Condensed Matter Theory

Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2016 to July 31st, 2017. Previous/next year.
Sep09
Mike Kolodrubetz
UC Berkeley
Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems
Sep12
Zheng Shi
Fermionic approach to junctions of multiple quantum wires
Sep19
Siddhardh Chandra Morampudi
Statistics of fractionalized excitations through threshold spectroscopy Host: Christopher Laumann
Sep23
Dries Sels
BU
Developing and Understanding Methods for Quasi-Adiabatic Dynamics
Oct03
Philip Crowley
Many body localisation with weak disorder in the quantum east model
Oct11
Olav Syljuasen
University of Oslo
Magnetic Bloch Oscillations (Monday Schedule) Host: Anders Sandvik
Oct31
S. Flach
Center for Theore+cal Physics of Complex Systems, Ins+tute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea New Zealand Ins+tute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Designing and perturbing flatband networks
Nov14
Peter Lunts
Exact critical exponents for the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point in and dimensions
Nov21
Andrea Trombettoni 
CNR-IOM and SISSA, Trieste
Tunneling-based quantum devices with ultracold strongly interacting atoms
Nov28
Alioscia Hamma
University of Massachusetts Boston
Equilibration in the many-body localized phase
Jan23
Aidan Brown
Simon Fraser University
Dissipation, time asymmetry, and flux for model biomolecular systems
Feb10
Po-Hao Huang
Boston University
Coupled spin-1/2 ladders as microscopic models for non-Abelian chiral spin liquids
Mar27
Sergej Flach
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea
Intermittent Many-Body Dynamics at Equilibrium
Mar29
Michael Pretko
MIT
Higher Rank Quantum Spin Liquids: From Fractons to Emergent Gravity
Apr05
Meng Cheng
Yale University
Time-reversal and reflection symmetry in (2+1)-dimensional topological phases
Apr10
Sayan Choudhury
TBD
Apr14
Ayoti Patra
Maryland
Shortcuts to adiabaticity using flow-fields
Apr19
Adrian Po
Harvard University
Chiral Floquet Phases
Apr26
Sylvain Capponi
Toulouse university & BU
Competition between Bose glass and superfluid phases in quantum antiferromagnets Host: Anders Sandvik
May03
Zohar Nussinov
WUSTL
Glassy dynamics as a consequence of the equilibrium liquid to solid transition
May08
Yi-Zhuang You
Harvard University
Topological Phase Transitions: From Duality Web to Symmetric Mass Generation
May10
Roger Melko
Stochastic Neural Networks for Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem
May16
Anatoly Dymarsky
UKY
Qauntum chaos, (diffusive) transport and random matrixes Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Jun07
David J. Luitz
Out-of-time-order correlators in disordered quantum systems