Quantum Theory and Simulation Discussion Group, 2018-19

Locations: TERM 1: Chipperfield Extension, Seminar Room 1 (CHXSR1); TERM 2: Chipperfield Building, Seminar Room 5 (CHSR5). TERM 3: Ingram 110 (Weeks 25-28) and Ingram 108 (Weeks 29-30).

27 Sep 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Language of Many-Body Theory (part 1) [lecture notes]

4 Oct 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Language of Many-Body Theory (part 2) [lecture notes]

11 Oct 2018: Catherine Pepin – (post-colloquium discussion)

18 October 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Language of Many-Body Theory (part 3) [lecture notes]

25 October 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Unstable Fermi Liquid (part 4) [lecture notes]

1 November 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Unstable Fermi Liquid (part 5) [lecture notes]

8 Nov 2018: Felix Flicker (Oxford) – Time Quasi-crystals

15 November 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Unstable Fermi Liquid (part 6) [lecture notes]

22 November 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – (impromptu) What makes BCS theory so great, and how can we raise to the challenge?

29 November 2018: Brief introductions of Members of the Group

6 December 2018: Brief introductions of Members of the Group

13 December 2018: Chris Hooley (St Andrews) – Conformal Bootstrap

(Winter break)

17 January 2019: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – (impromptu) Introduction to quantum computing with the IBM Quantum Experience

24 January 2019: Gunnar Möller (Kent) – Topological order: new states and new probes

31 January 2019: Gunnar Möller (Kent) – Topological order: new states and new probes (cont’d)

7 February 2019: Abolfazl Bayat (UCL) – Measurement quench in many-body systems [abstract]

14 February 2019: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Complex superconducting order

21 February 2019: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Complex superconducting order (cont’d)

28 February 2019: No Discussion Group this week

7 March 2019: Sam T. Carr (Kent) – Emergent topological properties in one-dimensional metals

14 March 2019: No Discussion Group this week – note however the Stephen Gray Lecture at 3pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2

21 March 2019: No Discussion Group this week – FMG Working Group Meeting

28 March 2019: Leon Schoonderwoerd (Kent) – Interaction-driven Quantum Hall plateau transition in the Hofstadter model

4 April 2019: Adam Baskerville (Sussex) – The quantum mechanical three-particle problem: Where Physics meets Chemistry

(spring break)

9 May 2019: Gunnar Möller (impromptu) – Introduction to Composite Fermion Theory

16 May 2019: Nikitas Gidopoulos (Durham) – (post-colloquium discussion)

23 May: Sam T. Carr and Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Ferromagnetism, triplet pairing and Hund’s rules

30 May: No discussion group

6 June: Johannes Hofmann (Cambridge) – TBC

13 June: TBA