterpretation of the Strong CP problem as arising from a spontaneously broken instantonic symmetry in QCD. We discuss how known solutions to the problem are unified in this framework and explore some\, so far unsuccessful\, attempts to find new solutions. I will also talk about our ongoing work on the explicit breaking by monopoles. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-22824/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-02.23.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240216T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240216T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240212T160753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T212952Z UID:10001507-1708079400-1708084800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Programmable Simulations of Molecules and Materials with present-day Reconfigurable Quantum Processors DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Susanne Yelin (Harvard) \nTitle: Programmable Simulations of Molecules and Materials with present-day Reconfigurable Quantum Processors \nAbstract: Simulations of quantum chemistry and quantum materials are believed to be among the most important potential applications of quantum information processors\, but realizing practical quantum advantage for such problems is challenging. We introduce a simulation framework for strongly correlated quantum systems that can be represented by model spin Hamiltonians. Our approach leverages reconfigurable qubit architectures to programmably simulate real-time dynamics and introduces an algorithm for extracting chemically relevant spectral properties via classical co-processing of quantum measurement results. We develop a digital-analog simulation toolbox for efficient Hamiltonian time evolution utilizing digital Floquet engineering and hardware-optimized multi-qubit operations to accurately realize complex spin-spin interactions\, and as an example present an implementation proposal based on Rydberg atom arrays. Then\, we show how detailed spectral and other relevant chemical information can be extracted from these dynamics through snapshot measurements and single-ancilla control\, enabling the evaluation of excitation energies and finite-temperature susceptibilities from a single-dataset. To illustrate the approach\, we show how this method can be used to compute key properties of a polynuclear transition-metal catalyst and 2D magnetic materials. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-21624/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-02.16.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T173000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240212T162016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T211844Z UID:10002103-1707926400-1707931800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Quantum Algebra of Chern-Simons Matrix Model and Large N Limit DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Sen Hu (Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Study) \nTitle: Quantum Algebra of Chern-Simons Matrix Model and Large N Limit \nAbstract: In this talk we discuss the algebra of quantum observables of the Chern-Simons matrix model which was originally proposed by Susskind and Polychronakos to describe electrons in fractional quantum Hall effects. We establish the commutation relations for its generators and study the large N limit of its representation. We show that the large N limit algebra is isomorphic to the uniform in N algebra studied by Costello\, which is conjecturally isomorphic to the deformed double current algebra studied by Guay. Under appropriate scaling limit\, we show that the large N limit algebra degenerates to a Lie algebra which admits a surjective map to the affine Lie algebra of u(p). This leads to a complete proof of the large N emergence of the u(p) current algebra as proposed by Dorey\, Tong and Turner. This also suggests a rigorous derivation of edge excitation of a fractional quantum Hall droplet. This is a joint work with Si Li\, Dongheng Ye and Yehao Zhou (arXiv: 2308.14046). URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-21424/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter,Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-02.14.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240205T162614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T184606Z UID:10001506-1707471000-1707476400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Quantum Algorithms to Recognize Phases of Matter and Exactly Solvable 2D Models with Anomalous Entanglement Entropy DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Soonwon Choi (MIT) \nTitle: Quantum Algorithms to Recognize Phases of Matter and  Exactly Solvable 2D Models with Anomalous Entanglement Entropy \nAbstract: In this talk\, I will report my two recent results at the intersection of quantum information and strongly interacting phases of matters. \nIn the first half of the talk\, we describe exact quantum algorithms that recognize a class of 1D gapped phases\, namely symmetry protected topological phases or spontaneous symmetry breaking phases protected by abelian internal symmetry. The key idea is to observe the conceptual similarity between renormalization group (RG) flow and error correction\, and to implement the latter as unitary circuits emulating the RG flow. Our algorithm guarantees faithful recognition of a target phase with a small number of input quantum state samples. \nIn the second half\, we present a class of 2D Hamiltonians\, where the exact ground state wavefunctions can be exactly evaluated and shown to exhibit anomalous entanglement properties. One class of our models exhibit area-law scaling entanglement entropy\, but this is mostly due to non-local correlation: one finds that the topological entanglement entropy also scales with the size of subsystem choices. By making simple modifications\, we can also devise 2D models with volume-law scaling bipartite entanglement entropy. Our results can be understood as a generation of the 1D Motzkin model to 2D systems. \nBased on work done with Ethan Lake and Shankar Balasubramanian \nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09803 \nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07028 URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-2924/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-02.09.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T173000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240131T153258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T193624Z UID:10001505-1707235200-1707240600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Flavor hierarchy from smooth confinement & Towards a complete classification of 6d supergravities DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Yuta Hamada (KEK\, Tsukuba) \nTitle: Flavor hierarchy from smooth confinement & Towards a complete classification of 6d supergravities \nAbstract: The talk consists of two independent parts. In the first part\, I will talk about a new model to explain the Standard Model flavor hierarchy. Our model is based on explicit smooth confinement. The smallness of the first- and second-family fermion masses is explained by the exponential hierarchy via dimensional transmutation. In the second part\, I will talk about a classification of 6D supergravities. We make progress towards a complete classification of 6D supergravities with minimal supersymmetry and non-abelian gauge group. \nReferences – arXiv: 2209.15244\, 2309.15152\, 2311.00868 \n  URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_2624/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-02.06.2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T113000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240129T153031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T205926Z UID:10001318-1706868000-1706873400@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Quantum Circuits to local Hamiltonian: role in quantum complexity and new constructions  DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Anurag Anshu (Harvard) \nTitle: Quantum Circuits to local Hamiltonian: role in quantum complexity and new constructions \nAbstract: At the heart of the theory of NP completeness lies a mapping from classical circuits to constraint satisfaction problems (classical local Hamiltonians). \nThe quantum analogue of this is the remarkable history state construction of Kitaev (building upon Feynman’s work). This talk will provide an introduction to this mapping and its crucial role in bridging quantum computer science and quantum many-body physics research. Then\, we will describe a new mapping using tensor networks and quantum fault tolerance (https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16475). Time permitting\, we will discuss the relevance of this mapping to the quantum PCP conjecture. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_2224/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-02.02.24.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240118T143433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240118T192034Z UID:10000860-1706261400-1706266800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Gauging spacetime inversions DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Daniel Harlow (MIT) \nTitle: Gauging spacetime inversions \nAbstract: Spacetime inversion symmetries such as parity and time reversal play a central role in physics\, but they are usually treated as global symmetries. In quantum gravity there are no global symmetries\, so any spacetime inversion symmetries must be gauge symmetries. In particular this includes CRT symmetry (in even dimensions usually combined with a rotation to become CPT)\, which in quantum field theory is always a symmetry and seems likely to be a symmetry of quantum gravity as well. I’ll discuss what it means to gauge a spacetime inversion symmetry\, and explain some of the more unusual consequences of doing this. In particular I’ll argue that the gauging of CRT is automatically implemented by the sum over topologies in the Euclidean gravity path integral\, that in a closed universe the Hilbert space of quantum gravity must be a real vector space\, and that in Lorentzian signature manifolds which are not time-orientable must be included as valid configurations of the theory. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm-2/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-01.26.23.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231215T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231215T113000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240222T093357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T093357Z UID:10002796-1702634400-1702639800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Exact lattice chiral symmetry in 2d gauge theory DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Aleksey Cherman (UMN) \nTitle: Exact lattice chiral symmetry in 2d gauge theory \nAbstract: Preserving the symmetries of massless fermions is a well-known challenge in lattice field theory.  I’ll discuss symmetry-preserving lattice regularizations of 2d QED with one and two flavors of Dirac fermions\, as well as the `3450′ chiral gauge theory. The construction leverages bosonization and recently-proposed modifications of Villain-type lattice actions. The internal global symmetries act just as locally on the lattice as they do in the continuum\, the anomalies are reproduced at finite lattice spacing\, and in each case we’ve found a sign-problem-free dual formulation. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_121523/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-12.15.23.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231214T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231214T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240109T001602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T001934Z UID:10001133-1702564200-1702569600@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:When does a three-dimensions Chern-Simons theory have a time reversal symmetry? DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Roman Geiko (UCLA) \nTitle: When does a three-dimensions Chern-Simons theory have a time reversal symmetry? \nIn this talk\, I will discuss the time reversal invariance of (spin-) Chern-Simons theory in 3 dimensions at both classical and quantum levels. I will show how to obtain a complete classification of Abelian anyons with the time reversal symmetry expressed in terms of the higher Gauss sums. Then\, I will comment on the time reversal symmetry of Chern-Simons in the non-Abelian case. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_121423/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-12.14.2023.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231208T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231208T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240221T100009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T100109Z UID:10002772-1702045800-1702051200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Fermi surface symmetric mass generation and its application in nickelate superconductor DESCRIPTION:Joint Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics & Topological Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Da-Chuan Lu (UCSD) \nTitle: Fermi surface symmetric mass generation and its application in nickelate superconductor \nAbstract: Symmetric mass generation (SMG) is a novel interaction-driven mechanism that generates fermion mass without breaking symmetry\, unlike the standard Anderson-Higgs mechanism. SMG can occur in the fermion system without quantum anomalies. In this talk\, I will focus on the SMG for the systems with finite fermion density\, i.e.\, the Fermi surface. I will discuss the Fermi surface anomaly and Fermi surface SMG. Lastly\, I will talk about its application in the newly found nickelate superconductors\, where the superconductivity emerges without a nearby spontaneous symmetry-breaking phase. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_12823/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Quantum-Matter_String-Seminar-12.08.2023.docx-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T173000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20230802T170029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T162053Z UID:10001173-1701448200-1701451800@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:A Plane Defect in the 3d O(N) Model DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Abijith Krishnan (MIT) \nTitle: A Plane Defect in the 3d O(N) Model \nAbstract: It was recently found that the classical 3d O(N) model in the semi-infinite geometry can exhibit an “extraordinary-log” boundary universality class\, where the spin-spin correlation function on the boundary falls off as (log x)^(-q). This universality class exists for a range 2≤N3. In this talk\, I’ll extend this result to the 3d O(N) model in an infinite geometry with a plane defect. I’ll explain using the renormalization group (RG) that the extraordinary-log universality class is present for any finite N≥2\, and that a line of defect fixed points is present at N=∞. This line of defect fixed points is lifted to the ordinary\, special (no defect) and extraordinary-log universality classes by 1/N corrections. I’ll show that the line of defect fixed points and the 1/N corrections agree with an a-theorem by Jensen and O’Bannon for 3d CFTs with a boundary. Finally\, I’ll conclude by noting some physical systems where the extraordinary-log universality class can be observed. \n  URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_33123/ LOCATION:Hybrid CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Topological-Seminar-12.01.23.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231122T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231122T173000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240221T102006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T102032Z UID:10002775-1700668800-1700674200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Modulated Gauge Theories and Fracton Behavior in 2D DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Guilherme Delfino Silva (Boston University) \nTitle: Modulated Gauge Theories and Fracton Behavior in 2D \nAbstract: In this talk we investigate deconfined phases of two-dimensional ZN lattice gauge theories associated to spatially modulated symmetries. In order to study the low-energy physics of such modulated gauge theories we propose and explore exactly solvable gapped Hamiltonians\, which allow us to fully characterize their low-energy properties at zero temperature. We provide explicit examples and discuss how non-polynomial symmetries\, as exponential symmetries\, are powerful enough to fully constrain the mobility of isolated excitations. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_112223/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-11.22.2023..png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240222T091622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T091622Z UID:10002794-1699374600-1699380000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY: A Long Exact Sequence in Symmetry Breaking DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Cameron Krulewski (MIT) and Leon Liu (Harvard) \nTitle: A Long Exact Sequence in Symmetry Breaking \nAbstract: We study defects in symmetry breaking phases\, such as domain walls\, vortices\, and hedgehogs. In particular\, we focus on the localized gapless excitations that sometimes occur at the cores of these objects. These are topologically protected by an ’t Hooft anomaly. We classify different symmetry breaking phases in terms of the anomalies of these defects and relate them to the anomaly of the broken symmetry by an anomaly-matching formula. We also derive the obstruction to the existence of a symmetry breaking phase with a local defect. We obtain these results using a long exact sequence of groups of invertible field theories\, which we call the “symmetry breaking long exact sequence” (SBLES). \nThe mathematical backbone of the SBLES is the Smith homomorphism\, which gives a family of maps between twisted bordism groups. Though many examples have been studied\, we give the first completely general account of the Smith homomorphism. We lift it to a map of Thom \nspectra and identify the cofiber\, producing a long exact sequence of twisted bordism groups; the SBLES is the Anderson dual of that long exact sequence. Our work develops further the theory of higher Berry phase and its bulk-boundary correspondence and serves as a new computational tool for classifying symmetry protected topological phases. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_11723/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-11.07.23.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240222T112133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T112133Z UID:10002808-1698942600-1698948000@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Landscape of quantum phases in quantum materials DESCRIPTION:Joint Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics and Topological Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Liujun Zou (Perimeter Institute) \nTitle: Landscape of quantum phases in quantum materials\n\nAbstract: A central goal of condensed matter physics is to understand which quantum phases of matter can emerge in a quantum material. For this purpose\, one should be able to not only describe the quantum phases using some effective field theories\, but also capture the important microscopic information of the material via mathematical formulation. In this talk\, I will present a framework to classify quantum phases in quantum materials\, where the microscopic information of a material is encoded in its quantum anomaly. I will talk about the application of this framework to classify various exotic quantum phases of matter in different lattice systems. Using our framework\, we have obtained many results unexpected from the previous literature. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/tqms_102523/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter,Topological Quantum Matter Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-Special-Joint-QMMP-Topological-QM-11.02.23.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T192942 CREATED:20240222T060902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T060902Z UID:10002785-1697041800-1697047200@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Non-invertible symmetries\, leptons\, quarks\, and why multiple generations DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Seth Koren (Notre Dame) \nTitle: Non-invertible symmetries\, leptons\, quarks\, and why multiple generations \nAbstract: Generalized global symmetries are present in theories of particle physics\, and understanding their structure can give insight into these theories and UV completions thereof.  After discussing the generalized symmetries of the Standard Model\, we will go Beyond and show that the identification of a non-invertible symmetry of Z’ models of L_µ – L_τ reveals the existence of non-Abelian horizontal gauge theories which naturally produce exponentially small Dirac neutrino masses. Next we will uncover a subtler non-invertible symmetry in horizontal gauge theories of the quark sector which will lead us to a massless down-type quarks solution to strong CP in color-flavor unification. Intriguingly\, this theory works by virtue of the SM having the same numbers of colors and generations. URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_101123/ LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/CMSA-QMMP-10.11.23.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR