Quantum Theory and Simulation Discussion Group, 2019-20

Term 1

  • 26/09/19 – Introduction to the group and welcome for new members
  • 03/10/19 – Sam Carr – Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: an Overview (Part 1)
  • 10/10/19 – Sam Carr – Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: an Overview (Part 2)
  • 15/10/19 (note Tuesday date for this additional event for starting research students) – Sam Carr and Jorge Quintanilla – Quantum Many-body Theory Boot Camp [Lecture notes and problems]
  • 17/10/19 – Sam Carr – Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: an Overview (Part 3)
  • 24/10/19 – Emma Pugh – Low-temperature Techniques
  • 31/10/19 – Larissa Veiga (UCL) – Pressure-induced dimerization and collapse of magnetism in the hyperhoneycomb iridate beta-Li2IrO3.
  • 07/11/19 – Sudeep Ghosh – Review talk: Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces in Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductors [abstract]
  • 14/11/19 – Leon Schoonderwoerd – Introduction to Tensor Networks, Matrix Product States, and finding distentanglers [abstract]
  • 21/11/19 – Silvia Ramos – Large Facilites as Probes of Matter (Part 1)
  • 28/11/19 – Silvia Ramos – Large Facilites as Probes of Matter (Part 2) + XMaS User Meeting Talk
  • 05/12/19 – Dominique Chu (School of Computing) – Stochastic Thermodynamics of Computation and Translation
  • 12/12/19 – Sam Carr – Non-interacting fermions and Slater Determinants: things I feel I should have known but didn’t

Term 2

  • 16/01/20 – Paul Strange – Quantum Surfing
  • 23/01/20 – Prof Lode Pollet (Ludwig Maximilian Universität München) – Discerning multiple order parameters with interpretable machines: towards the automation of phase classification [abstract]
  • 30/01/20 – Leon Schoonderwoerd – Quantum Hall physics in the Harper-Hofstadter model
  • 06/02/20 – Jorge Quintanilla – Machine Learning and Neutron Scattering
  • 13/02/20 – Silvia Ramos – Iridium Telluride
  • 20/02/20 – Abol Bayat (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) – Quantum Simulation of the Ground State of Many-Body Systems [abstract]
  • 27/02/20 – Elizabeth Blackburn (University of Lund) – Post-colloquium discussion
  • 04/03/20 – Additional PQM SeminarDr Bernhard Frank, MPI-PKS Dresden: “Thermodynamics of spin-imbalanced Fermi gases near the unitary limit” – note unusual time and location: Wednesday 10am, room KENSR10.
  • 05/03/20 – Reena Gupta (University of Bristol) – Comparison of Unitary and Non-unitary Triplet Pairings in Sr2RuO4
  • 12/03/20 – Jorge Quintanilla – Quantum Physics without Operators (Part 1): The Feynman Path Integral
  • 19/03/20 – Jorge Quintanilla – Quantum Physics without Operators (Part 2): The Feynman Path Integral
  • 26/03/20 – Jorge Quintanilla – Quantum Physics without Operators (Part 3): Functional Integrals over Grassmann Fields [Lecture Notes]
  • 02/04/20 – Gunnar Moller and Tym Tula – Machine Learning for Many-Body Quantum Systems: General Introduction and Netket Tutorial [Jupyter examples: Notebook 1, Notebook 2 – for security reasons, theese links work for local users only]

Term 3