Group Meetings Schedule 2013
Jan 8, Zhifang Xu,
Classifying vortices in spin-orbit coupled spinor BECs
Jan 13 (Sunday 9am Pittsburgh time), Kush Saha, Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
Interacting bosons in an optical lattice in the presence of a synthetic gauge potential
Jan 14 (Monday 9:30am Pittsburgh time), Tyler Dodds, University of Toronto
Quantum spin liquids in the absence of spin rotation symmetry: An application to Herbertsmithite
Jan 15 moved to Jan 16
Jan 16 (7pm Pittsburgh time), Huazhou Wei, University of California, Riverside
"Excitonic Phases from Weyl Semi-Metals"
Jan 22, Zhenyu Zhou, Washington University in St. Louis
Heat equation approach to geometric changes of the torus Laughlin-state
Jan 29, Lijun Lang
Edge States and Topological Phases in One-Dimensional Optical Superlattices
Feb 5, no meeting (Liu in NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden)
Feb 12, Bo Liu
Effect of the correlation energy in the normal state of a dipolar Fermi gas
Feb 19, Jin-Long Yu
Quantum phase dynamics of a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate
Feb 26 meeting, moved to Feb 27 Wed 7pm Pittsburgh time (Liu in a Symposium in UT Dallas), Xiaopeng Li
Coexistence of Ferromagnetic and superconducting orders in the LAO/STO interface
March 5, Zhifang Xu
Symmetry and Topology of BECs with Spin
March 12, Xiaopeng Li, Tuesday 8:30pm (pitt time)
Practice talk for APS march Meeting
March 26, Lijun Lang, Tuesday 8:00pm (pitt time) (new shedule starting from this week)
Majorana fermions and phase transitions in 1D superlattices
April 2, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00pm (pitt time)
BEC-BCS Crossover of spin-1/2 �sp-band Fermi gases in two dimensional optical lattice
April 9, Jin-Long Yu, Tuesday 8:00pm (pitt time)
Spin-dependent hexagonal lattices and related valley physics
April 16, Xiaopeng Li, Tuesday 8:00pm (pitt time)
Quantum geometries---Berry curvature and Riemannian metric
April 23, Kai Sun, Tuesday 12:00pm-1:00pm (pitt time)
Adiabatic continuity between Hofstadter and Chern insulator states
April 23, Lijun Lang, Tuesday 8:00pm (pitt time)
Floquet theory and Floquet topological insulators
April 30, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
p+ip superfluid state of spin-1/2 �sp-band Fermi gases in two dimensional optical lattice
May 7 Jin-Long Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Quantum geometric tensor and Quantum phase transition
May 14 Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Tuning Effective Hamiltonian: Unitary transformation
May 21 Xiaopeng Li, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Generic Magnetic phases with weak spin-orbital couplings
June 4, Lijun Lang, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Try to find Floquet topological insulators
June 11, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (rescheduled)
p+ip superfluid state of spin-1/2 �sp-band Fermi gases in 2D spin-dependent optical lattice
June 12, Bo Liu, Wed 8:00 pm
p+ip superfluid state of spin-1/2 �sp-band Fermi gases in 2D spin-dependent optical lattice
June 19, Jin-Long Yu, Wed 8:00 pm
Entanglement properties of interacting Kitaev's chain
June 25, Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Simulating spin-orbit coupling with orbitals.
July 2, Jiyao Chen, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Topological Bosonic Mott Insulator
July 10, Xiaopeng Li, Wednesday 8:00 pm
In situ observation of strongly interacting ferromagnetic domains in a shaken optical lattice Ref: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5487
July 16, Lijun Lang, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Periodic driving induced phase transition in 1D superlattices
July 30, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Recent experimental progress in polar molecules Ref: arXiv:1305.5598
Aug 6, Jin-Long Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Matrix product states for 1-d quantum chains
Aug 13, Zhi-Fang Xu, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Spin-orbit-coupled dipolar quantum gases
Aug 20, Xiaopeng Li, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Experimental realization of Hofstadter Hamiltonian with ultracold atoms in optical lattices Refs: arXiv: 1308.0321 (2013) by I. Bloch's group; arXiv 1308:1431(2013) by Ketterle's group
Aug 27, Lijun Lang, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Moving and merging of Dirac points
Sep 3, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Superconducting Vortex Lattices for Ultracold Atoms Ref: arXiv:1302.3504
Sep 10, Jin-Long Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Searching for Topology in 2d Optical Lattices
Sep 17, Zhenyu Zhou, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Floquet Topological insulators
Sep 24, Zhifang Xu Tuesday 8:00pm
Dynamical symmetry breaking in a shaking optical lattice
Oct 1, Jiyao Chen, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Spin‐dependent lattice with spin‐orbit coupling
Oct 8, Li-Jun Lang, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Moving and merging of Dirac points in square lattices with \pi/2 flux
Oct 16, Bo Liu, Wed 8:00 pm (pitt time, rescheduled)
Dirac points with a Fermi gas in a tunable honeycomb lattice Ref: Nature 483, 302-305 (2012)
Oct 22, Jin-Long Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Designing Artificial Magnetic Lattices
Oct 29, Zhenyu Zhou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Periodic Driving on Hofstadter Model
U.S.A Time Change in Fall
Meet on every Tuesday 7pm Pittsburgh time (Wed. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise.
Nov 5 move toNov 7, Zhifang Xu,Thursday 7:00 pm (pitt time) (cancelled, will be rescheduled later)
Nov 12, Jiyao Chen, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Nov 19, Li-Jun Lang, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Extracting the Chern number from the dynamics of a Fermi gas: Implementing a quantum Hall bar for cold atoms (Ref: A. Dauphin and N. Goldman, arXiv:1305.3872)
Nov 26,Bo Liu,Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Transport property in two-dimensional Bose gas Ref: arxiv:1306.4018
Dec 3 move to Dec 5, Jin-Long Yu,Thursday 7:00 pm (pitt time) (rescheduled)
Many faces of Wannier functions
Dec 10, Zhenyu Zhou, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
From Dec 16 to Jan 3, no group meeting.