Organizers

• Yonglong Xie (Rice University)
• Alex Thomson (University of California, Davis)
• Kuan-Sen Lin (Rice University)
• Fang Xie (Rice University)
• Maia G. Vergniory (U. Sherbrooke, Canada) — Scientific Advisor
• Qimiao Si (Rice University) — Scientific Advisor

Scope and Objectives

The premise of the proposed school is that now is an opportune time for junior researchers from the community of correlation physics to be exposed to topological aspects of physics, and likewise for those from the topology community to correlation physics. By introducing the basic concepts and showcasing the emerging frontiers, the school will educate a cohort of junior researchers, and, over the long run, help push the quantum matter field to confront the outstanding challenges and realize the enormous opportunities that develop at the intersection of strong correlations and topology.

Recent years have seen increasing recognition of the exciting potential in merging strong correlations beyond the single-particle picture and the topology of electronic wavefunctions. While our understanding of strongly correlated electronic systems has benefited from the research activities of materials such as quantum Hall, cuprate and heavy fermion systems, the emergence of topological semimetals, moiré materials and kagome metals has brought new surprises, puzzles, and challenges. These exciting developments have fueled the community working on quantum materials to develop new experimental methodologies to better characterize these systems, and posed new theoretical questions, such as the classification and generation of electronic topology in the strongly correlated regime and efficient, reliable numerical methods for simulating these systems.

The school will bring together a diverse pool of theoretical- and experimental-physics experts on various aspects of electronic correlation and topology to deliver lectures on the exciting progress made so far and to chart future directions. The school will discuss a variety of topics, including:

• Correlated systems from foundations to advanced studies
• Novel material platforms for topological flat-band systems
• Theoretical modeling of correlated topology
• Novel experimental probes of correlated topological phases
• Quantum entanglement in strongly correlated matter
• Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many-body systems

Program & Format

The school lasts three and a half days. Activities include lectures, frontier-topic seminars, and selected contributed talks. The program begins the morning of Tuesday, March 24 and ends by noon on Friday, March 27.

Invited Lecturers

• Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins U.) — Correlation physics: intro to experiment
• TBA — Correlation physics: intro to theory
• Joel E. Moore (UC Berkeley) — Topological band physics: an introduction
• Fiona Burnell (U. Minnesota) — Interacting topology: an introduction
• Dmitri (Dima) Efetov (LMU München) — Moiré materials: progress in experiment
• Philipp Werner (U. Fribourg) — Correlated systems out of equilibrium

More lecturers will be announced

Invited Seminar Speakers

• Pengcheng Dai (Rice U.)
• Alex Thomson (UC Davis)
• Maia G. Vergniory (U. Sherbrooke)
• Ming Yi (Rice U.)

More speakers to be announced

Registration

Please register online. Rice affiliates must use a Rice email to receive the discounted rate.

Fees

• $35Rice affiliates
• $100Non-Rice attendees

Housing

$420 (double occupancy, March 23–27). Single occupancy available upon request.