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Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2024: Schedule

Conference schedule:

all times given as UK summer time (BST)

Conference Schedule: Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2024

“Bridging Theory, Experiment and Computational Innovation in Quantum Materials”

Programme for talks delivered live and additionally broadcast online.

3-7th June 2024

Talks: 50 minutes+ 30 minutes discussion
Short Talks:  20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion
Location:   UCL Roberts Building, Room 421. For directions, see Venue & Acommodation.

Monday  3 June

09:50      Piers Coleman  “Opening Remarks”

10:00      Ali Yazdani: “Visualizing broken symmetry states in magical flat bands” [video]

11:20      Break

11:40      Amalia Coldea: “Quantum oscillations and unconventional superconductivity in iron chalcogenides under pressure” [recording not available]

13:00 – 14:30    —Lunch break—

14.30     Huanzhi Hu — (UCL): “Nature of the Topological Quantum Phase Transition in Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquids” [video] [slides]
15.00     Joseph Chapmann — (U. Kent): “Symmetry induced correlation length bifurcation of a frustrated 1D Ising model” [video] [slides]

Two 30 min talks

15.30      Break

15:50     Kai Sun: “New Pathways for Topological Flat Bands and Roton Condensate in Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Systems.” [video]

17:10     Jack Horner on the Corner 

Tuesday  4 June

10:00   Philip Phillips: “Solving the Mott Problem.” [video]

11:20     Break

11:40     Seamus Davis: “Andreev STM for order parameter symmetry and topological surface band visualization in UTe2” [recording not yet available]

13:00 – 14:30    —Lunch break—

14.30     Silvia Neri — (MPI FKF): “Non-equilibrium THz response of time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductors” [video]
15.00     Alex Eaton — (U Cambridge): “Quantum critical line encloses intensely magnetic field–resilient superconductivity in UTe2” [video] [slides]

15.30      Break

15:50      JP Paglione:  “Key issues in UTe2” [video]

17:10       Jack Horner on the Corner

Wednesday 5 June  

10:00     Cristian Batista: “Dynamics of quantum spin systems” [video]

11:20       Break

11:40       Satoru Nakatsuji: “Gigantic Transverse Response and Emergent Correlated Behavior in Topological Magnets” (this talk was rescheduled on short notice) [video]

13:00 – 14:30    —Lunch break—

14.30     Raymond Wiedmann — (MPI FKF): “Topological responses from gapped Weyl points in 2D altermagnets” [video] [slides]

15.00     Miguel Angel Sanchez Martinez — (U Bristol): “Exploring Pines’ Demon in Sr2RuO4” [recording not available]

15.30      Break

15:50      Hannah Price: “Quantum simulation with synthetic dimensions”. (this talk was rescheduled on short notice) [recording not available]

17:10       Jack Horner on the Corner

(Early dinner/break to get to Public lecture at ICL)

19:00     Ali Yazdani  Public lecture (Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley Building, Imperial College)
[recording not available]

Thursday 6 June

10:00    Frank Pollmann: “Entanglement of Gauge Theories with Higher-Form Symmetries”. [video] [slides]

11:20      Break

11:40     Alexei Tsvelik: “Fractionalized order: new developments”. [video] [slides]

13:00 – 14:30    —Lunch break—

14.30    Andrea Pizzi — (U Cambridge): “Quantum many-body scars from unstable periodic orbits”   [video] [slides]   

15.00    Nilotpal Chakroborty — (MPI PKS):  “Entanglement smectic and stripe order” [video] [slides]

15.30      Break

15:50      Manuel Brando: “Superconducting and quadrupolar-density-wave phases in CeRh2As2” [video]

17:10       Jack Horner on the Corner

Friday 7 June

10:00    Peter Abbamonte: “Observation of conformally invariant charge fluctuations in a strange metal”

11:20     Break

11:40     Roderich Moessner: “Fractionalisation and fractals in spin ice” (note schedule change) [recording not available]

13:00 – 14:30    —Lunch break—

14.30   Justin Schirmann — (Grenoble): “Geometry-Enforced Topological Chiral Fermions in Amorphous Chiral Metals” [video]
15.00   Thivan Gunawardana — (Imperial College): “Optimally Localised Single-Band Wannier Functions for 2D Chern Insulators” [video] [slides]

15.30     Break

15:50     Suchitra Sebastian: “Unconventional Insulators” (note schedule change) [recording not available]

17:10      Jack Horner on the Corner

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