SCHOOL ON ELECTRON
CORRELATIONS AND TOPOLOGY
Rice University, Houston
March 12 – March 15, 2024
Scope and Objectives:
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 on Electron Correlations and Topology educated a cohort of junior researchers and, over the long run, helped push the quantum matter field to confront outstanding challenges and realize the enormous opportunities that developed 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 brought together a diverse pool of theoretical and experimental physics experts on various aspects of electronic correlation and topology who delivered lectures on the exciting progress made so far and to chart future directions. The school discussed a variety of topics, including:
- Realization and braiding of anyons
- Novel material platforms for realizing topological flat band systems
- Theoretical modeling of correlated topology
- Quantum entanglement of strongly correlated matter
- Correlated systems from basic notions to advanced numerical studies
- Latest experimental progress on identifying new correlated topological phases.
Dates:
March 12-15, 2024
Location:
Rice University
Format:
In addition to long lectures, we incorporated several seminars on frontier topics and selected several contributed talks from contributed abstracts.
Lectures and seminars: 50 + 10 minutes
Short talk: 12 + 3 minutes
Program:
Link to PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ff6SYcNLvcTg713RswZbfMemymFvV67l/view?usp=sharing
Link to eQMA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eqmarice
Tuesday, March 12
Coffee, light breakfast, and registration (8:15 am-8:40 am)
08:50-09:00 Organizers - Welcome and opening remarks
09:00-10:00 Anton Burkov (Waterloo) - “Topological semimetals: Fundamentals and transport”
10:00-11:00 Suyang Xu (Harvard) - “Weyl and Dirac semimetals and their topological response Part I”
11:00-11:10 Group Photo
11:10-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 Qimiao Si (Rice) - “Weyl Kondo semimetals Part I”
12:20-12:30 Blitz poster preview (1 minute per poster)
12:30-02:00 Lunch and Poster Session
02:00-03:00 Ming Yi (Rice) - “Flat band in Bulk quantum materials”
03:00-04:00 Jianxin Zhu (LANL) - "Unravelling Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Systems: Foundations"
04:00-04:20 Coffee Break
04:20-04:35 Short talk: Shijun Sun (UC Santa Cruz) – “Interaction-disorder Duality and unconventional phase transitions”
04:35-05:35 Q&A and Discussion
Wednesday, March 13
Coffee, light breakfast (8:15am-8:50am)
09:00-10:00 Anton Burkov (Waterloo) - “Strong correlation phenomena in topological semimetals”
10:00-11:00 Suyang Xu (Harvard) - "Weyl and Dirac semimetals and their topological response Part II"
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 Mike Manfra (Purdue) - "Introduction to quasiparticle interferometry in the fractional quantum Hall regime”
12:20-12:30 Blitz poster preview (1 minute per poster)
12:30-02:00 Lunch and Poster Session
02:00-03:00 Qimiao Si (Rice) - "Weyl Kondo semimetals Part II”
03:00-04:00 Jianxin Zhu (LANL) - "Unravelling Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Systems: Successes and Challenges”
04:00-04:20 Coffee Break
04:20-04:35 Short talk: Roxanne Tutchton (LANL) – “Frist Principles Study of the Fermi Surface Topology of CeCu2Si2”
04:35-04:50 Short talk: Andrey Baydin (Rice) – “Interplay between phonon chirality and electronic band topology”
04:50-05:50 Seminar: Pontus Laurell (UTK) - "Entanglement in quantum magnets: states and witnesses”
Thursday, March 14
Coffee, light breakfast (8:15am-8:50am)
09:00-10:00 Rebecca Flint (Iowa State) - “Multi-channel Kondo Physics: from intrinsic criticality to unconventional orders Part I”
10:00-11:00 Fakher Assad (Wurzburg) - “Fermion Monte Carlo: the auxiliary field determinant algorithm”
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 Mike Manfra (Purdue) - “Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics”
12:20-12:30 Blitz poster preview (1 minute per poster)
12:30-02:00 Lunch and Poster Session
02:00-03:00 Yves Kwan (Princeton) - “A survey of strongly correlated phenomena in (super) moiré materials”
03:00-04:00 Seminar: Pengcheng Dai (Rice) - “Magnetism and charge orders in Kagome metals”
04:00-04:20 Coffee Break
04:20-04:35 Short talk: Christopher A. Lane (LANL) – “Coexistence of Dirac Fermions and Magnons in a Layered Two-Dimensional Semiquinoid Metal-Organic Framework ”
04:35-05:35 Q&A and Discussion
Friday, March 15
Coffee, light breakfast (8:15 am-8:50 am)
09:00-10:00 Rebecca Flint (Iowa State) - “Multi-channel Kondo Physics: From Intrinsic Criticality to Unconventional Orders Part II”
10:00-11:00 Fakher Assad (Wurzburg) - “Fermion Monte Carlo: the auxiliary field determinant algorithm”
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 Yonglong Xie (Rice) - “Fractional Chern insulators in moiré flat bands”
12:20-12:30 Concluding remarks
12:30 Lunch
Organizers:
Qimiao Si (Rice University)
Shouvik Sur (Rice University)
Yonglong Xie (Rice University)