Program

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  • The program will be updated and expanded continuously. Last update: August 1.

  • Go to seminar week 1 (July 14 - 18): Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
  • Go to workshop week (July 21 - 25): Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
  • Go to seminar week 2 (July 28 - August 1): Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
  • Go to seminar week 3 (August 4 - 8): Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday


  •   SEMINAR WEEK 1
       
      Monday, July 14
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Andrew Essin (California Institute of Technology)
      Interacting Hamiltonians for topological insulator surfaces
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Kun Yang (Florida State University)
      Violation of entanglement area law in fermionic and bosonic systems
       
      Tuesday, July 15
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Marc-Daniel Schulz (University of Minnesota)
      Interplay of topological order and symmetry breaking
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Martin Greiter (University of Würzburg)
      Non-Abelian statistics in one dimension: Majorana fermions, topological momentum spacings, and SU(2) level k fusion rule
       
    14:00 - 15:30
    Poster sessions
       
      Wednesday, July 16
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Masahiro Sato (Aoyama Gakuin University)
      Floquet topological spin liquid in a driven Kitaev honeycomb model
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Luis Seabra (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
      From solitons to Majorana bound states in a one-dimensional interacting model
       
    14:00 - 14:45 Jens H Bardarson (MPIPKS)
      Many-body localization and entanglement
       
      Thursday, July 17
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Gunnar Möller (University of Cambridge)
      Realizations of synthetic gauge fields in the dice lattice geometry
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Ville Lahtinen (University of Amsterdam)
      Condensate-induced transitions and critical spin chains: Construction of exactly solvable spin chains with so(N)_1 critical points
       
    14:00 - 14:45 Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University)
      Long-range Coulomb interactions and the quadratic band touching in two and three dimensions
       
      Friday, July 18
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Hong Yao (Tsinghua University)
      Emergent space-time supersymmetry in 3+1D Weyl and 2+1D Dirac semimetals
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Bitan Roy (CMTC, University of Maryland)
      Effective theory of surface states in topological Kondo insulator SmB6
       
      WORKSHOP WEEK
       
      Sunday, July 20
       
    18:00 - 20:00 Registration
       
    18:30 - 21:00 Welcome reception
       
       
      Monday, July 21
    07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
    08:00 - 16:30 Registration
       
    08:45 - 09:00 Roderich Moessner (director MPIPKS) & scientific coordinators
      Opening
       
    09:00 - 09:30 Senthil Todadri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
      Interacting electronic topological insulators in 3 dimensions
       
    09:30 - 10:00 Shinsei Ryu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
      Symmetry-protected topoloigcal phases and orientifolds
       
    10:00 - 10:30 Lukasz Fidkowski (Stony Brook University)
      Stability of topological superconductors to interactions and surface topological order
       
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Adolfo G. Grushin
       
    11:00 - 11:30 Olexei Motrunich (California Institute of Technology)
      Model realization and numerical study of a three-dimensional bosonic topological insulator
       
    11:30 - 12:00 Bernd Rosenow (Universität Leipzig)
      Dephasing suppression and phase lapses: Signatures of entanglement in the fractional quantum Hall regime
       
    12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
       
      Chair: Stefanos Kourtis
       
    14:00 - 14:30 Yong-Baek Kim (University of Toronto)
      Topological phases on hyperhoneycomb and pyrochlore lattices
       
    14:30 - 15:00 Simon Trebst (University of Cologne)
      Quantum spin liquids and Majorana metals
       
    15:00 - 15:30 Titus Neupert (Princeton University)
      Interacting surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators
       
    15:30 - 16:30 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Frank Pollmann
       
    16:30 - 17:30 TCQS14 Colloquium
       
      Steve Simon (University of Oxford)
      Topological matter and why you should be interested
       
    18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
       
    19:00 - 22:00
    Poster session I
       
      Tuesday, July 22
    07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
    08:00 - 16:30 Registration
       
       
    09:00 - 09:30 Michael Levin (University of Chicago)
      Braiding statistics and symmetry-protected topological phases
       
    09:30 - 10:00 Fiona Burnell (University of Minnesota)
      Anomalous symmetry fractionalization in topologically ordered surface states
       
    10:00 - 10:30 Claudio Chamon (Boston University)
      Accessing topological order in fractionalized liquids with gapped edges
       
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Bitan Roy
       
    11:00 - 11:30 Roderich Moessner (MPIPKS)
      Dynamical correlations of a quantum spin liquid
       
    11:30 - 12:00 Andreas Läuchli (University of Innsbruck)
      Entanglement spectroscopy of 1+1D CFT systems
       
    12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
       
      Chair: Eddy Ardonne
       
    14:00 - 14:30 Andrea Young (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
      Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state
       
    14:30 - 15:00 Moty Heiblum (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
      Unexpected pairing of electrons in the IQHE regime
       
    15:00 - 15:30 Lauren Aycock (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
      Optical flux lattices for ultracold neutral atoms
       
    15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Siddhardh Chandra
       
    16:00 - 16:30 Johannes Knolle (MPIPKS)
      Spin structure factor in Abelian and non-Abelian Kitaev spin liquids and the effect of disorder
       
    16:30 - 17:00 Ronny Thomale (University of Würzburg)
      Wire deconstructionism of topological phases
       
    17:00 - 17:30 Victor Gurarie (University of Colorado)
      Bulk-boundary correspondence in fractional quantum Hall effect
       
    18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
       
      Wednesday, July 23
    07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
    08:00 - 16:30 Registration
       
       
      Chair: Jens H Bardarson
       
    09:00 - 09:30 Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley)
      Connecting experimental observables to entanglement growth in many-body localization
       
    09:30 - 10:00 Dmitry Abanin (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
      Ergodicity, entanglement, and many-body localization
       
    10:00 - 10:30 Ehud Altman (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
      Universal dynamics and topology in many-body localized states
       
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Maria Hermanns
       
    11:00 - 11:30 Gil Refael (California Institute of Technology)
      TBA
       
    11:30 - 12:00 Mohammad Hafezi (University of Maryland)
      Quantum Hall physics with photons: From observation of non-interacting edge states towards simulating many-body physics
       
    12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
       
      Chair: Michael Zaletel
       
    14:00 - 14:30 Roger Mong (California Institute of Technology)
      Non-Abelian topological order from symmetrization
       
    14:30 - 15:00 Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University)
      Majorana fermions in magnetic atomic chains
       
    15:00 - 15:30 Nicolas Regnault (École Normale Supérieure de Paris)
      Matrix product states and the fractional quantum Hall effecs
       
    15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
       
    16:00 - 22:00 Social program (excursion & dinner)
      Guided tour through the historic part of Dresden & conference dinner at the restaurant "Carolaschlösschen"
       
      Thursday, July 24
    07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
    08:00 - 16:30 Registration
       
      Chair: Mykola Maksymenko
       
    09:00 - 09:30 Kirill Shtengel (University of California)
      Anyonics: Designing exotic circuitry with non-Abelian anyons
       
    09:30 - 10:00 Maissam Barkeshli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
      Coherent transmutation of electrons into fractionalized anyons
       
    10:00 - 10:30 Steve Simon (University of Oxford)
      More about entanglement spectra of fractional quantum Hall states
       
    10:30 - 10:35
    Group photo
      (to be published on the TCQS14 website)
       
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Oliver Buerschaper
       
    11:00 - 11:30 Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
      Symmetries and boundary theories for chiral projected entangled pair states
       
    11:30 - 12:00 Zheng-Cheng Gu (Perimeter institute for Theoretical Physics)
      Emergence of p+ip topological superconducting ground state in infinite-U Hubbard model on honeycomb lattice
       
    12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
       
      Chair: Vincenzo Alba
       
    14:00 - 14:30 Kareljan Schoutens (University of Amsterdam)
      Supersymmetric quantum wires
       
    14:30 - 15:00 Masaki Oshikawa (University of Tokyo)
      Symmetry-protected trivialphases in one dimension
       
    15:00 - 15:30 Ari Turner (Johns Hopkins University)
      Spin fluctuations and entanglement
       
    15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Jonathan Ruhman
       
    16:00 - 16:30 Stephan Rachel (TU Dresden)
      From correlated topological insulators to spin liquids and iridates
       
    16:30 - 17:00 Netanel Lindner (Israel Institute of Technology)
      Light induced topological phenomena
       
    17:00 - 17:30 Adiel Stern (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
      Non-abelian physics between one and two dimensions
       
    18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
       
    19:00 - 22:00
    Poster session II
       
      Friday, July 25
    07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
    08:00 - 16:30 Registration
       
       
      Chair: Luis Seabra
       
    09:00 - 09:30 Didier Poilblanc (Université de Toulouse)
      Superfluids and superconductors from projected entangled pair states
       
    09:30 - 10:00 Michael Zaletel (University of California, Berkeley)
      Towards a full measurement of symmetry fractionalization with applications to the Kagome quantum spin liquid
       
    10:00 - 10:30 Fakher Assaad (University of Würzburg)
      Entanglement spectra of interacting fermions in quantum Monte Carlo simulations
       
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
       
      Chair: Hong Yao
       
    11:00 - 11:30 Yuval Oreg (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
      Fractional Majoranas and the Wires' approach for fractional topological insulators
       
    11:30 - 12:00 Jason Alicea (California Institute of Science)
      A new path towards universal topological quantum computation
       
    12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
       
    14:00 - 18:30 Research time & informal discussions
     
     
      SEMINAR WEEK 2
       
      Monday, July 28
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Eddy Ardonne (Stockholm University)
      Phase-junctions in one-dimensional topological superconductors
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Oliver Buerschaper (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
      New quantum dimer models with a twisted Z2 spin liquid phase
       
    14:00 - 14:45 Adolfo Grushin (MPIPKS)
      Stability of Chern and fractional Chern insulator
       
      Tuesday, July 29
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Anne Nielsen (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
      Fractional quantum Hall lattice models from conformal field theory
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Stefanos Kourtis (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Material Research)
      Topological order from strong interactions in two-dimensional lattice models of spinless fermions
       
    14:00 - 15:30
    Poster sessions
       
      Wednesday, July 30
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Hong-Hao Tu (Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics)
      Infinite-dimensional-matrix product states from conformal field theories
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 11:45 William Witczak-Krempa (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
      Interacting Weyl semimetals: Characterization via the topological Hamiltonian and its breakdown
       
      Thursday, July 31
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Maria Hermanns (University of Cologne)
      Quantum spin liquid with a Majorana Fermi surface on the three-dimensional hyperoctagon lattice
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Arnaud Ralko (University Joseph Fourier)
      When holes lose their statistics
       
    14:00 - 14:45 Xiao-Gang Wen (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
      The universal SPT invariants and SPT states beyond group cohomology
       
    19:00 - 22:00 Dinner at the restaurant "Italienisches Dörfchen"
       
      Friday, August 1
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Seyyed Mir Abolhassan Vaezi (Cornell University)
      Fibonacci anyons from Abelian bilayer quantum Hall states
     
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Yidun Wan (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
      Ground state degeneracy of non-Abelian topological phases with boundaries
       
      SEMINAR WEEK 3
       
      Monday, August 4
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Keisuke Totsuka (Kyoto University)
      Symmetry-protected topological Mott insulators of ultra-cold fermions in one dimension -entanglement and non-local order parameters
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
      Tuesday, August 5
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Shigeki Onoda (RIKEN)
      Symmetry-protected topological phases and transitions in frustrated spin-1/2 chains
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    14:00 - 15:30
    Poster sessions
       
      Wednesday, August 6
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Ming-Chiang Chung (National Chung Hsing University)
      A Memory of Majorana modes through quantum quench
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
      Thursday, August 7
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Francesco Parisen Toldin (University of Würzburg)
      Quantum critical behavior of the Hubbard and Hubbard-Kane-Mele model on the honeycomb lattice
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Discussions
       
      Friday, August 8
       
    10:00 - 10:45 Discussions
       
    10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
       
    11:15 - 12:00 Discussions