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