ESI Programme: Topological Phases of Quantum Matter


Schedule

Monday, September 8, 2014

09:00 Opening
09:10 - 10:00 Yosi Avron
Braiding fluxes in Pauli Hamiltonians
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  • 10:10 - 11:00 Jakob Yngvason
    Incompressibility estimates in the Laughlin phase
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  • 11:10 - 11:40 Coffee Break
    11:40 - 12:30 Robert Seiringer
    Validity of spin wave theory for the quantum Heisenberg model
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  • 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 14:50 Sebastian Diehl
    Dissipatively induced quantum phases of atomic fermions
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  • 15:00 - 15:50 Johannes Kellendonk
    Topological interpretation of Levinson's theorem
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  • 16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
    16:20 - 17:10 Alexander Altland
    Quantum criticality of the topological Anderson insulator
    17:20 - 18:00 Ricardo Kennedy
    Homotopy theory of topological insulators
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  • Tuesday, September 9, 2014

    09:00 - 09:50 Jean Bellissard
    Periodic approximant to aperiodic Hamiltonian
    10:00 - 10:50 Paul Fendley
    Parafermions and topological order
    11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
    11:30 - 12:20 Karsten Flensberg
    Tunneling spectroscopy of Majorana bound states
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 14:50 Reinhold Egger
    Topological Kondo effect
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  • 15:00 - 15:50 Alan Huckleberry
    Constructions in low-dimensional complex geometry related to topological insulators and their symmetry classes
    16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
    16:20 - 17:10 Simon Trebst
    Chiral spin liquids, network models, and fractional quantum Hall states
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  • 17:20 - 18:00 Maria Hermanns
    Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids
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  • Wednesday, September 10, 2014

    09:00 - 09:50 Christoph Schweigert
    Topological surface defects, symmetries and dualities
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  • 10:00 - 10:50 Zheng-Cheng Gu
    Emergence of p+ip superconductivity in 2D strongly correlated Dirac fermions
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  • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
    11:30 - 12:20 Gian-Michele Graf
    Bulk-boundary duality for topological insulators
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  • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
    14:30 - 18:30 Organized Social Event
    19:00 - Conference Dinner

    Thursday, September 11, 2014

    09:00 - 09:50 Xiao-Liang Qi
    Generalized Kitaev models and slave genons
    10:00 - 10:50 Achim Rosch
    Skyrmions and emergent monopoles in chiral magnets
    11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
    11:30 - 12:20 Immanuel Bloch
    Probing and controlling topological Bloch bands using ultracold quantum gases
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 14:50 Thomas Quella
    Topological aspects of SU(N) magnetism and its cold atom realization
    15:00 - 15:50 Anton Akhmerov
    Breaking Kramers degeneracy by superconducting phase differences
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  • 16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
    16:20 - 17:10 Jürg Fröhlich
    Gauge theory of states of matter - old and new (PDF-2) (PDF-3) (PDF-4) (PDF-5)
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  • 17:20 - 18:00 Roberto Bondesan
    Lattice conformal fields at quantum Hall transitions

    Friday, September 12, 2014

    09:00 - 09:50 Bruno Nachtergaele
    Invariants for gapped ground state phases in dimensions one and higher
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  • 10:00 - 10:50 Eddy Ardonne
    Constructing critical spin chains using modular invariance
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  • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
    11:30 - 12:20 Hermann Schulz-Baldes
    Invariants of disordered topological insulators
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 14:50 Heinz Siedentop
    Dipoles in 2d have infinitely many bound states
    15:00 - 15:50 Ilya Eremin
    Proximity-induced magnetization dynamics, interaction effects, and phase transitions on a topological surface
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  • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee

    Monday, September 1, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Anton Akhmerov
    Reducing and increasing the dimensionality of topological insulators
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Duncan Haldane
    Quantum geometry of the fractional quantum Hall fluids and other topological matter (Part 2)

    Tuesday, September 2, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Adam Sawicki
    n-particle quantum statistics on graphs
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Thomas Quella
    Topological phases of fractionalized Majorana fermions (parafermions) in one dimension

    Wednesday, September 3, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Guiseppe de Nittis
    Differential geometry for time-reversal symmetric Bloch bundles
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Jan Carl Budich
    Dissipative Chern insulators

    Thursday, September 4, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Jürgen Fuchs
    Twist defects in topological multilayer systems
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Kasper Duivenvoorden
    Topological quantum error correcting codes
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  • Friday, September 5, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Philipp Werner
    Tuning material properties by light

    Monday, August 25, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Zheng-Cheng Gu
    Classification of symmetry-protected topological phases in interacting fermion and boson systems
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Jürg Fröhlich
    The growth of cosmic magnetic fields (PDF-1) (Manifesto)
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  • Tuesday, August 26, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Hermann Schulz-Baldes
    Indices of Fredholm operators with symmetries
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Abhishek Roy
    Defects in lattice anyon models

    Wednesday, August 27, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Duncan Haldane
    Quantum geometry of the fractional quantum Hall fluids and other topological matter (Part 1)
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Jerome Dubail
    Tensor network states and chiral phases of matter

    Thursday, August 28, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Max Lein
    An exhaustive classification of photonic topological insulators
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Hong-Hao Tu
    Projected entangled-pair states for chiral topological phases
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  • Friday, August 29, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Alan Carey
    Spectral flow and operators with essential spectrum
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Xiao-Liang Qi
    Layer construction of 3D topological states and string braiding statistics
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  • Monday, August 18, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Victor Gurarie
    Hall viscosity, shift, and topological invariants
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Gregory W. Moore
    Lecture 1: Quantum symmetries and the 3-fold Way

    Tuesday, August 19, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Joel E. Moore
    Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields in the Brillouin zone for insulators and metals
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Gregory W. Moore
    Lecture 2: Phases of gapped systems and the 10-fold Way

    Wednesday, August 20, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Gregory W. Moore
    Lecture 3: Free fermions, the Altland-Zirnbauer classification, and Bott periodicity
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Nicholas Read
    Hall viscosity
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  • Thursday, August 21, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Gregory W. Moore
    Lecture 4: K-theory classification and application to topological band theory
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Maissam Barkeshli
    Extrinsic defects and possible new experimental probes of topological order
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  • Friday, August 22, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Andreas Ludwig
    Spin liquids on the Kagome lattice: chiral topological, and gapless non-Fermi liquid phase
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Petr Horava
    Multicritical symmetry breaking and resistivity of strange metals

    Monday, August 11, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Xiao-Gang Wen
    Quantum entanglement, topological order, and tensor category theory (III)
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Michael Stone
    Berry curvature, spin and anomalous velocity
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  • Tuesday, August 12, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Jeffrey Teo
    Twist liquids and gauging anyonic symmetries
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Taylor L. Hughes
    Spatial symmetry protected topological phases and geometry
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  • Wednesday, August 13, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Emil Prodan
    The non-commutative geometry of the complex classes of topological insulators: analysis and simulation
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Norbert Schuch
    Topological order and chirality in Projected Entangled Pair States

    Thursday, August 14, 2014

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
    11:00 - 12:30 Terry Loring
    Joint pseudospectra and the K-theory of local energy gaps
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:30 Shinsei Ryu
    Hydrodynamic effective field theories of topological insulators
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  • Friday, August 15, 2014

    Bank Holiday (Mariä Himmelfahrt)

    Monday, August 4, 2014

    09:00 Registration
    09:20 Opening
    09:30 - 10:30 Markus Morgenstern
    Topological properties in solids probed by experiment
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  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Yosi Avron
    Platonic quantum Hall effect: Chern number
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 15:30 Nicholas Read
    Topological phases of matter: 1. Quantum Hall effect and Laughlin states
    15:30 - 16:00 Break
    16:00 - 17:30 Shinsei Ryu
    Periodic table of topological insulators and superconductors: invariants built from Bloch wave functions
    18:00 - 19:00 Reception

    Tuesday, August 5, 2014

    09:00 - 10:30 Yosi Avron
    Platonic quantum Hall effect: Fredholm index
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  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Jean Bellissard
    Noncommutative geometry approach to topological invariants in condensed matter physics (I)
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  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 15:30 Shinsei Ryu
    Periodic table of topological insulators and superconductors: Anderson delocalization at the boundary
    15:30 - 16:00 Break
    16:00 - 17:30 Nicholas Read
    Topological phases of matter: 2. Conformal field theory and non-abelian statistics

    Wednesday, August 6, 2014

    09:30 - 10:30 Charles M. Marcus
    Majorana modes in semiconductor nanowires?
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Frank Verstraete
    Classifying topological states using quantum tensor networks (I)

    Thursday, August 7, 2014

    09:00 - 10:30 Jean Bellissard
    Noncommutative geometry approach to topological invariants in condensed matter physics (II)
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Frank Verstraete
    Classifying topological states using quantum tensor networks (II)
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 15:30 Nicholas Read
    Topological phases of matter: 3. p+ip paired states and Majorana zero modes
    15:30 - 16:00 Break
    16:00 - 17:30 Shinsei Ryu
    Periodic table of topological insulators and superconductors: K-theory; interactions

    Friday, August 8, 2014

    09:00 - 10:30 Jean Bellissard
    Noncommutative geometry approach to topological invariants in condensed matter physics (III)
    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Frank Verstraete
    Classifying topological states using quantum tensor networks (III)
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
    14:00 - 15:30 Xiao-Gang Wen
    Quantum entanglement, topological order, and tensor category theory (I)
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  • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
    16:00 - 17:30 Xiao-Gang Wen
    Quantum entanglement, topological order, and tensor category theory (II)
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