EMMI Workshop: Synthetic Topological Matter
(Benasque Science Center, Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2025)

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

- Christoph Braun (LMU)
- Alessio Celi (UAB)
- Nigel Cooper (Cambridge)
- Olesia Dmytruk (École Polytechnique Palaiseau)
- André Eckhardt (TU Berlin)
- Nathan Goldman (LKB)
- Mohammad Hafezi (JQI)
- Joyce Kwan (Harvard)
- Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO)
- Anne Nielsen (Aarhus)
- Diego Porras (IFF, CSIC Madrid)
- Tomoki Ozawa (Riken)
- Cécile Repellin (Grenoble)
- Rodrigo Rosa-Medina (TU Wien)

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Call for participation

Abstract submission is closed

Abstract deadline was Aug 18
Decisions on abstracts will be notified on Aug 20

Registration fee information