program


the talks abstracts


Sunday, September 15
Monday, September 16
Tuesday, September 17
Wednesday, September 18
Thursday, September 19
Friday, September 20




Sunday, September 15

18.00 - 21.00 Registration
   
19.00 Reception with food and beverages
   
   
 
Monday, September 16

   
09.00 - 09.15 Jan-Michael Rost (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) &
  Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
  Session: Topological Insulators
   
09.15 - 09:50 M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University)
  New forms of matter: Topological insulators & superconductors: Recent results
   
09.50 - 10.25 Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  Topological order at the surface of a topological insulator
   
10.25 - 10.55 Coffee break
   
10.55 - 11.30 Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley)
  Perturbations of topological edge and surface states by magnetic fields and disorder
   
11.30 - 11.55 Ewelina Hankiewicz (Würzburg University)
  Spin helical transport in normal and superconducting topogical insulators
   
11.55 - 12.30 Andreas Ludwig (UC Santa Barbara)
  Spin-liquid phases on the kagome lattice from chiral 3-Spin interactions: Kalmeyer-laughlin, and gapless non-fermi liquid phases
   
12.30 - 14.15 Lunch break
   
  Session: Edge and surface states
   
14.15 - 14.50 Rui-Rui Du (Rice University, Houston)
  Creating majorana fermions on the edge of inAs/GaSb quantum wells
   
14.50 - 15.25 Markus Morgenstern (RWTH Aachen)
  Surface Science probes spin-orbit induced topology
   
15.25 - 16.00 Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot)
  Edge reconstruction and renormalization in the ν =2/3 regime
   
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
16.30 - 17.30
TOPSYS13-Colloquium
  Moty Heiblum (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  Controlled dephasing in mesoscopic systems
   
18.30 - 19.30 Supper
   
   
 
Tuesday, September 17

   
  Session: Topological Order & Topological Insulators
   
09.00 - 09.35 Eugene Demler (Harvard University, Cambridge)
  Exploring topological states with synthetic matter
   
09.35 - 10.10 Matthew Fisher (UC Santa Barbara)
  Quantum disentangled liquids
   
10.10 - 10.45 Xiaolian Qi (Stanford University)
  Genons: A new twist on topologically ordered states
   
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
   
11.15 - 11.50 Christoph Brüne (Universität Würzburg)
  Transport properties of topological insulators
   
11.50 - 12.25 Nai Phuan Ong (Princeton University, Princeton)
  Transport investigation of the topological crystalline insulator PbSnSe: Evidence for 3D massive Dirac states
   
12.25 - 12.50 Oded Zilberberg (ETH Zürich)
  Quasicrystals, meet topological Insulators
   
12.50 - 14.30 Lunch break
   
  Session: Heat transport and Coulomb drag / Topological states
   
14.30 - 15.05 Leonid Levitov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
  Ballistic heat transfer and energy waves in an electron system
   
15.05 - 15.30 Mikhail Titov (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  Coulomb drag in graphene
   
   
15.30 - 15.55 Alex Levchenko (Michigan State University, East Lansing)
  Coulomb drag in the hydrodynamic regime
   
15.55 - 16.25 Coffee break
   
16.25 - 17.00 Roderich Moessner (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
  Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations
   
17.00 - 17.35 Jurgen Smet (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart)
  Even denominator fractional quantum Hall physics in ZnO
   
17.35 - 18.10 Dominik Zumbühl (University of Basel)
  Evidence for helical nuclear spin order in GaAs quantum wires
   
18.35 - 19.30 Supper
   
19.30 - 22.00 Poster session I
   
   
Wednesday, September 18

 
  Session: Quantum Dynamics
   
09.00 - 09:35 Frank Koppens (ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels)
  Graphene ultra-fast carrier dynamics
   

09.35 - 10.10 Nuh Gedik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
  Observation of Floquet-Bloch states and photo-induced time-reversal symmetry breaking on the surface of a topological insulator
   

10.10 - 10.35 Aditi Mitra (New York University)
  Quantum quenches: Prethermalization, thermalization, and dynamical phase transitions
   

10.35 - 10.40
Group photo (to be published on the event's webpage)
   
10.40 - 11.05 Coffee break
   

11.05 - 11.40 Alberto Morpurgo (University of Geneva)
  Interaction effects in multi-terminal suspended graphene devices
   

11.40 - 12.05 Dmitry Abanin (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo)
  Local conservation laws and the structure of the many-body localized states
   
12.05 - 12.30 Dmitry Bagrets (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Köln)
  Exactly solvable model of the Mach-Zehnder electronic interferometer
   
12.30 - 12.55 Ivan Protopopov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Dynamics of waves in 1D quantum electron systems: From population inversion to classical hydrodynamics
   
12.55 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
14.00 - 22.00
Excursion and Conference Dinner in Stolpen
   
   

Thursday, September 19

 
  Session: Topological Insulators and Superconductors
   

09.00 - 09.35 Ali Yazdani (Princeton University)
  Majorana fermions in chains of magnetic atoms on a Superconductor

 

09.35 - 10.10 Leonid Glazman (Yale University, New Haven)
  Topological superconducting phase in a helical Shiba chain
   

10.10 - 10.45 Charles Marcus (University of Copenhagen)
  Nanowire-based majorana systems
   

10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
   

11.15 - 11.50 Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot)
  Non-abelian anyons beyond Majorana fermions
   

11.50 - 12.25 Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  Fractional helical liquids
   

12.25 - 12.50 Takashi Oka (The University of Tokyo)
  Floquet theory of topological phase transitions
   

12.50 - 14.30 Lunch break

 
  Session: Graphene
   

14.30 - 15.05 Eva Andrei (Rutgers University, Piscataway)
  Tuning a charge impurity in graphene: From cloaking to supercriticality
   
15.05 - 15.40 Marek Potemski (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble)
  Landau level spectroscopy of graphene: Electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions
   
15.40 - 16.15 Igor Gornyi (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Spectral and transport properties of graphene with strong point-like scatterers
   
16.15 - 16.45 Coffee break
   
16.45 - 17.20 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
  Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state
   
17.20 - 17.55 Xiaodong Xu (University of Washington, Seattle)
  Optical manipulation and electrical control of valley pseudospin in atomically-thin semiconductors
 
   
17.55 - 18.30 Cory Dean (The City College of New York)
  Hofstadter's Butterfly in graphene superlattices
   
18.30 - 19.30 Supper
   
19.30 - 22.00 Poster session II
   
   
Friday, September 20

  Session: Majorana Fermions & Quantum Wires
   

09.00 - 09.35 Piet Brouwer (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Disordered majorana wires
   

09.35 - 10.10 Karsten Flensberg (University of Copenhagen)
  Majorana bound states in time-reversal-symmetric nanowires
   

10.10 - 10.35 Torsten Karzig (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
  Boosting majorana zero modes

10.35 - 11.05 Coffee break
   

 
   
11.05 - 11.40 Björn Trauzettel (Universität Würzburg)
  Transport properties of helical edge states
   
11.40 - 12.15 Reinhold Egger (Universität Düsseldorf)
  Multi-terminal Coulomb-Majorana junction
   
12.15 - 12.40 Joseph Dufouleur (IFW-Leibniz Institute, Dresden)
  Quasi-ballistic transport of Dirac fermions in a Bi2Se3 nanowire
   
12.40 - 12.50 Closing Remarks
   
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break


Last updated: September 12, 2013