VBFF Symposium on Extreme Quantum Materials
November 9, 2023
Scope and Objectives:
This Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) launch symposium featured research that pertains to materials physics, with an emphasis on strongly correlated quantum materials. It showcased recent exciting developments on this broad subject and, equally important, highlighted opportunities for future research and for building a strong community of interactions and collaborations in this general area.
There were a set of stimulating research talks presented from a variety of perspectives and in an informal and interactive atmosphere. The audience was comprised of graduate students, postdocs and more senior researchers.
Venue: Moody Center, Rice University, 2nd Floor
Coffee, light refreshments and registration (9:45am-10:15am)
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10:15-10:35 |
Welcome and opening remarks |
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Amy Dittmar, Provost |
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Chris Johns-Krull, Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy |
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10:35 |
Group Photo |
Session I
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10:45-11:15 |
Ming Yi (Rice U.) – “Emergent phases in geometrically frustrated quantum materials” |
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11:15-11:45 |
Qimiao Si (Rice U.) – “Strongly correlated metals for electronic topology: Introduction to the VBFF project” |
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11:45-12:15 |
Randy Hulet (Rice U.) – “Quantum simulation with cold atoms: from the Hubbard model to the Luttinger liquid" |
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12:15-1:15 |
Lunch (provided on site) |
Session II
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1:15-1:45 |
Silke Paschen (TU Vienna, Austria) – “Extreme responses of heavy fermion systems” |
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1:45-2:15 |
Brian Maple (UCSD) - "Exploring the bulk and surface states of the correlated d-electron small gap semiconductor FeSi with pressure and magnetic field” |
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2:15-2:45 |
Boris Yakobson (Rice U.) - "Defining shapes of two-dimensional crystals with undefinable edge energies” |
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2:45-3:15 |
Pengcheng Dai (Rice U.) - "Competing itinerant and local spin interactions in kagome metal FeGe” |
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3:15-3:45 |
Coffee break |
Session III
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3:45-4:15 |
Maia Vergniory (MPI Dresden, Germany/Donostia IPC, Spain) - “Designing topological materials” |
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4:15-4:45 |
Han Pu (Rice U.) - “Building tight-binding models with flat bands” |
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4:45-5:15 |
Doug Natelson (Rice U.) - "Shot noise in a strange metal” |
