Tuesday seminar
The seminar takes place on Tuesdays at 11:00am in our seminar room (Elings Hall 2250), unless otherwise noted below.Current schedule
Fall 2011 schedule
12/12 Ady Stern, Weizmann
Fractional Topological Insulators in two and three dimensions
12/8 Roger Mong, Berkeley
Quantum transport on the surface of weak topological insulators
12/6 Roger Melko, Waterloo
Spin liquid and Deconfined Criticality in a Kagome Lattice Bose-Hubbard Model
12/5 Xie Chen, MIT
Symmetry protected topological orders and their protected gapless edge excitation
11/22 Ville Lahtinen, Nordita
Topological liquid nucleation induced by vortex-vortex interactions in Kitaev's honeycomb model
11/21 Yi Zhang, Berkeley
Topological order, quasi-particle statistics and braiding from ground state entanglement
11/17 Bryan Clark, Princeton
From the Honeycomb to the Kagome: What can variational wave-functions teach us about spin liquids and how can we go beyond them?
11/16 Michael Mulligan, MIT
A Theoretical Realization of a Fractional Quantized Hall Nematic
11/15 Daniel Berwick-Evans, UC Berkeley
From Topological to Supersymmetric: Sigma Models and Gauge Fixing
10/25 Ronny Thomale, Stanford
New paths to unconventional topological superconductivity
9/27 Daniel Berwick-Evans, UC Berkeley
9/23 Ying Liu, Penn State
New experimental results from superconducting Sr2RuO4 microstructures
9/6 Eliot Kapit, Cornell
Non-Abelian Braiding of Lattice Bosons
8/26 Reinhard Noack, Marburg
Entanglement Entropy and Mutual Information in the Density Matrix Renormalization Group
Spring 2011 schedule
4/5 Roman Lutchyn, Station Q
Prospecting for Elusive Majorana Particles in nanowires
4/19 Anton Kapustin, Caltech
Boundaries and domain walls in abelian Chern-Simons theory
5/3 Victor Vakaryuk, Argonne National Lab
Half-quantum vortices: Have they finally been observed?
Results of recent cantilever magnetometry measurements in Sr2RuO4 as seen by a theorist.
5/10 Chris Laumann, Harvard
Topologically protected quantum state transfer in a chiral spin liquid
5/17 Kai Schmidt, TU Dortmund
Effective models for spin liquid phases in Hubbard models
5/19 Leonid Glazman, Yale
Interference of Quantum Phase Slips in a Fluxonium Qubit
6/14 Miles Stoudenmire, UC Irvine
Interaction Effects in Topological Superconducting Wires
6/21 Helmut Katzgraber, TAMU
Understanding the stability of topologically-protected quantum computing proposals using spin glasses
7/14 Vladimir Korepin, Stony Brook
A Model of Anyons in One Dimension. Correlation Functions
7/18 Felix von Oppen, FU Berlin
Topological phases and Majorana end states in disordered quantum wires
Winter 2011 schedule
1/11 Claire Levaillant, Caltech
1/13 Taylor Hughes, UIUC
Anomalies and Torsion in Condensed Matter Systems
1/18 Christian Hagendorf, Virginia
Ground-state properties of a supersymmetric fermion chain
2/3 Jiannis Pachos, Leeds
Bringing order through disorder: Localisation of errors in topological quantum memories
3/8 Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
Entanglement Spectra in Condensed Matter Physics
3/15 Liza Huijse, Harvard
Ground state properties of a supersymmetric model for lattice fermions
3/17 Hubert Saleur, USC
Sigma models on super targets and Temperley Lieb algebras
Seminars 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007.