Group Meetings Schedule 2014

Jan 7, Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Topological flat bands from dipolar spin systems

Jan 13, Peter Zoller (University Innsbruck), Monday 4:30 pm (pitt time)

New Frontiers of Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Ions Location: 102 Thaw Hall

Jan 14, Matthias Troyer(ETH Zürich), Tuesday 2:00 pm (pitt time)

Quantum Annealing and the D-Wave devices Location: Benedum G31

Jan 14, Lijun Lang, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Dimension reduction in periodically kicked models

Jan 16, Peter Zoller (University Innsbruck) Thursday 2:00 pm (pitt time)

New Frontiers of Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Ions Location: 321 Allen Hall

Jan 21, Jinlong Yu, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Topological Bosonic Magnetic Lattices

Jan 28, Bo Liu, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Orbital Ice in p-band

Feb 4, Zhenyu Zhou, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Topological edge modes of periodically driven quantum hall system

Feb 11, no group meeting (see us in DARPA Meeting February 11-12, 2014)

Feb 13, Xiongjun Liu( HKUST and MIT), Thursday 4:30 pm (pitt time)

Manipulating Majorana Zero Modes in Chiral and Time-reversal Invariant Quantum Nanowires Location: 321 Allen Hall

Feb 18, Xiongjun Liu, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Exploring Topological Phases with Cold Atoms

Feb 25, Lijun Lang, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

To generate px+ipy states in periodically driven lattices

Mar 4, No group meeting (APS March Meeting)

U.S.A Time Change in spring

Meet on every Tuesday 8pm Pittsburgh time (Wed. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise.

Mar 11, Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Magnetic ordering in frustrated Kondo Lattice models

Mar 18, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Time crystals

Mar 25, Jinlong Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Dynamics of the topological magnetic lattices

Apr 1, Jiyao chen, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

DMRG study for dipolar bosonic SSH model

Apr 3, Dmitri Feldman (Brown University), Thursday, 4:30 pm (pitt time)

Location: 321 Allen Hall

Apr 8, zhenyu zhou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Topological bands in shaken optical lattice

Apr 14, Leon Balents (University of California at Santa Barbara), Thursday, 4:30 pm (pitt time)

Location: 102 Thaw Hall

Apr 15, Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Bose-Fermi mixtures in optical lattices

Apr 17, Chuanwei Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas), Thursday, 4:30 pm (pitt time)

Search for Majorana Fermions in Spin-Orbit Coupled Superfluids and Superconductors

Apr 22, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Feshbach molecules in spin–orbit coupling Fermi gases

Apr 29, Jinlong Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Dynamics of the topological magnetic lattices (II)

May 6, Jiyao chen, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

SPT phase

May 13, zhenyu zhou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Spin orbital exchange in optical lattice

May 20, Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Spin mixing dynamics in ultracold quantum gases

May 27, Bo Liu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Experimental Determination of the Finite-Temperature Phase Diagram of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose Gas

Jun 3, Jinlong Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Haldane model and Peierls substitution in cold atom systems

Jun 10, No group meeting (KITPC symposium)

Jun 17, Zhenyu Zhou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Spin orbital Liquid

Jun 24, Zhifang Xu Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time) - canceled per speaker's request

Replacement: W. Vincent Liu, "Discussion on group meetings, arXiv selection, etc."

Summer 2014

Meet on every 4 week Tuesday 8pm Pittsburgh time (Wed. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise.

Jul 24, Bo Liu, Thursday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Dicke-type phase transition in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate ref: Nature Communications 5, 4023 (2014)

Aug 19, Haiyuan Zou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Observation of chiral currents with ultracold atoms in bosonic ladders Ref: Nature Physics 10, 588-593 (2014)

Fall 2014

Meet on every Tuesday 8pm Pittsburgh time (Wed. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise.

Aug 26, Jinlong Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Topological magnetic flux lattices

Sep 2, Jiyao Chen, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

SPT phases on spin-1 ladders

Sep 9, Zhenyu Zhou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

spin orbital exchange of p-band fermions

Sep 16, Ahmet keles, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Mott transition in Bosonic two leg ladder under artificial magnetic field

Sep 23, Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Spin-exchange interactions with alkaline earth fermions

Sep 25, Vladimir M. Stojanovic (CMT group, Harvard University), Thursday (pitt time)

Sharp transitions for small polarons: from theory to transmon-based realization

Sep 30, Jianhui Zhou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Seeing the chiral anomaly in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals

Oct 7, Bo Liu, Thursday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Universal dynamics of a degenerate unitary Bose gas Ref: arXiv:1308.3696

Oct 14 Haiyuan Zou, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

What are the orbital and spin orders for spin-1/2 p-bands model on a triangular lattice?

Oct 21, Jinlong Yu, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Topological phase transitions in magnetic lattices

Oct 28, Jiyao Chen, Tuesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)

Spectral and entanglement properties of the bosonic Haldane insulator

U.S.A Time Change in Fall

Meet on every Tuesday 7pm Pittsburgh time (Wed. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise.

Nov 4, Zhenyu Zhou, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Coherent dipolar coupling between two Rydberg atoms at Förster resonance

Nov 11, Zhifang Xu, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Rydberg addressing in ultracold atoms

Nov 18, Ahmet keles, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Observation of Fermi surface deformation in a dipolar quantum gas Ref: Science 345 (6203), 1484

Nov 25, Jianhui Zhou, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Spin responses and effective Hamiltonian for the two dimensional electron gas at oxide interface LaAlO3/SrTiO3

Dec 2, Bo Liu, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Roton-maxon excitation spectrum of Bose condensates in a shaken optical lattice

Dec 9, Haiyuan Zou, Tuesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)

Tensor network algorithms to Kitaev-Heisenberg model and a recent development on Tensor network formulation Ref: J. Iregui, P. Corboz, and M. Troyer PRB90,195102 and G. Evenbly and G. Vidal, arxiv:1412.0732

From Dec 14 to Jan 4, no group meeting