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SUMMARY:Designing Topological Quantum Matter: From Conformal Field Theory t
	o Non-Abelian Topological Insulators
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Thomas Iadecola\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\
	n\nDissertation Committee:  Claudio Chamon\, Anatoli Polkovnikov\, Michael 
	El-Batanouny\, So-Young Pi\, Emanuel Katz\n\nAbstract:\n\nAbstract: Recent 
	advances in experimental condensed matter physics suggest a powerful new pa
	radigm for the realization of exotic phases of quantum matter in the labora
	tory. Rather than conducting an exhaustive search for materials that realiz
	e these phases at low temperatures\, it may be possible to design quantum s
	ystems that exhibit the desired properties.  In this talk\, I will argue in
	 favor of a theoretical approach\, the coupled-wire construction\, that is 
	morally (if not historically) motivated by these developments\, with an eye
	 towards applications to topological states of matter.  The goal of coupled
	-wire constructions is to build models of exotic quantum phases "from the g
	round up" by coupling together one-dimensional quantum wires.  Using this m
	ethod\, one can design analytically tractable microscopic theories for topo
	logical states of matter starting from well-understood building blocks.  As
	 an example of this approach\, I will present a coupled-wire construction i
	n which the input\, a family of conformal field theories\, is understood ex
	actly\, while the output is a family of new non-Abelian topological states 
	of matter in three spatial dimensions.  The family of topological phases co
	nstructed in this way can be viewed as "non-Abelian topological insulators"
	 that generalize the non-Abelian Read-Rezayi series of bosonic quantum Hall
	 states to one higher spatial dimension.\n\n![Thomas](/resources/event-imag
	e/1740/636c77b_small)
LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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