On August 27-28, 2018, the CMSA will be hosting a Kickoff workshop on Topology and Quantum Phases of Matter. New ideas rooted in topology have recently had a big impact on condensed matter physics, and have highlighted new connections with high energy physics, mathematics and quantum information theory. Additionally, these ideas have found applications in the design of photonic systems and of materials with novel mechanical properties. The aim of this program will be to deepen these connections by fostering discussion and seeding new collaborations within and across disciplines.
This workshop is a part of the CMSA’s program on Program on Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter, and will be the first of two workshops, in addition to a visitor program and seminars.
The workshop will be held in room G10 of the CMSA, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.
Speakers:
8:30 – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 am Welcome
Session 1: “Topology and Mechanics”
Moderator: L. Mahadevan
| 9:20 – 9:50 am | Emil Prodan | Topological Mechanics: Is there a limit? |
| 9:50 – 10:20 am | Brad Marston | Topological Origin of Equatorial Waves in Atmospheres and Oceans |
10:20 – 11:00 am Break
Session 2: Majorana Fermions and Quantum Hall Physics
Moderator:
| 11:00 – 11:30 am | Dima Feldman | Partial equilibration of integer and fractional edge channels in the thermal quantum Hall effect |
| 11:30 – 12:00 pm | Bert Halperin | Open questions about a Landau level near half filling |
| 12:00 – 12:30 pm | Achim Rosch | Thermal quantum Hall effect in the spin liquid RuCl3: the role of phonons |
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch
Session 3: Student Talks
| 2:00 – 2:10 pm | Xu Yang | Symmetric gauge theories and Lieb-Schultz-Mattis-type constraints |
| 2:10 – 2:20 pm | Charles Xiong | Mayer-Vietoris sequence and symmetry-protected topological phases with reflection symmetry |
| 2:20 – 2:30 pm | Liujun Zou | Symmetry Enriched U(1) Quantum Spin Liquids |
| 2:30 – 2:40 pm | Iris Cong | Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks |
| 2:40 – 2:50 pm | Ethan Lake | Higher form symmetries and spontaneous symmetry breaking |
| 2:50 – 3:00 pm | Xue Yang Song | Monopoles in Dirac spin liquids |
3:00 – 3:45 pm Break
Session 4: New Theoretical Approaches
| 3:45 – 4:15 pm | Max Metlitski | Surface Topological Order and a new ‘t Hooft Anomaly of Interaction Enabled 3+1D Fermion SPTs |
| 4:15 – 4:45 pm | Liang Fu | Non-Hemitian topological phenomena |
| 4:45 – 5:00 pm | Zhen Bi | Non-abelian Deconfined Quantum Phase Transitions in 3+1D. |
Session 1: Topological Phenomena in Solids and Cold Atoms
| 9:15 – 9:45 am | Patrick Lee | Transport properties of Weyl and Dirac semi-metals in a high magnetic field |
| 9:45 – 10:15 am |
Meng Cheng |
Fermionic Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorems |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Mathias Scheurer | SU(2) gauge theory of fluctuating magnetism: Fermi-surface reconstruction without translational-symmetry breaking |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Fabian Grusdt | Microscopy of the doped Fermi-Hubbard model |
10:45- 11:15 am Break
Session 2: Topological Phenomena with Photons and Cold Atoms
| 11:15 – 11:45 am | Marin Soljacic | Topological Photonics |
| 11:45 – 12:15 pm | Cenke Xu | Classification of Interacting Topological Insulators with Synthetic Dimensions |
| 12:15 – 12:30 pm | Frank Zhang | Machine Learning Topological Phases |
12:30 – 1:45 pm Lunch
Session 3: Tensor Networks, Fractions and New Developments
| 1:45 – 2:15 pm | Anton Kapustin | Localization properties of Chern insulators |
| 2:15 – 2:30 pm | Yingfei Gu | Modular S-matrix from OTOC |
| 2:30 – 2:45 pm | Dominic Else | Interacting crystalline topological phases |
| 2:45 – 3:15 pm | X. G. Wen | A classification of 3+1D topological orders for boson systems |
3:15pm – 3:30pm Conclusion
More information to follow.
