Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

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Quantum Matter

2014, Jun 15 -- Jun 27

Organizers:
Belén Paredes (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Madrid)
Guifré Vidal (Perimeter Institute, Canada)

Download the pdf version of the program here.

Download the abstracts of the talks here.


Monday, June 16

  • 10:00h
  • Ergodicity, entanglement, and many-body localization
     Dmitry Abanin
  • 11:30h
  • TBA
     Norbert Schuch
  • 15:30h
  • Numerical approaches
     Frank Verstraete & Andreas Läuchli
  • 16:30h
  • Coffee
     

    Tuesday, June 17
    • 10:00h
    • Entanglement Spectroscopy of Quantum Matter
       Andreas Läuchli
    • 11:30h
    • Gauge fields and topological phases with cold atoms: Baby, you can drive my cloud!
       Nathan Goldman
    • 15:30h
    • Topological insulators and superconductors
       Joel Moore

      Wednesday, June 18
      • 10:00h
      • Supersymmetric quantum wires
         Kareljan Schoutens
      • 11:30h
      • TBA
         F. Verstraete
      • 15:30h
      • Experimental challenges
         Immanuel Bloch

        Thursday, June 19
        • 10:00h
        • TBA
           Michael Levin
        • 11:30h
        • TBA
           Joel Moore
        • 15:30h
        • TBA
           Eugene Demler
        • 17:00h
        • TBA
           Immanuel Bloch

          Friday, June 20
          • 10:00h
          • Chiral spin liquid and emergent anyons in a Kagome lattice Mott insulator
             Lukasz Cincio
          • 11:30h
          • TBA
             Anushya Chandran
          • 16:30h
          • Coffee & POSTER SESSION
             

            Monday, June 23
            • 10:00h
            • Symmetries and boundary theories for chiral Projected Entangled Pair State
               Ignacio Cirac
            • 11:30h
            • Probing quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level
               Manuel Endres
            • 15:30h
            • Classification of quantum phases
               Xiao-Gang Wen

              Tuesday, June 24
              • 09:30h
              • TBA
                 Duncan Haldane
              • 10:30h
              • Coffee break
                 
              • 11:00h
              • TBA
                 Matthew Fisher
              • 12:00h
              • TBA
                 Ehud Altman
              • 15:30h
              • Highly entangled quantum states of matter – a general theory of gapped quantum liquids
                 Xiao-Gang Wen
              • 17:00h
              • Topological order from parafermions
                 Paul Fendley

                Wednesday, June 25
                • 09:30h
                • Applications of PEPS to condensed matter: some simple examples
                   Didier Poilblanc
                • 11:00h
                • TBA
                   Erez Berg
                • 12:00h
                • TBA
                   Anushya Chandran
                • 15:30h
                • Many-body localization
                   Dmitry Abanin & Ehud Altman

                  Thursday, June 26
                  • 10:00h
                  • Quantum criticality of the topological Anderson insulator
                     Alexander Altland
                  • 11:00h
                  • TBA
                     Michail Lukin
                  • 15:30h
                  • Spin Bose metals
                     Matthew Fisher
                  • 16:00h
                  • Conclusions and Outlook
                     

                    This session has received financial support from the following institutions:

                    • logo CSIC
                    • Gobierno de Aragón
                    • Ministerio de educación y ciencia
                    • DPH
                    • Universidad de Zaragoza
                    • Ayuntamiento de Benasque

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