Physics of Quantum Materials Discussion Group, 2020-2021

Term 1: from 28 September, 2020 to 18 December, 2020 on Mondays at 11:00am

  • 28/09/20 – Introduction to the group and welcome for new members
  • 05/10/20 – Sudeep Kumar Ghosh — “Chiral superconductors”
  • 12/10/20 – Adolfo Del Campo (DIPC/Luxembourg/Univ. of Massachussetts) — “Probing the Universality of Topological Defect Formation in a Quantum Annealer”
  • 19/10/20 – Sebastian Haines (Cambridge) — “Tuning magnetic and polar phase transitions with pressure”
  • 26/10/20 – General discussion
  • 02/11/20 – Aabhaas Mallik (ICTS) — “Possibility of topological superconductivity in experimentally relevant bilayer kagome systems”
  • 09/11/20 – Silvia Ramos — “BERRIES”
  • 16/11/20 – Sam Carr — “Introduction to many-body physics”
  • 23/11/20 – General discussion
  • 30/11/20 – Tym Tula — “Superluminal tunneling”
  • 07/12/20 – George Ferguson — “Investigating the accuracy from quantum computer simulations”  and Holly Mcphillips — “Geometrically- and electronically-driven improper ferroelectrics”
  • 14/12/20 – General discussion

Term 2: from 18 January, 2021 to 9 April, 2021 on Mondays at 1:00pm

  • 18/01/2021 – Jorge Quintanilla — “Playing God playing dice-I”
  • 25/01/2021 – Jorge Quintanilla — “Playing God playing dice-II”
  • 01/02/2021 – Curt Von Keyserlingk (University of Birmingham) — “Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport”
  • 08/02/2021 – Sudeep K. Ghosh — “Unconventional superconductivity in Z2 topological metals”
  • 15/02/2021 – Jorge Quintanilla — “Tutorial — Superconducting quantum computing”
  • 22/02/2021 – Leonardo Benini (University of Warwick) — “Loschmidt echo singularities as dynamical signatures of strongly localized phases”
  • 01/03/2021 – Bruno Tomasello — “Emergent electromagnetism in frustrated magnets”
  • 08/03/2021 – Masudul Haque (Maynooth University) — “Eigenstate thermalization, random matrices and (non)local operators in many-body systems”
  • 15/03/2021 – Lucy Clark (University of Birmingham) — “Exploring a New Family of S = ½ Kagomé Antiferromagnets”
  • 22/03/2021 – Eran Ginossar (University of Surrey) — “Topological phases of a dimerized Fermi-Hubbard model for dopant nano-lattices in silicon”
  • 29/03/2021 – Nigel R Cooper (University of Cambridge) — “Fragility of Time-Reversal Symmetry Protected Topological Phases”

Term 3: from 10 May, 2021 to 18 June, 2021 on Mondays at 1:00pm

  • 10/05/2021 – Silvia Ramos — “Directional order in IrTe2”
  • 17/05/2021 – Chiranjib Mitra (IISER Kolkata, India) — “Topological Transport and Topological Photo-Current in 3D Topological Insulators”
  • 24/05/2021 – Henry Sheehy — “Theories of multiorbital superconductivity to be tested via scanning tunnelling microscopy”
  • 07/06/2021 – Sudhansu S. Mandal, IIT Kharagpur, India — “Topological Structures in Chiral Magnets”
  • 14/06/2021 – Shovan Dutta, University of Cambridge, UK — “Hysteretic quantum phase transitions in a strongly-correlated driven optical lattice”