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]
15.30 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]
15.30 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