Synthetic Topological Matter

Organizers:

T. Grass (DIPC), S. Jochim (U. Heidelberg), B. Julía-Díaz (U. Barcelona), L. Tarruell (ICFO), C. Weitenberg (TU Dortmund)


Fascinating phenomena arise from topological quantum systems, including robust transport and exotic quasiparticles. Progress in the engineering of quantum systems has opened the door towards tailor-made topological matter, such as synthetic fractional quantum Hall states of photons and atoms, atomic Floquet Chern insulators, topological gauge theories with cold atoms, topological spin liquids with Rydberg atoms and with trapped ions– to name just a few recent experimental highlights in this very active field. The SYNTOM workshop will bring together ~60 experimental and theoretical scientists of the field to explore new opportunities for creating, exploiting, and understanding topological quantum matter.

The program includes invited talks from the list of speakers below. In addition, all participants will be given the opportunity to present their research during a poster session or contributed talks. Abstracts for contributions will be collected at a later stage.

List of Topics

- Quantum simulation of topological systems
- Synthetic fractional quantum Hall systems
- Cold atoms with artificial gauge fields
- Anyons and non-Abelian quantum statistics
- Topological field theories

Invited Speakers

- Monika Aidelsburger (MPQ) *
- Alessio Celi (UAB)
- Nigel Cooper (Cambridge)
- André Eckhardt (TU Berlin)
- Nathan Goldman (LKB) *
- Mohammad Hafezi (JQI) *
- Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO)
- Anne Nielsen (Aarhus)
- Diego Porras (IFF, CSIC Madrid)
- Tomoki Ozawa (Riken)
- Cécile Repellin (Grenoble) *
- Ian Spielman (NIST, Maryland) *

* to be confirmed

Conference Poster




Sponsors


Registration fee information

The registration fee for this conference is 300 eur.

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The registration fee must be paid to the account of the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual after your application has been accepted.

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*Cancellation Policy*
A 30 euro charge will be applied for cancellations made up to 10 days before the conference start date.
A no refund policy will be applied to cancellations made after this date.


Bus transportation

The center provides free buses:
From Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 686, Metro: L3 Palau Reial at 15:00h (Note that the bus stops opposite University of Barcelona, Facultat de Física i Química)

From Barcelona airport ('El Prat', Terminal T2A: on leaving exit, turn left and you will find a police building called 'Mossos d'Esquadra'.
Cross the road using the zebra crossing and turn left. The bus will stop there) at 15:30h.

Return buses:
From Benasque to Barcelona airport and then university, departure at 9:00h.
The trip by bus to Barcelona takes 4-5h. approximately. The trip by car only takes 3h 30m.

Bus trajectories and dates:
- Barcelona-Benasque, Aug 31.
- Benasque-Barcelona, Sep 06.


Registration & accommodation

Application deadline is Jul 05


Further Information.

  • List of participants.
  • Scientific program.
  • Pictures