During the Fall 2023 semester, the CMSA will host a seminar on Topological Quantum Matter organized by Jie Wang. (The seminar will not run in Spring 2024).

This seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 10:30–11:30 am (Eastern time). The meetings are held in Room G10 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, and some meetings will take place virtually on Zoom or be held in hybrid formats.

To learn how to attend, please fill out this form.

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  • Continuum field theory of graphene bilayer system

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/BIABg2zFVGE Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Jian Kang, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China Title: Continuum field theory of graphene bilayer system Abstract: The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) […]

  • Controlling Quantum Matter with Quantum Cavity Fields

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/Ig468DbAVGs Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Vasil Rokaj (Harvard) Title: Controlling Quantum Matter with Quantum Cavity Fields Abstract: Cavity modification of material properties and phenomena is a novel research field […]

  • Homotopy classes of loops of Clifford unitaries

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/vYXTKTmNFHg Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Roman Geiko, UCLA Title: Homotopy classes of loops of Clifford unitaries Abstract: We study Clifford locality-preserving unitaries and stabilizer Hamiltonians by means of Hermitian […]

  • Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moire TMD bilayers

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Xueyang Song (MIT) Title: Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moire TMD bilayers Abstract: Motivated by the recent experimental breakthroughs in observing Fractional Quantum […]

  • Exact Results in Flat Band Hubbard Models

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/VDOvgjk_vVY Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Princeton University Title: Exact Results in Flat Band Hubbard Models Abstract: Flat bands, like those in the kagome lattice or twisted bilayer graphene, are a natural setting […]

  • Dipolar and modulated symmetry protected topological phases

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/7sA3r5M1oT8 <strong>Topological Quantum Matter Seminar</strong> <strong>Speaker:</strong> Ho Tat Lam, MIT <strong>Title:</strong> Dipolar and modulated symmetry protected topological phases <strong>Abstract:</strong> Modulated symmetries are symmetries whose symmetry generators exhibit spatial modulations. We will […]

  • Breaking ergodicity: quantum scars and regular eigenstates

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/AKZ4O0ZUrPo Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Ceren Dag, Harvard Title: Breaking ergodicity: quantum scars and regular eigenstates Abstract: Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) consist of a few low-entropy eigenstates in an otherwise chaotic many-body […]

  • Composite fermions and the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/UqrKDW6aJuc Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Hart Goldman, University of Chicago Title: Composite fermions and the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect Abstract: Recent experiments have revealed evidence for fractional quantum […]

  • Landscape of quantum phases in quantum materials

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Joint Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics and Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Liujun Zou (Perimeter Institute) Title: Landscape of quantum phases in quantum materials Abstract: A central goal of condensed […]

  • Uniqueness of Landau levels and their analogs with higher Chern numbers

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/Jf8ONC2tUfc Topological Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Bruno Mera, Instituto Superior Tecnico Title: Uniqueness of Landau levels and their analogs with higher Chern numbers Abstract: Lowest Landau level wavefunctions are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian […]