Program – Les Houches Summer School, 02 – 13 September 2019

“Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter Physics”

 

Lectures:

Erez Berg  — Emil Bergholtz — Subhro Bhattacharjee —  Jennifer Cano — Claudio Castelnovo  — Anushya Chandran —  Pierre Delplace  — Claudia Felser —  Mark-Oliver Goerbig  —  Adolfo Grushin  —  George Jackeli — Christopher Laumann — Vedika Khemani  —  Philip Moll  —  Adam Nahum  —  Titus Neupert  —  Anne Nielsen  —  Sid Parameswaran  —  Didier Poilblanc  —  Sagar Vijay  —  Rebeka Ribeiro-Palau  — Steve Simon — Dam Thanh Son —  Manisha Thakurathi — Ruben Verresen  —  Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy —  Vincenzo Vitelli  —  Julia Yeomans

Program – 1st week (pdf):

Tue 3 Sep
08:45-10:45 Steve Simon: Topological quantum computing
11:15-12:15 Ruben Verresen: Gapless topological phases in 1D
13:45-15:45 Julia Yeomans: Topology in active matter – talk pdf
16:15-17:15 Jennifer Cano: Topological Quantum Chemistry – talk pdf
Wed 4 Sep
08:45-10:45 free
11:15-12:15 free
16:00-17:00 Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy: Cavity optomagnonics with magnetic textures – talk pdf
17:15-19:15 Philip Moll: Quantum oscillations – talk pdf
late: poster session
Thu 5 Sep
08:45-10:45 Sagar Vijay: Fractons
11:15-12:15 Chris Laumann: Cerenkov radiation in a topological magnet – talk pdf
15:30-16:30 Chris Laumann: Cerenkov radiation in a topological magnet – talk pdf
17:00-19:00 Emil Bergholtz: Topology in non-Hermitian systems – talk pdf
Fri 6 Sep
08:45-10:45 Dam Son: Field theory of composite Fermions – talk pdf
11:15-12:15 Anne Nielsen: FQHE and CFTs
13:45-15:45 Claudia Felser: Topological materials – talk pdf
16:15-17:15 Subhro Bhattacharjee: Topology in an electron glass – talk pdf

Program – 2nd week (pdf):

Mon 9 Sep
08:45-10:45 Erez Berg: Majoranas and fractionalized Majoranas – talk pdf
11:15-12:15 Sid Parameswaran: Non-symmorphic topology – talk pdf
13:45-14:45 Sid Parameswaran: Non-symmorphic topology
15:15-17:15 Adam Nahum: Deconfined quantum phase transitions – talk pdf
17:45-18:45 Claudio Castelnovo: Entanglement negativity in the toric code

Tue 10 Sep
08:45-10:45 Anuhsya Chandran: Quasi-periodic topological systems
11:15-12:15 Manisha Thakurathi: Majorana fermions in Rashba double nanowires – talk pdf
15:45-17:45 Adolfo Grushin: Topological semimetals – talk1 pdf / talk2 pdf
18:15-19:15 Ribeiro-Palau: Graphene experiments
late: poster session

Wed 11 Sep
08:45-10:45 Vedika Khemani: Discrete time crystals
11:15-12:15 Vincenzo Vitelli: Topological metamaterials
15:30-16:30 Vincenzo Vitelli: Topological metamaterials
17:00-19:00 Titus Neupert: Higher-order topology – talk pdf

Thu 12 Sep
08:45-10:45 Roderich Moessner: Magnetism and magnetic interactions of Kitaev materials

11:15-12:15 Pierre Delplace: Topological photonics
13:45-19:00 Free time

Fri 13 Sep
08:45-10:45 Mark Goerbig: Graphene – talk pdf
11:00-13:00 Didier Poilblanc: Topological states in PEPS – talk pdf