Benasque Symposium on Topological Quantum Information
2013, Feb 12 -- Feb 16
Organizers:
S. Iblisdir (U. Barcelona), J. Pachos (U. Leeds), B. Paredes (U. Autónoma de Madrid), D. Poilblanc (CNRS, U. Toulouse)
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Wednesday, February 13
Thursday, February 14
Friday, February 15
| Morning session I - Cold atoms | |
| Registration | |
| Engineering Dirac points with ultracold fermions in a tunable honeycomb optical lattice | |
| L. Tarruell | |
| Atomic Quantum Simulation of U(N) and SU(N) Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories | |
| E. Rico | |
Morning session II - Topological Insulators | |
| Condensate-induced transitions and critical spin chains | |
| V. Lahtinen | |
| Topological Phase Transitions in the Golden String-Net Model | |
| M. Schulz | |
Afternoon session I - Q. Computing | |
| Many-body models based on quantum double algebras | |
| C. Brell | |
| Robustness of quantum memories based on Majorana zero modes | |
| M. Rizzi | |
Afternoon session II - FQHE/TI | |
| Fractional Quantum Hall Effect of Lattice Bosons Near Commensurate Flux | |
| L. Hormozi | |
| Quantum Simulation Architecture for Lattice Bosons in Arbitrary, Tunable External Gauge Fields | |
| E. Kapit |
Thursday, February 14
| Morning session III - Classification of phases | |
| Topological phases and tensor networks: The role of symmetries | |
| N. Schuch | |
| Commuting Pauli Hamiltonians as maps between free modules | |
| J. Haah | |
Morning session IV - Cold atoms | |
| Cold bosonic systems under strong gauge fields as simulators. The Hall response function | |
| N. Barberán | |
| Bosonic Fractional Quantum Hall States in Rotating Optical Lattices: Projective Symmetry Group Analysis | |
| T. Duric | |
| Poster Session | |
Friday, February 15
| Morning session V - Quantum Hall Effect | ||
| Topological characterization of fractional quantum Hall ground states from microscopic Hamiltonians | ||
| F. Pollman | ||
| Fractional Chern Insulators: High temperature Quantum Hall states and beyond | ||
| E. Bergholtz | ||
Morning session VI - Classification of phases | ||
| Local topological order inhibits thermal stability in 2D | ||
| O. Landon-Cardinal | ||
| Gapless Hamiltonians for non-injective PEPS | ||
| C. Fernández-González | ||
Afternoon session III - Topological Insulators | ||
| Rydberg-Atom Quantum Simulation and Chern Number Characterization of a Topological Mott Insulator | ||
| A. Dauphin | ||
| Statistical Topological Insulators | ||
| J. Edge | ||
| Exactly soluble lattice models for non-abelian states of matter in 2 dimensions | ||
| M. Koch-Janusz | ||
Afternoon session IV - Quantum computation | ||
| Robustness of 2d topological order and cluster states using infinite-PEPS | ||
| R. Orus | ||
| Enhancing Memory Times using Domain Walls on Surface Codes | ||
| B. Brown | ||
- This conference is partly founded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad with the grant ACI-PRO-2011-1096. - Esta conferencia está financiada parcialmente por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad gracias a la ayuda ACI-PRO-2011-1096
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This session has received financial support from the following institutions:
