Physics of Quantum Materials Discussion Group, 2025-2026

8/10/2025 – 10am: Prof. Séamus Davis, Oxford University
15/10/2025 – 10am: Introduction to the Group and Welcome to new group members
22/10/2025 – 10am: Sam Carr – “The Social Electron: 100 years of Quantum Mechanics applied to Materials”
29/10/2025 – 10am: Gunnar Möller – “Introduction to Quantum Many-Body Physics”
5/11/2025 – 11am: Gunnar Möller – “Introduction to Quantum Many-Body Physics (continued)”
12/11/2025 – 11am: Ben Blain – “Simulation of quantum solitons with superconducting qubits“
19/11/2025 – 11am: Joseph Chapman – “A study of critical phenomena in a bilayer Ising model”
26/11/2025 – 11am: Sam Carr – “Simple analytical solution for the 2D Ising Model on a Square Lattice”
3/12/2025 – 11am: Peter Drmota, Oxford University – “Remote entanglement for distributed quantum information processing and operational quantum advantage“
10/12/2025 – 11am: Felix Flicker, University of Bristol – “Witnessing the Quantum Spin Liquid in Herbertsmithite“
ADDITIONAL SEMINAR – NOTE DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: Friday 12/12/2025 – 10am, Howard Rogers Room (Ingram 234): Chris Hooley, Coventry University – Why doesn’t the surface of the superconductor Sr2RuO4 superconduct?

14/01/2026 – no seminar
21/01/2026 – Frank Wang (School of Computing) – Magneton-Mediated Quantum Computing
28/01/2026 – Philip Kitson, “Rydberg atom Networks for Quantum Technologies“.
04/02/2026 – Gavin Mountjoy (PQM) – What should undergraduates be taught about Quantum Physics?
11/02/2026 – Riccardo Rossi (EPFL Lausanne) – “Majorana Diagrammatics for Quantum Spin-1/2 Models”
18/02/2026 – Tobias Hartung (Northeastern London) – “On Convergence and Efficiency of Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution”
25/02/2026 – Xavier Waintal (CEA Grenoble) – “Hybrid between biologically inspired and quantum inspired many-body states“
04/03/2026 – Lee Armstrong – “On the feasibility of Quantum Cryptocurrency Mining Talk”.
11/03/2026 – Alex Appleby – “Local Structure Signature of Transitions in Hybrid Improper Ferroelectric Sr₃Zr₂O₇“
18/03/2026 – Chris Weeks – “Quantum advantage in the graph domination game”

dates between 15/04/2026 – 17/06/2026
17/04/2026 – Open Discussion: planning & requests for content / Gunnar Möller: Introduction to Tensor Networks & Algorithms I
22/04/2026 – Gunnar Möller: Introduction to Tensor Networks & Algorithms II
29/04/2026 – Manuel Pino García, Salamanca: “Superconducting Quantum Circuits Beyond the Qubit Approximation”
06/05/2026 – Xuan-Chen Liu (Northeastern London): TBD
13/05/2026 – Prof Ginestra Bianconi – “Gravity from Entropy”
20/05/2026 – MPhys Project Presentations by B. Wilson, K. Haggag & T. Vlassi – Note Unusual Location: Stacey Lecture Theatre 2
27/05/2026 – Sam Carr: Could YOU invent the Schrödinger equation (history of how Schrödinger came up with his famous equation 100 years ago this year)
03/06/2026 – Naivasha Williams: Hermitian Matrix Product Operators on Quantum Computers
10/06/2026 – Sam Carr: Introduction to Green’s functions and Feynman diagrams in many-body physics
17/06/2026 – Laurens Vanderstraeten (University of Brussels)- Introduction to uniform tensor networks

10/07/2026 – Yu-Chin Tzeng (National Yang Ming Ciao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan) – “Dissociation of bulk and entanglement phase transitions in the Haldane Phase” – Ingram 234 @ 11am.